Did Gas Powered shoot themselves in the foot ?

I mean who wants to back a kickstarter game that doesn't have a development team behind it ?

Sure, Chris Taylor said he will hire everyone back when the kickstarter is successful but it's just a really weird situation that doesn't give potential backers a lot of assurance the game will ever be made.

I hope their kickstarter will be successful though, I would hate to see GPG go like this. They are a great studio.

I've just seen his video, but I would be really worried if I had invested some money in this. Putting out a message like this is signing your own death warrant. This is gonna fail.

i guess he wants get all funding together before offering pay X amount to someone that he can't do. or pay the people enough to quit their current job... I don't like kickstarter anyways.... i am not a free bank

What happened to that other rts that they were developing? kings and castles or something like that.dannenissan2

It was put on hold when they developed Age of Empires Online. I think it was because they didn't have a publisher.

They said they are keeping a team of about 30 I think. 30 is waaaay more people than most of the kickstarter projects have.

It sounded to me like they have enough to maintain the smaller team for now, regardless of if the kickstarter is successful or not. If the campaign was extremely successful, he said that he'd try to hire the rest back.

theres an article on this herehttp://www.gamespot.com/news/major-layoffs-at-wild-man-dev-6402672

Chris says he still has a fully functioning company, though its smaller now. The part I don't get in the article is Chris asking supporters if he should continue with the kickstarter project or terminate it. If the kickstarter doesn't make it wont all the money be refunded anyway? Thought thats how it worked

Chris also mentions that the future of GPG rests on the success of Wildman. I hope it makes it.

Yea, that seems a little strange to me, and it doesn't seem to make much sense. It's possible that he doesn't know how Kickstarter funding works if it doesn't meet it's goal, or doesn't know how the Kickstarter comment system works.

I think it was a situation where they wanted to be honest and acknowledge that it had happened; not knowing the best way to respond but feeling like a quick response was necessary or everyone would write the company off as good as dead and not want to back the project. Maybe a little too kneejerk. I'm sure that wasn't a planned video when they started the Kickstarter campaign.

They need to spread the word a bit more about this Kickstarter because untill reading this topic I had never head of Wildman. Total Annihilation and Supcom Forged Alliance are among my list of favorite RTS games ever so I hope the studio does well enough to eventually bring us more.

Yea, that seems a little strange to me, and it doesn't seem to make much sense. It's possible that he doesn't know how Kickstarter funding works if it doesn't meet it's goal, or doesn't know how the Kickstarter comment system works.

I think it was a situation where they wanted to be honest and acknowledge that it had happened; not knowing the best way to respond but feeling like a quick response was necessary or everyone would write the company off as good as dead and not want to back the project. Maybe a little too kneejerk. I'm sure that wasn't a planned video when they started the Kickstarter campaign.

guynamedbilly

They need to spread the word a bit more about this Kickstarter because untill reading this topic I had never head of Wildman. Total Annihilation and Supcom Forged Alliance are among my list of favorite RTS games ever so I hope the studio does well enough to eventually bring us more.

pelvist

With alot of them making Planetary Annihilation, other than Chris, I wonder how many of the original team that did TA are still with GPG.

They probably need a great marketing team, in order push this trough

Thanks for clearing that up. I was under the impression that there were only a couple of people left at Gas Powered

I don't think Chris Taylor shot him self in the foot - I think he acts with respect for his employees and I sure as wildman hope he makes it!

Supreme Commander is one of my all time favourite RTS games, and I would hate to see GPG go down.

Besides, if Wildman is a success, he (CT) will probably have free reigns on their next project, which could very well be King's And Castles (Supcom - but medieval style, HELL YEA!!).