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Akaneiro - "100% Finished"

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by RPGWatch, Jan 9, 2013.

  1. RPGWatch

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    [​IMG]American McGee has written to Kotaku to take issue with with their reporting of his Akaneiro Kickstarter. It appears he wasn't comfortable with them saying the campaign was to "finish" Akaneiro:

    "The game is 100% finished," he wrote. "The company is not out of money. The project was completed on time, on budget and will be shipped this month (Jan 2013.) It has been in Closed Beta with 25k people having run through it since late last year."

    McGee also addressed the line "we're out of time and money to do so," which has since been removed from their Kickstarter.

    "When the Akaneiro team says they are 'out of money/time' it just means they came to the natural end of their development cycle on that project," McGee told me. "The KS campaign would allow them to extend that-something we'd ask a publisher to consider were we funded that way. We're not, so we ask the audience instead."

    I asked McGee to clarify this: if the game is 100% finished, why does the Kickstarter say that the team feels "some key features are missing"? Why start a Kickstarter at all?

    "'What's been achieved both artistically and mechanically is fantastic... but it's just not enough to call the game complete, to satisfy our fans or ourselves,'" McGee wrote, citing his Kickstarter page. "THIS is the main idea. We're not satisfied. We'd like to take the game further and make it better. In the days when we were funded by a publisher, we would have asked them to review our ideas for additional features and approve (or not) a longer development cycle. 99% of the time they would have said 'no.'"​

    Clear as mud. The campaign is currently at $47k / $200k, so contributing to a finished F2P game doesn't seem to be a hurdle.
     
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    Interesting. I never realized something could be 100% finished and yet not complete. Thanks for clearing that up, Mr. McGee! :thumb:
     
    Splunge, Jan 9, 2013
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    Obviously by 100% finished, he meant by the usual shipping standard of bug-filled and incomplete. :lol:
     
    Blackthorne TA, Jan 9, 2013
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    BTA nails it. :lol:
     
    Taluntain, Jan 9, 2013
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    Imo this whole thing is a travesty for the Kickstarter idea.. they bring a finished? Free2P(l)ay game (e.g. something you don´t own, but have to pay for ongoing) to a platform, which should help projects to be realised.
     
    Nekator, Jan 10, 2013
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    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    And they're already at $55k! No recession in the gaming industry...
     
    Taluntain, Jan 10, 2013
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