I am not even directly talking about them is the point but about the uncertainty of this specific kind of fundraising. Varisse over there thinks that if they just issue a letter stating "these things have changed, deal with it" here is no accountability to anyone for previous promises.
If you pre sell 300 ships and then spend that money on the coding to make them and the rest of the game but don't deliver then go bankrupt he game is a failure and too bad so sad for everyone. You knew the risk. I would be cool with that.
Now pre sell the same 300, flounder around and have to reinvent your game delaying it significantly. Doesn't matter if it is for good and valid reasons. In order to get some cash flow in you pre sell another 300 though. Now some of the original 300 want their money back. Their money was spent, you pay them with the new pre sell money. Now you need to raise more. This is the very definition of a pyramid scheme the only difference is they didn't intend to do so when starting out.
The people still invested don't care, that's fine but it isn't up to them to say "well I don't care so no harm was done". There is still some shady shit going on. Even if they are 100% open with their books they are doing shady shit. If this was a hardware company with a tangible product or an investment company their heads would be rolling because people would hold their feet to the fire and some regulatory agency might jump in.
Instead we have a bunch of beaten wives in an abusive relationship explaining away the problems because they have too much invested at this point.
Like I said look into other big fund raisers that have failed. There isn't a single other project (if you find one let me know) that has been crowd funded and not released faster than this. All others have failed and refunded or failed and said sorry we can't refund. Like I said look into Zano or Nuviz.
