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speaking of scams..Areal's kickstarter earned ~65k (somehow, it was at 35k for weeks), but was was suspended 14 hours ago. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1577656602/areal holy crap update 25..they link pictures of all the people they call 'trolls' for calling them out. like personal information and such. Wtf? I've never seen someone stoop that low.. Edit: and apparently they were trying to get people to think that Putin himself emailed them about the game? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1577656602/areal/posts/919596 Autechresaint has a new favorite as of 07:39 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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Mirificus posted:West Games has posted an official statement regarding the suspension of their Areal Kickstarter campaign to Areal's Facebook page. They've resorted to asking for donations directly. The part about the donations after the vice article is a lie. The kicktraq shows only a few donations, yet it gained 20k, a stark contrast to the start of the project.
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Alan Smithee posted:Apparently the Air BNB brothers are at it again, with a new game despite not delivering the old one And...it was just suspended. Man that whole renter situation seems like a nightmare.
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Well, it's official, Neal Stephenson's 500k kickstarter is officially dead. 500k to come up with the conclusion that "it wasn't very fun to play." http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/19/6531001/neal-stephenson-swordfighting-game-is-officially-dead
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Edward_Tohr posted:To be fair, I'd rather give my money to the guys who are openly fleecing me than repeat the "We got more than ten times our funding goal, so let's ask for even more money, then get another publisher on-board to cut our costs further" fiasco from Mighty Number 9. Didn't know they also had two more pushes for 200k each in 2014. That's pretty gross. From wikipedia: " On 6 July 2014, there was another crowd funding campaign for bonus content. The first stretch goal is to raise $200,000 for full English voice acting in the game.[18] On 30 October 2014, Comcept asked via their kickstarter page for an additional $198,000 to complete a DLC stage introducing Beck's rival: Ray.[19]"
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Zybourne Clock posted:"What kind of backer reward would be appropriate for those who sponsor my Blender classes?" asked Mark to himself while he stuffed his face with another piece of ostrich hickory smoked jerky. According to his Kickstarter profile, guy lives in Sarasota, which happens to be home to one of the biggest and best computer animation schools in America.
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theflyingorc posted:I hadn't watched this video until just now, and it's unbelievable how much this doesn't work. he's literally taking 4-5 seconds per hair. And yet, since posting that video, their funding has sky rocketed to over 2 million. In fact, they have made 1.5 million after posting that video. It's terrifying how gullible people are, even when shown how bad the product is by the very same people selling it. http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/skarp/the-skarp-laser-razor-21st-century-shaving/#chart-daily Autechresaint has a new favorite as of 20:51 on Sep 30, 2015 |
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Non Serviam posted:The laser razor is nearing 4 millions. Have they bothered with anymore updates since 6, or are they bunkering down because they know if they just stay quiet for two more weeks they'll walk away with millions free and clear. I swear kickstarter has become the living embodiment of ptbarnum. Edit: haha. They had that one update a week in when they were at 1.5 million. Way to be supportive of the idiot saps funding your razor, skarp. (Just noticed skarp is an anagram of skrap and kraps...really makes you think) Autechresaint has a new favorite as of 21:54 on Oct 7, 2015 |
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CJacobs posted:http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/cicret.asp I am the carefully placed camera that makes sure to never show the whole device on the wrist in the shot.
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dwarf74 posted:Oh, the skarp KS was cancelled by Kickstarter. What a surprise. I have to say that my faith in kickstarter has been a little restored for them to suspend skarp. Good on them. I bet they'll move over to indiegogo asap.
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Noyemi K posted:Morpheus stunt double wishes to go to japan to get his series animated He wants money to fly to Japan to 'knock on doors' to get japanese studios to bid on his idea? Why can't he do that from the states, or better yet find an American studio to animate it.
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stringball posted:Also would indiegogo shut this down based on they got deleted from kickstarter? This is the same site that got the impossible Ritot watch funded, so I doubt they'll do anything about this.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There were 22,252 successful KS projects in 2014. They don't say how many were launched in total but according to their historical data only about 35% of projects have ever been successful so we'd expect there were roughly 64,000 projects launched in 2014, or an average of 175 new projects every day. If each KS campaign lasted for a month there'd be an average of 5,250 live campaigns on any given day, most of which will be active in some way (only 4% of all KS projects received no pledges) and thus a potential risk of How much of a cut does KS and amazon get out of that 500,000,000?
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Surprise..the Coolest is out of money. http://www.oregonlive.com/window-shop/index.ssf/2016/02/coolest_cooler_ran_out_of_cash.html 13 million raised on kickstarter...
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If there is any proof that kickstarter simply just does not vet projects at all, this is one.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Did Triton disappear from Indiegogo again? It looks like their campaign page has been replaced with a Coming Soon splash page, but they completed their funding a week or two ago. Apparently it was canceled, and they put up a new one with disclaimers. https://m.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/comments/4cy81f/triton_campaign_canceled_refunds_promised_we_did/
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Cockmaster posted:A year and a half ago, someone tried doing a Kickstarter for yet another questionable attempt at revolutionizing personal transportation. It got some interest but not enough to meet their goal: Magically at half the price. Wonder how they pulled that off
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Doggles posted:I'm always torn whether to post these here or in the gaming Kickstarter thread. A year and a half is nothing..this one is over two and a half years late, but actually is still in production at least. The guy shows up at all the VR events in Austin. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1944625487/omni-move-naturally-in-your-favorite-game/description
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speaking of impossible projects, looks like Skarp is still not out. Some of the backers are finally coming to their senses after a year of delays and 3 months of silence: "Seems like kickstarter was right, and we the backers are suckers ! " https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-skarp-laser-razor-21st-century-shaving#/comments
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Veotax posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1822840718/aopun-never-touch-a-door-handle-ever-again-relaunc?ref=profile_backed ok one or two mismailed envelopes with nothing in them in a batch of thousands I can see, but there appears to be a problem with these people. "Hey Aopun, I too received an empty envelope. Opened it at the post office counter and the staff thought it was a bit funny receiving just and empty envelope from overseas. Think it is a bit funny also but could actually pls send me one this time  Cheers James (Australia)""Hey Aopun : ) I too received an empty box. : (" "Sorry double post, but is there someone to chat about for getting an empty box?" "Hi I got an empty envelope from Canada as well." "Empty enveloppe! How can you send so many with nothing in them?" "Empty for me as well." "I received my package today....and it's empty. No Aopun." ...and so on... there were only 350 backers..how could you not hand check each package?
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spooky like this! posted:They're just selling a product that already exists. That they didn't make right?
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"Sr. International Customer Service Liaison" all the way down... That is quite the work experience to give me confidence that this man knows how to design a mmo.
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C.M. Kruger posted:It's a bluetooth speaker... with a smoke machine and a giant action figure on it! Well at least it won't... $200k raised out of $20k, wtf.
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13Pandora13 posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/835422767/the-super-patriotic-dating-simulator?ref=recs&ref=discovery From the $5000 tier: "This tier does NOT include a copy of The Super Patriotic Dating Simulator. If you want to buy the game, add an extra $15 to your pledge."
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What's the reward for the longest video game grift, other than StarCitizen? Because the Two Guys from Andromeda are still stringing people along 8 years after their original pitch, and 7 years after they were supposed to release. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaceventure/two-guys-spaceventure-by-the-creators-of-space-que/posts Note the last update before March 2020 was in june 2019.
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Someone is selling $400 sheets of lenticular plastic as an 'invisibility shield' https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/invisibility-shield/invisibility-shield $250,000 raised so far... It is featured in 'projects we love at kickstarter' and is advertised all over youtube. edit: wasn't facebook, it's youtube that i keep getting ads for it.. Autechresaint has a new favorite as of 20:36 on Apr 7, 2022 |
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