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I ain't gonna lie kinda wish I was OP since I'm obsessed with crowdfunding. Whatever. gently caress IT IM OVER IT  Kickstarter Hall of ShameYour World  Ellwood "Bunky" Bartlett may have won $42 million from the lottery but that's not going to stop him from getting other people to pay for his dream MMO! Your World promises the MMO experience that gamers want: namely, hooker bots. So Goons, what other laughable projects have you seen on Kickstarter? http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-04-03/news/bs-ae-bunky-lottery-20120402_1_lottery-winner-nature-based-religion-reality-show Atheist Shoes http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/120873716/your-world  When even your footprints have to tell people to deal with it  Ron Paul Revolution  Titan of industry wants to make a game about Ron Paul. Uses the cheapest means of creating a cookie cutter game using MelonJS And this is what over $10,000 gets you, the free market works!  The people in Washington need to be held accountable! (but not people who run Kickstarters or anything)  And a word on accountability: Katalyka http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1820893788/katalyka Honestly I feel a little bad ridiculing someone who clearly has mental issues but if this isn't a Kickstarter cautionary tale I don't know what is.  If you want to read the whole insane  here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1820893788/katalyka/posts/239764 I am a unique snowflake and everything I touch is art because I am a http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1394857195/a-giant-ball-pit-in-an-abandoned-house-naturally Truly putting the shame in Hall of Shame Mythic http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/273246798/mythic-the-story-of-gods-and-men Essentially a Frankenstein of plagiarism taken from other Kickstarters and existing games http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/117012-Mythic-Kickstarter-is-a-Scam The first Kickstarter feature film to star an A-lister admired by teenaged girls everywhere (also Lindsay Lohan) The Canyons  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1094772583/the-canyons A NY Times reporter is embedded (in bed with teehee) the production and writes a pretty crazy account of the ordeal http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/here-is-what-happens-when-you-cast-lindsay-lohan-in-your-movie.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 article posted:The next night, the “Canyons” crew was cut to a minimum. It was time to film the four-way. The scene comes at a crucial moment in the movie, when the usually passive Tara turns the tables on Christian and forces him out of his sexual comfort zone. Filmed incorrectly, the scene might win a Razzie. Get it right, and the rest of the film would click into place. And after all that they didn't even get into Sundance. Speaking of bad movies: Finding Sandler http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/findingsandler/finding-sandler  Otherwise nice looking Jewish boy is being super intense about that one time he was a PA on an Adam Sandler movie and missed an opportunity to get a drink with him. He's been beating himself up over it ever since and unfortunately his friends/family keep enabling his stalkery. Hanfree Having the dubious distinction of being the first Kickstarter to have a class action suit against it http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/831303939/hanfree-ipad-accessory-use-the-ipad-hands-free?ref=live http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/22/why-this-jilted-kickstarter-backer-decided-to-sue-why-he-was-right/ Speaking of class action Zioneyez http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zioneyez/eyeztm-by-zioneyez-hd-video-recording-glasses-for/comments http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2012/08/20/the-truth-about-kickstarter-and-zioneyez/2/ Vaporware for augmented glasses. Not only have they not delivered, but they are in danger of being lapped by Google Glass at this point. Backers were so pissed about the perception that the owners took the money and ran (pictures of them vacationing in Thailand didn't help) that they created a forum just to air out grievances Code Hero  KS for a game that teaches you coding. Awesome right? Except the KS was never for the game (which had never actually been started). The KS was to fund him so he could go ask for funding. http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/13/code-hero-the-dangers-of-a-kickstarter-success-story/ http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/08/code-heros-buggy-kickstarter-has-backers-preparing-to-draw-lega/ Check the comments, it's another example of backer support going south very fast And for those who think there is no redeeming value to KS: Kickstarter Benchmarks Regardless of how you felt about the quality of the results, these were major turning points for Kickstarter Legendary adventure games creator Tim Schafer and his company Double Fine start the KS craze http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fine-adventure Currently 4th highest funded in Games. Video Game High School SA Forums superstar Freddie Wong managed to fund his web series for $273,000+ Season 2 recently succeeded funding and remains the highest funded in Film & Video Incidentally the 2nd most in that category is The Goon Faster Than Light I believe these guys are goons. FTL became one of the biggest and first gaming success stories and is currently available on Steam. http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/two-men-200000-and-a-successful-kickstarter-how-ftl-did-everything-right Special Wait And SeeOuya http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/ouya Open source console that works with Android. Or something. I think jury's still out and if it will truly fail like a lot of people are thinking it will. Ad wizards: Hey you know what we'll do? We'll make our own Kickstarter type page!OtonX http://www.otonx.com/ Hey let's take a page from the Phantom console! Also Kickstarter that's cool with the kids these days Black Isle's Truly shameful beg for donations This is famous game developer Black Isle ONLY IN NAME. They had the nerve to make their own KS style homepage begging for donations, and not even for the production of the game itself. So they can go shop it around, much like Code Hero. It's a KS for a KS. Using the Black Isle name at that is truly disgraceful and it seems like they are suckering people in too (they have a whole leaderboard for donors). http://blackisle.com/ The one silver lining is we get this lovely, dated pitch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV1GH_ZTs90 Actually the real silver lining is the spiritual successor to BI, Obsidian is the second most funded in the Games category http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity?ref=category If anyone has more classic horrible KS's I can add to this post And that OP, is how you make an OP (drops the mic) Alan Smithee has a new favorite as of 08:24 on Mar 5, 2013 |
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Volume posted:Something I've always wondered about this; is there any accountability? If the person getting the money cuts and runs with it all is there anything anyone can do? I would imagine Kickstarter has something in their T.O.S that says "Screw you, we're not held liable" to protect themselves. Kickstarter washes its hands, essentially you have to go to the backers only comments section and rally people into a class action suit
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I watched the original VGHS, it was basically a Cartoon Network Original Movie only with enough blood and swears to ensure it could never actually be shown on TV. Well overhead was basically taken care of by KS and whoever sponsored them. It's now on Netflix and Freddie's channel/homepage and dvdray so basically same way he makes money on his other videos Alan Smithee has a new favorite as of 03:31 on Mar 5, 2013 |
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...of SCIENCE! posted:The guys who kickstarted Tropes vs Men in Videogames has taken the money and run. I think this commenter said it best: "whiny manbabies turn out not to be very decent people, surprising no one"
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Install Gentoo posted:Uhhhh just telling people that something is a scam is not enough to keep people from being suckered by it. If you leave up links to the scammers websites and stuff where they can invite people into other scams, then some people are going to ignore the warning you put up and go blindly ahead to be scammed further. But transparency is supposedly the only leverage donors have. If they lose their backer-only comment page where are they supposed to compare notes/organize a class action?
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Install Gentoo posted:Literally anywhere else online. Really organizing on the backers only comments page of a scam project is the least effective way to organize. But what if they didn't have the foresight to set up an offsite forum? I know you're going to say "idiots", I'm just saying sweeping under the rug is hardly what I consider "protecting people"
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Verdugo posted:As someone who is fighting Kickstarter, Amazon, Paypal, and a "developer" for a refund, there's nothing. Kickstarter has it in their TOS that a developer needs to provide a product or a refund, but that's it, and a TOS isn't legally enforceable anyway. So if a developer decides that you don't deserve a refund, you don't get one, and if they cut and run, you're out the cash. As long as they dick you along past the 105 day limit on Amazon Payments refunds there is no recourse outside of a lawsuit. Which project if you don't mind me asking
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afterhours posted:I'm still reading through the originally Awful Kickstarter Thread. Every 30 pages, the zombie theme park goon seems to pop-up and whine about how goons don't understand how totally awesome and safe his idea is. I'm ready to skip ahead, how did his tale end? Nothing came of it
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SovietSpyGuy posted:I think this one qualifies as awful: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1809021552/the-new-black?ref=category Clearly you just don't get it and quite frankly I'm just embarassed for you *DJ's trap music at a gallery opening for instagram photos*
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I thought they were actually gonna sell "air clothes" ala the New Black
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I haven't watched it yet so I can't comment on the quality of the vids themselves but I don't think anyone was going to. I can kinda see why she wouldn't want to see 100 pages of "dont you think its bad for men too you dumb slut men's rights now!" And "bitches back in the kitchen and make a sandwich like my mom"
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Machai posted:So, what? A different shade of black? Wouldn't that be uhhhhh grey? Maybe a reddish-black? How much you wanna bet he goes "that's right, this was a self-effacing performance art piece that was meant to draw attention to the self-important people creating garbage on crowdfunding sites! You are all my puppets! But thanks for funding my campaign I'm gonna go ironically do coke off of a hooker's ironic rear end in a top hat" Srice posted:I feel like the fact that the "Tropes vs Men in Gaming" guy ran off with the money is a heck of a lot more amusing than any Youtube comment on the video would be anyways. Channy Channers trusting each other to fund a campaign of malice is up there with Bitcoiners trusting each other with the Free Market Alan Smithee has a new favorite as of 08:09 on Mar 8, 2013 |
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Also it's been two decades since he made anything good. I'm guessing that quote is from the gaming KS thread? Also I'm worried that they make a new baldurs gate and its just full of terrible Poser models
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senrath posted:No, the post he quoted is from earlier on this page.  I'll be in my bed chambers whipping myself
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...of SCIENCE! posted:People pitched a fit because Dante in the Devil May Cry remake had hair that was like the developer's, so in this day and age having Garriot's self-insert in the game is going to cause riots. To be fair that pretty much was the only explanation for why it was such a terribly written re-imagining.
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Dudes stop asking questions. Don't you want to see games by gamers for gamers!? It's going to be on the Ouya. The OUYA
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Careful folks. You dont want to end up on gamers.text
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I think the fact that none of the Civitas guys have been tarred and feathered to nearly the same scale is telling, not to continue this debate. To be fair the same crowd backing it isn't the same people who trolled and yet the trolls are silent on this one. Maybe ill change my mind when the punching flash game of these so called devs rears its head
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Noni posted:This is the awful Kickstarter thread, not the "Tearfully Sad Comment on the State of Public Funding for Scientific History, Education, and Research" thread. Jesus, that's depressing. It's even more depressing when you realize that they probably chose Indiegogo instead of Kickstarter specifically because they think it's going to fail and would rather just have the flexible funding (nonprofits are fine on Kickstarter as long as they're not after general funds but money for a project). If it makes you feel any better, think of it this way. You're working at Walmart slaving away for minimum wage and your professor is making more by panhandling outside of it than you are working there.
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I haven't read in depth but I think the deal is since WB retains rights this KS is a shot in the dark to impress them, the idea being they will more than match funds if the interest check gets their attention. A lot of people are crying foul because they think the popular football jocks are honing in on the cute dorky chick who let down her hair and took off the glasses. Crowdfunding is always going to be a last resort measure for Hollywood studios. Have you heard of Hollywood accounting? Do you really think they even want you anywhere near their books? My only issue really is that this KS in particular is essentially a pitch KS and does not promise anything so much as the time of day from WB. The cast and crew may be on board but rights will always be an issue, let's not pretend this is going to lead to Twin Peaks season 3 anytime soon Young Freud posted:Maybe Mitchell Hurwitz should follow suit so he can get that Arrested Development movie made. I'm gonna be an iconoclast and say I want to see a The Killing Kickstarter. Because TVIV members will drink themselves to death Alan Smithee has a new favorite as of 14:01 on Mar 14, 2013 |
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If only Bob Crane were still alive, he could Kickstart a whole bunch of Hogan's Hoebags sex tapes to prove to Vivid there's interest.
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I hate to actually ask what twitter thinks but what have people been saying?
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To each their own I guess but, I don't really...get Homestuck. It's not that I actively dislike it's just whenever I open it up to see what the hubbub is about I can never get past the first few screens. Just seems like one big inside joke
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Miss Kalle posted:I assume it's because it's taking the piss out of some of these types of Kickstarters? But it's still a dumb thing to put on there in the first place (hence the 'somewhat'). Plus his name is Brody which is infinitely worse
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Waffleman_ posted:And of course, the very first thing you see when playing the video is these guys. Oh lord I want to put two  under them
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So this is making the rounds, amusing enough http://printedinternet.tumblr.com/post/44794042812
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Cavepunk: because Flintstones had the true vision of the future
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Ok see now I'm genuinely curious, when someone does a super meta self-aware ironicfunder, what happens when the honeymoon is over and people realize Emperor Clothing Co. LLC is just an empty office building with a disconnected phone. On some level it might not be much different than some bullshit dada milking installation in a modern art gallery that's literally a plate of poo poo that the artist was paid thousands for. Only in this case the gallery is Kickstarter.
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DoctorPresident posted:I guess he is just trying to make fast money and thought that slapping a meme on something would be the easiest way to do it. If there's any hope left in this world it's that meme shirts aren't universally funded like iphone stuff
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Pomp posted:I'm pretty certain the kid doesn't exist. I want to make a bunch of Kickstarters in the voice of a cat.
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Beanpants posted:There is a mea culpa there in the updates section as well. Looks like they're going scorched earth on the whole project: "We were naive, privileged, and stupid." Looks like someone checked their privilege 
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Honestly the whole thing seems fishy, not once do any of the family members show up and the whole presentation is done using relatively professional motion graphics. It just doesn't strike me as the real deal
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Waffleman_ posted:Drinking Dom P Out Of A Diaper got shut down because of the controlled substances involved. hahah what? Didn't they have some KS for the champagne and piano? Granted they didnt drink it
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Manuel Calavera posted:Probably the sending the diaper if someone bid on that. Since there'd still be alcohol present. Honestly I'm more bothered by the idea of someone who'd buy that diaper
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What do you suppose the over/under is on someone finding the real woman in question and her going "umm what Kickstarter"?
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I remember Riley getting mad that Double Fine had been a success while her game bombed and citing it as a blow to social justice. Now Double-Fine just made one of the co-stars of one of the most anticipated games of the year be a woman of color. A cis-gendered colored woman  NO JUSTICE
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Pastrymancy posted:Some dude tries to pass off what is essentially legos as an original, 3D printed product. People call him out. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gently caress-you-all posted:I thought I had a great idea here. Just about the only thing that wasn't changed into a "gently caress you all" is the pitch video edit: Oh lord it gets better $1 Kiss my rear end. Only $1!! 0 claimed $10 Too little too late I put curse upon you house. Something with spiders. 0 claimed $50 HA! If you're not willing to spend $1 you're not going to even consider this. 0 out of 4 claimed $100 "Seriously?" "I need to put food on the table and gas in the car. I can't drop money on a stupid internet thing." 0 out of 5 claimed $14,750 Bite the BIG one. I never really expected to reach this goal. They aim for the moon and miss, you'll wind up among the stars... $2500 would have made a good portion of this idea happen -- as I detailed in the blogs no one read. 0 out of 1 claimed
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And what does this 12 year old boy who shouldn't be allowed to have an Xbox Live account let alone one on Indiegogo look like? Oh.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I really want to know what kinds of families Goons grew up in where brothers and sisters bickering and teasing each other (while still helping each other out in the end, however begrudgingly) is an outrageous sign of weakness and the measure of a parent is how much of a death-grip they have on their childrens' behavior. Like, even the most Exactly! And to prove it I, George Bluth Sr, entrepreneur extraordinaire, plan to Kickstart my new line of Boyfights videos! 
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shut-in only child can't be that disillusioned about how families are, right?