Vapourware Realms Beyond: Ashes of the Fallen - Chaos Chronicles reborn and dead again

[The Wall]

There's something we're not being told here, no one just loses all contact with the manager and co-owner of his company for months and thinks "this is fine".

Agree. You gotta be retadred to believe that
Thou we do live in Retarded Times

 

[The Wall]

Now they are on Discord mourning the possible death of this Drude (ghost CEO) and excusing his behaviour because "he developed anxiety thanks to pandemic which makes him allergic to phone calls"

BTW, he was last time seen on LinkedIn a few moments ago. Gamers are such naive bitches

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Now they are on Discord mourning the possible death of this Drude (ghost CEO) and excusing his behaviour because "he developed anxiety thanks to pandemic which makes him allergic to phone calls"

BTW, he was last time seen on LinkedIn a few moments ago. Gamers are such naive bitches

Or maybe they are playing gullible bitch to wash their hand off the mistake.

The fact is when they know what money they have and probably what money the German government gives they should already planned the scope that they need to do.

Any funding outside of that is nice to have but is not something that you need to depend upon for the development.

It's like getting a budget for a project in a company but crating the scope in such a way that you will definitely need additional time and funding to get stuff finished. They could probably hire a competent project manager, have less money for development, and probably still create something more than half baked beta and a dead game.

 

[NJClaw]

Anyone who thought they needed only 100k to make this game (or claimed that was the case) is even more naive than HobGoblin42 seems to be.

I don't think anybody ever thought this was a 100k game. But if you go on Kickstarter asking for 100k, it's fair to assume that you already have or at least know how to get the rest of the funds. If you go on Kickstarter asking for 100k but you really want 200k and even that's not really enough, and then you tell everyone that the result of the campaign will allow you to develop your project as planned, I think it's fair to call you a piece of shit.

They already knew how this was going to end the day the Kickstarter ended.

 

[Mazisky]

I've been told this is all Larian masterplan to prevent the market to have any turn based rpg other than their shit games.

 

[:Flash:]

Anyone who thought they needed only 100k to make this game (or claimed that was the case) is even more naive than HobGoblin42 seems to be.

I don't think anybody ever thought this was a 100k game. But if you go on Kickstarter asking for 100k, it's fair to assume that you already have or at least know how to get the rest of the funds. If you go on Kickstarter asking for 100k but you really want 200k and even that's not really enough, and then you tell everyone that the result of the campaign will allow you to develop your project as planned, I think it's fair to call you a piece of shit.

They already knew how this was going to end the day the Kickstarter ended.

Well they did have a plan, which was use the kickstarter fund to develop a prototype that can get them an investor/publisher. Which is how basically all the kickstarter games work.
And they got their working prototype.
The more money you get out of your kickstarter, the better your negotiating position for this deal is, because the more interest by gamers it shows.
So they had a shitty negotiating position, which (I guess) is why Drude didn't want to take the deal and wrote a pissy mail which broke the deal. HobGob knew that beggars can't be choosers, which is why he considered the deal to be fair and wanted to take it.

 

[Grunker]

I mean, if it isn't clear now, this team is incapable of managing a development process. This interview with bitComposer seems awfully understated in retrospect considering the amount of bullshit the publisher must have dealt with:

https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=9094

I am especially inclined to believe this:

I am sure other publishers in our situation would have already shut down the studio a few months ago.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Once again, I'm reminded that I gave money to these assholes.

I think I should just start day trading. At least then I'll have some fun before my money gets set on fire.

 

[Desiderius]

There's something we're not being told here, no one just loses all contact with the manager and co-owner of his company for months and thinks "this is fine".

The USSR did for seventy years.

 

[Desiderius]

allergic to phone calls

Aren't we all? Wasn't this why texting was invented?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

allergic to phone calls

Lawks, and in this day and age,

 

[lycanwarrior]

Man, I was super-hyped for this game not gonna lie

Market needs more hardcore party-based RPGs for sure. Cyberpunk 2077 does NOT count lol.

 

[Takamori]

And one more for the Boulevard of broken Dreams

 

[Tacgnol]

The first warning sign was when they dropped JF to appease about 5 people on RPGWatch.

 

[mediocrepoet]

The first warning sign was when they dropped JF to appease about 5 people on RPGWatch.

And Crispy.

 

[Takamori]

The first warning sign was when they dropped JF to appease about 5 people on RPGWatch.

Who the fuck take RPGWatch seriously?

 

[Tacgnol]

The first warning sign was when they dropped JF to appease about 5 people on RPGWatch.

Who the fuck take RPGWatch seriously?

HobGoblin42 for one.

 

[deuxhero]

Don't donate to kickstarters.

 

[Reinhardt]

The first warning sign was when they dropped JF to appease about 5 people on RPGWatch.

Who the fuck take RPGWatch seriously?

They are more monocled than codex at this point.

 

[Aemar]

Once again, I'm reminded that I gave money to these assholes.

Never pledged to a crowdfunding project and I intend to keep it that way.

 

[Takamori]

Once again, I'm reminded that I gave money to these assholes.

Never pledged to a crowdfunding project and I intend to keep it that way.

I donated to Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2, Wasteland 2 and 3 and DoS 1 and 2.
Not gonna say they are the peak of RPGs but sure i got my lunch money back in fun.

 

[Desiderius]

The first warning sign was when they dropped JF to appease about 5 people on RPGWatch.

JF?

 

[Tacgnol]

The first warning sign was when they dropped JF to appease about 5 people on RPGWatch.

JF?

Our resident foot fetishist JarlFrank

 

[NJClaw]

Once again, I'm reminded that I gave money to these assholes.

Never pledged to a crowdfunding project and I intend to keep it that way.

I have given away money on Kickstarter, but only to trustworthy people who had already proven their integrity, devotion, and reliability with previous games. Pierre didn't disappoint me with Knights of the Chalice 2, and I'm sure Owlcat won't disappoint me with Wrath of the Righteous.

If you pledge your money to people with a history of unreliability and failed projects, you are basically asking to get scammed.

 

[Desiderius]

The first warning sign was when they dropped JF to appease about 5 people on RPGWatch.

JF?

Our resident foot fetishist JarlFrank

How did they drop him? From what?