Banner Saga immediately made fun of codex on other sites the second they got any criticism, and refused to come back, and used it as an excuse to ignore REAL criticism.
And why shouldn't they. If their game is casual junk and sucks people will eventually laugh about
them. If it turns out to be great, in that case I don't mind to admit I was wrong.
Because it's extremely dishonest to behave the way they did. They sidestepped all the criticism and pretended that they got the treatment that these guys have gotten to an extent, name calling and mindless trolling. So what do you call someone who does that?
Ignoring all the valid criticisms then finding an excuse to ding dong bannu hey it's just like bioware PR.
When you challenge someone's competence and ability to do something, how do you expect them to react?
LOL. In every professional situation people will challenge your competence and ability - until you prove it. Why do people prepare for job interviews, exams, business meetings or scientific lectures? Why should it be easier when you apply for 200,000$ risk free venture capital?
And you should come off your high horse when you do this. Undergratutes who hold their first presentation can't talk like one of the professors. Well, some will do, but they will be made to regret it soon. To use the analogy, someone who just created a kickstarter profile should not instantly talk like he is the CEO of Google. Not if all he has done is call some friends, made photoshopped imagery and conceived a figure that would greatly please him.
If someone pulls a power trip in an interview and becomes that confrontational it's a crap place to work and I'd walk out (and have).
I guess I'm the only one to walk out of an interview, but 99% of the time I find interviews pleasant and pleasurable. I don't mind getting questions about my knowledge because I know what I'm doing and enjoy talking about my work.
Who does? But you provide whatever you can even for areas you are weak on. So you can't provide a functional game, fine. You bring up your education and show some of your work. Which is exactly what studio fawn did, but no for them it's shit.
What are they supposed to say when someone asks "why should you get a free ride?". Then you say "Well, I went to school 3 years and have been working really hard to perfect my art since then. Here's some samples. I'm really excited about this opportunity and have been planning this out for 2 years now, just look at my art. Heck you can even look up my graphical novel, which is related to the game!"
"3 years?! You can learn art in 2 months! You can learn programming in 2 months! Here's 50 examples of self taught art with NO TRAINING AT ALL!!! What kind of entitled bitch are you?"
"Well look guy I think my art is pretty good and I worked hard on it. Also I plan to give every single person who supports us now a special relationship and insider knowledge of everything we do. We will really take care of our customers out of gratitude."
A couple posts above mine someone even complains about this nice post. Sounds sincere and pretty nice to me. Not the kind of song and dance from the ipad guy or from BS, which both seem to be more than a bit dodgy/full of it.
Part of a KS is to see if it's worth spending time in this direction. Maybe you won't get the KS done but if you get some good feedback and not "eat it, pussy loser, ball-less faggot" maybe you will make a better one later but now I doubt they'll try again.
And it's not in the category of "make me a game" like some people, there is work done. It's not bad at all, certainly better than anything not made by a big studio in a KS the codex has covered so far.
All these guys that made these classic games had as little or less to show when they got their first gaming jobs. Many of them much less. So again is this a sequel enabler or a kickstarter? It seems to be the case we'll get nothing out of this but nostalgic rehashes, cash grabs and games that never materialize.
I have doubts about some of the KS projects. I don't think the people involved are all worthless crooks, though. Banner Saga is the closest fit to that so far.
I am not defending Banner Saga but this is ludicrous. There is already a combat demo, which they call "beta". They are definitely not crooks or morons who squander the money. What irks me though is that they got too much money and too easily, I think it could have done with much less when it became clear that Bannu is a casual game.
The issue is they came along saying hey guys we have turn based combat, we believe in old school RPGs and strategy games, and here's a ridiculously big list of awesome games we are inspired by. Now here you go, here's uh, some kind of game. Well, there will be romances. And an orchestra. Yeah it's nothing like any of those games we mentioned and it is mediocre even for a f2p browser game, and nothing old school turn based RPG fans would be interested in, but hey we have your money now suckers so tough luck.
How is that not sleazy?
