So i have been on sites like kickstarter and indiegogo and backed a few projects and i have noticed development of games fall into these categories (there are probably more though)
Development from scratch perhaps with concept or a idea that is either so new or based on something that most publishers would not touch such as pillars of eternity, kingdom come or project nimbus. This i am a fan .I get the games i really love and do not see but because they are starting from scratch the community can often help and influence the design.
Games that have been started perhaps the basic engine is there and design but they either do not have the man power or budget to finish or perhaps it is just a few people working in there spare time so it is taking to long like with grim dawn and beasts fury. Again i can get behind this same as before you see the game grow.
Games that need the final polishing off .Game is near enough complete but due to lack of funds they do not have quite enough to get the game finished like project giana. Now this i am not to a big of fan of and while in the end it is more likely you will get a finished game what you see pretty much is the finished project nothing much will change.Community feedback will not alter what we see in the game as it is to close to completion. Now granted most of these type of projects only just make there budget but i would like to see if those games got far more money then requested they would push the development back to improve it more.
Now that final one i mentioned there is also some games that i really wonder why they need a kickstarter as they plan to release them so soon after funded one example was slain which was funded last month and planned to be released very soon.
In the end i feel funding games purely to act as a preorder is not really in the spirit of what it was set up for i feel some are just using the sites to act as there advertisement for it.
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