Starbound's dev, Chucklefish, did to fans what DLive did to steemit
"We've got what we wanted, just grab the money and run. We have better things to do." -Starbound and DLive's dev.
Chucklefish, Starbound's dev
So I'm sure you're acquainted with what DLive did. But just: They turned our back to us and made their own blockchain. They went something like "thanks for the money and fuck you" then presented themselves as a new emerging video blockchain, expressing their stay on steemit was nothing but a "simulation test". After all the immense delegations and support they got from us, steem users.
What about Chucklefish? They are Starbound's game developers, who raised 10 million dollars during their kickstarter. They delivered a reasonably gun fame based on Terraria except you can travel between planets. The game is sort of fun,, but here's the problem...
Chucklefish wrecking Starbound's potential
Starbound changed very little after it's first release with the final boss. It had crappy monster art, which it still does. It had a slightly different combat system, which was improved upon a bit. Some randomly-encountered content was added, but the game as a whole basically needs a lot of community mods if gamers want any replay value from it. If you look at Terraria, it just kept going!
Why did they even need 10 million dollars? The game was pretty much ready. Not even 10 thousand dollars was needed to develop what little updates they put out later. Just like DLive, they took the money, stalled for a little bit then went off to do something else. Starbound should have been much greater. Well, too bad.
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Wooooow are you serious? This is terrible, why would they do that?
Because they can. :(
That's just terrible
I don't know if I should laugh or cry...
Cry. Definitely cry.
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Sometimes throwing money at devs is not productive. And like you said sometimes they try to take the money and leave.
At least with delegation you can revoke it at any time, which I think is safer than sending someone actual Steem or dollars or whatever. Though that cant really work with something like kickstarter. Just like with Star Citizen, kickstarters do not seem to be the fix all of game funding. Like when devs sit on the money and only produce minimal viable content.
What's even worse, devs doing this take credibility away from newcomers and startups.
It would be in time for literally everyone to learn that progress isn't about simply mindlessly throwing money at somebody or something.
But that means people would have to leave their comfort zone...!
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I played terraria and I really like this, that they have done this, it does not mean that the game is very bad, the game is amazing
The game is good, but the 10 million dollars paid specifically to improve it went to waste. "Pay me to keep improving this, okay got your money now goodbye."