Op Ed

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.

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Beamer, you're forgetting that these Kickstarter projects aren't meant to appeal to millions of people. They're specifically targeted towards a niche audience, where tastes tend to be pretty similar. I'm pretty sure all old-school CRPG fans agree that PST was awesome and that a spiritual successor would be equally awesome. Therefore, if Obsidian made a spiritual successor to PST, these consumers would be happy. Would Mass Effect or Skyrim fans be happy? Probably not, but they likely wouldn't even care about the Kickstarter in the first place so their opinions would be irrelevant.
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