Every time I'm tempted to go back to GTA:O, I remember that I'll just get riddled with bullets every 5 minutes. And when I say minutes, I mean seconds.
@Thathanka I think that's largely because the ship really is just spinning around on the spot! I'm not sure whoever was flying it knew where the throttle was.
Shadow Realms really is a rubbish name. I'd like to see it in action though - from what I've heard so far it's an asymmetric multiplayer episodic action RPG with single player elements. That's quite a lot of things...
This whole situation really underlines some of the fundamental problems of Kickstarter. For example It's T&Cs only oblige the creator of the project to give out refunds - if the creator, for example, gives a third party a big chunk of cash up front for "licencing" or "consultancy" and then shuts down, there's nobody left liable to pay out refunds. Meanwhile, the third party gets to keep all their cash.
Also, while the terms say backers should get refunds in the event of cancellation, there are already plenty of examples of where that hasn't happened - and to be fair, giving full refunds to all backers would sort of require that those running the project still had all the money they were pledged, which isn't likely.
I'm not a frequent backer of crowd-funded projects, but when I do, I try and do it on the basis that I'd be comfortable with the possibility of never getting anything in return for my money. That's kind of sad, but at least that way I'm treating it like a donation rather than a pre-purchase.
The whole Yogcast thing has been so badly handled though - It's hard to believe they still thought this was achiveable for so long.
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