The problem with kickstarter is that after something is fully pledged, the people who get the money have literately no obligation to put out a working product(besides fan backlash of course). So considering this is an ambitious project (abet essentially a minecraft clone) with a rookie dev team, there is a high chance, if funded, it will just plain never get finished, or is not that good. But you can't tell from this stage. Stuff like Double fine/Wasteland had LEGENDARY developers in charge and even then, it still felt like a risk for me to give them my money, since I have nothing to go on except "we are totally gonna make it like this". Games do not stay the same from pre-production to complete.
It just feels like everyone is jumping onto the kickstarter boat way too soon, before we even seen the results of the very thing that started the trend, Tim Schafer's game.
Basically, I am worried that this is gonna have a huge backlash down the line, and it's potential squandered.
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