Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity - Original Sin - General Wow.. That KS CE is a bit shoddy.

Not really...I disagree with the passive approach of the KS supporters here.

I did not pledge originally in the kickstarter, but let me explain why they should be pissed off this happened:

- THE BIGGEST POINT: Money is money, money makes the world goes around, pays bills, buys hookers, buys food. When somebody puts money into something thats a labour of love, in the crowdsourcing scenario the buyeris INVESTING money and basically expecting NO RETURN, other than the promise of a finished game.

^ If you think about it this is extremely unfair to the kickstarter supporters, they will never see any of the revenue in project they invested in, no matter how much money DOS ends up making. Imagine investing in a company, but not getting any shares of share of the revenue. In that light kickstarter supporters are incredibly SELFLESS.

- The game was delayed again and again, though for good reason. We can imagine the anguish of those who payed 95USD about 1.5 years before the game was released. Its easy for players buying the game now to say the kickstarters are whiners, but they didn't suffer the pain of having to wait.

- A few stretch goals were completely missed, such as the inclusion of more companions and a day night cycle, whilst these are not game breaking, and resources were likely to be put somewhere else, it still doesn't change the fact that the game is not 100% of what was promised. At one point the companions were all meant to have complete story lines, and there was meant to be relationships and stuff (all this was promised on someway).

- So in that light in doesn't make sense for Larian studios to under deliver on a delayed box set, missing dice, and making a crappy map (which is arguable the coolest part of the physical version).

So it is wit these points that I strongly argue that Larian should spend some of the money they have no doubt made from Steam to provide better quality maps to the kickstarter supporters, its really the least they can do from a community of people that funded the completion and perfection of their project and also contributed endless FREE FEEDBACK.

I would personally never support a kickstarter, because why should I spend my own hard earned money to "donate" to a company making a product I have no idea will be good or not, and making a product ultimately I will have no share of the profits at all. I truly respect people who can give up their own money to support somebody else's dream and ask nothing back.

Again money is money, to me if you spend money you should get something back, as much as I adore independent studios, this isn't non profit charity here.

I love DOS, and its a great example of kickstarting gone right, but i've also seen numerous other projects massively underdeliver, ultimately the developers are the ones who walk away with the money.

The least the supporters can get is some dignity in their money spent.