Cliffski's Blog - The kickstarter reality.
But this is not *the* new publishing model, far from it. RPS noted that the developers ‘don’t have a publisher breathing down their necks’. Really? Maybe they have 10,000 publishers now, impatient, possibly wanting contradictory stuff (almost definitely…in fact), and not restrained by the politeness of scheduled milestone meetings behind closed doors. I hope it goes well, but it could get messy.
Plus the developer is boxed into a corner, they know exactly what they have to do with that money. This is not always a good thing. I ship maybe half the games I start. Gratuitous Tank Battles was not the game I intended to make. I intended to make a life-sim game, then abandoned it to make an RTS, then it morphed into GTB.
Sepharo wrote on Feb 13, 2012, 14:10:
I'd give money to Will Wright, possibly Spector, but definitely not Molyneux or Garriot. Molyneux would never deliver an actual game if he was given free reign it'd be 3DRealms all over again only probably shorter as he'd run out of funds much earlier. Garriot's interested in MMOs and browser/mobile/social as far as I know, which aren't my cup.