During the last few months is being called into question the reliability of the features of crowdfunding, those applications that serve to make people donate a fully voluntary sum of money to a project in development. The world of video games is suffering lately from the darker side of these applications.
Just a week that launched the ‘Mighty No. 9’market, a so-called game indie created by Keiji Inafune, the theoretical father of ‘Megaman’ ago. According to Inafune, the game was going to be “spiritual successor” of the legendary saga of Capcom. Despite the purchasing power and Inafune influences within the scene, he decided to pull of Kickstarter, a crowdfunding platform, so that the people contributed with illusion in which was going to be one of the surprises of the year.
Inafune and his project came to collect almost 4 million of euros, amount that comes to overcome in eight times budgets of games indie as valid as ‘ Undertale’. Despite this, the project called ‘Mighty No. 9’ suffered endless delays and had gameplays of very low quality, so the matter began to smell pretty bad.
Effectively, the Friday 24 of June of 2016 is launched to the market an of them disappointments more large of the history of them video games, being to the height of the famous copies of ‘ E.T. the extraterrestrial ‘. The game is tremendously bad, of poor graphic quality, physical and textures spoiled, monotonous and repetitive gameplay and very low difficulty, something unforgivable with 4 million budget. In a nutshell, ‘Mighty No. 9’ has more hours of credits to real game.
A huge fiasco that has forever stained the name of Inafune and has left very touched crowdfunding. And is that there are already various swindles suffered from donors of some video games that started on Kickstarter, and disappeared without a trace or explanation to the true producers of the title: the users.
The intentions of the crowdfunding where poor projects are completely valid, since it is an application that helps those unknown developers take off and be known. He problem is when them failures come of it hand of large creators and myths of the industry that not seek another which take advantage of is of the faith and the good will of the people. Because of these from fiasco’s well-known developers, crowdfunding is being handicapped by a large patch of negative news, scams, cancellations, and other failures that cast doubt more and more people to donate.
