Originally posted by grvmpybear
The only Nintendo games I play today are those in the Zelda franchise. With that being said, I wish Zelda would dump Nintendo and realease on multiple consoles. Nintendos systems just aren't up to par, and are holding the series back.

Quoted for the lols.

"First, to make something clear: We’re not going doing everything completely from scratch from the ground up! That’s would be, to put it mildly, suicidal. We’re using someone else’s physics engine."

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13861848/camelot-unchained/posts/444733

Originally posted by Phelcher
Yes... kickstarter projects get community support.. that doesnt neccesarilly mean everyone who donates/funds one is brainwashed, or overly biased.

Of course not, and I have never stated that everyone who backs a project are biased. Furthermore, there is nothing wrong with wanting something to succeed.

To illustrate my point with a not-so-far-fetched example; If a company fails to deliver something in time for the third time in a row, that would clearly be a warning sign when it comes to whether to put trust in that company or not. If you already are commited to the company, then chances are you will make up excuses for them. "They want to polish every last bit of detail." etc.

There is no doubt that Kickstarter is an effective tool for game studios and developers to gain money in order to fund their projects, but perhaps an even stronger contribution to the projects comes with the side-effect of backing a project, namely the things that happen in the head of a backer. I am talking of course of the psychological biases that can follow an investment of some sort.

This phenomena is fairly new in the gaming industry (since Kickstarter has only been around for a few years), but has been studied for decades in the cognitive sciences and behavioral economics. For example, since none of us happily admits that we have made poor decision the first thing that may reveal itself is the classic confirmation bias, which is the tendency to look for, favor and be overly persuaded by information that confirm ones initial impressions, while at the same time dismissing information which tends to disprove said impressions.  If we also weigh in the endowment effect (the tendency to consider something you own or have invested in to be worth more than it would be if you hadn't invested in it), and loss aversion (the tendency to feel more pain when losing X amount of money than satisfaction felt when gaining something of value X), it's easy to see that backers rationality are at risk of becoming skewed.

All in all, this helps to create a legion of fanboys. And my guess is that the "work" done by these fanboys are worth just as much for the project as the actual funding itself, whether it's about trash-talking someone who has questioned the progress of the games development or just spreading the word about the game.

From a developers perspective, I think that's where the ingenuity really lies with running a Kickstarter campaign.

I will also sign this.

What worries me a bit is when Mark Jacobs saids the game will be "focused solely on tri-realm combat".