So according to the last Kickstater update I am supposed to come on over to the forum to check out the state of the game, get updates etc....There doesn't seem to be anything new of note here, and actually more discussion over on the KS page. If smaller teams manage to keep folks up to speed on the progress of their project, or at the least, answer backer queries etc, its quite surprising that Massive Black seem unable to. I pretty much backed this project based on it being made my Massive Black. I've enjoyed projects you've worked on in the past and have attended massive black/ca workshops where everyone seemed passionate about things they work on its a pity that enthusiasm doesn't translate to KS projects.....
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Will be interesting to see wether the next update actually shows any progress, not just apologies & excuses and the announcing of some obscure software package being used to build the Closed Alpha.
I'd like to echo some of what LokiEliot said above. You guys are not providing any feedback to your backers, which means that instead of this feeling like a painful, grindingly slow part-time "when we feel like it" development effort (which is apparently what it is), it rather feels more like a death march through concrete.
I gather that you vastly underestimated the requirements for the project. At some point, can you discuss with your backers (on the forum that you used to *get backers*, not on a private forum that requires a separate login to keep track of) something a little more concrete than vague reassurances that you're still working on some arcane aspect of the project, with an undefined set of deliverables, to be expected at some nebulous point in the future, maybe, if you can maintain some undetermined level of unknown staff for an unknowable length of time?
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140504/07153727119/washington-state-files-first-consumer-protection-lawsuit-against-kickstarter-project-that-failed-to-deliver.shtml
http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/22/why-this-jilted-kickstarter-backer-decided-to-sue-why-he-was-right/
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-22/when-a-kickstarter-project-threatens-to-fail