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Zeph posted...

Oh man the comment section of this kickstarter, wtf happened lmao, also guessing those people copy pasting the refund thing aint getting shit back

this is the tl;dr

Dude announces new indie JRPG featuring AAA experience devs
Red Flag #1: Identities of some devs are unknown. This means some people expressed interest in working but were uncertain or had concerns that would cause them to walk away from the project. The KS managers however had no qualms about listing their accomplishments as part of the job history when they weren't even officially part of the team.
Red Flag #2: AAA games listed pedigree intentionally obfuscated who they were bringing over for those games. They cited Metal Gear Solid 5 in lots of places but they actually meant "Donna Burke," which I'm not faulting her for any of this, btw, I'm sure she's a wonderful person, but she ain't a game developer man come on.
Red Flag #3: Unrealistic budget, completely bloated stretch goals, and THREE stupid $10,000 pledge tiers. All art for the game is concept art. Zero gameplay footage. Not even the "I made it in an afternoon" shit the guys who launched Red Ash put together. There was never at any point a game.

What ended up happening: one of the unannounced guys was the programmer. He didn't like the offer he got to work on the game so he walked. They had no one to replace him. Nobody wanted to replace him presumably for the same reasons. The money just all got pissed away as they stubbornly insisted that the game development was still ongoing for years despite not even one line of code having ever been written.

I kinda wished I'd backed it at $1 level just to get access to the forums and see what's going on in there.