Why I am continuing to bother with this, I just don't know.
The problem here is you misunderstood what I said/meant and are now trying to beat me over the head with that confusion in a public showing of superiority. I guess I left out a key word that would have made it crystal clear, but I thought the context was enough. Apparently not.
When I said "I feel like we're picking and choosing which statements to believe here,", I was specifically referring to statements from the developers (which have been repeated in this thread).
Aside from pointing out that you ignored a fairly large response from me (save for a joke at the end about Star Citizen), I was not accusing anyone of cherry-picking our personal statements here when I made that comment. I try and crop for space just as much as anyone. If I only grab a snippet when quoting response, it is either:
1) ..for space/spam prevention reasons.
2) ..because I already covered something in a previous response, and don't feel like repeating myself again because it will likely just get ignored a second/third/fourth time.
3) ..because someone is saying something that really doesn't warrant a response (e.g. "I think RPGs are fun!")
3) ..because I feel someone just made a ridiculous comment and (to me) it's not even worth responding to or acknowledging. The whole "if you can't say anything nice.." approach.
4) ..some combination of the above.
The difference between our opinions is perspective...
I think you missed my point, it's a matter of perspective really. You see it as paying a price and value for it. You most likely didn't know about the KS and feel really bad you missed out. Been there, Wasteland 2 by inXile. But what you have to realize is that that kickstarter was enormously important to them and there is a very real possibility that without it there may have been no Original Sin or turned out a great deal less than what it currently is(despite still missing a lot of the levels that will be in the final game). It's understandable. So next time there is a KS, don't miss out, it's that simple. Putting your faith in a game you won't touch for a long time takes patience and trust and assuming a very real risk(even for a game like Original Sin which had some content done and may have seen some form of release without KS) that you lose your money but also get rewarded for that faith, no matter how meaningless you think it is. It's not, and regardless of what you think, still had a very real impact on the Alpha released in January and its reception on Steam....and yes, the risk for SEA even for the alpha as it was, was still a lot lower than during the initial KS campaign. I thing it's quite visible that the game made enormous leaps toward completion from January to now(less than three months) so switch to the beta and then think how meaningful three times that amount of time was.
