Now, this is my personal believe and I don't push anyone to think in the same way, but crowd funding are the first steps towards the change of the gaming industry production. Why?
May be the idea of crowd funding is risky and, yes, it does have some deflects, however, the developers such as Chris Roberts and the guys behind the Kingdom Comes: Deliverance, really put the hope into crowd funding "effect".
Here is how I imagine the games are being published. A group of guys comes to the private investor or a game publishing company, with an idea of what exactly they want to make and how it will look like. But more importantly what interest the investor or the publisher is weather the game will be bring them money. Then they decide on weather game is going to be published or not in accordance to their marketing department (if you want to know my opinion on that, I suggest you to watch the following).
How different is crow funding from the publisher I can just quote from the Kingdom Comes official website: " Help us to bring our vision to life. Help us to create not the 176th free-to-play mobile RPG MMO Elven village-builder with DIAMONDS™, but a unique, engaging experience we think you’d like to play. Every extra dollar will allow us to make the final product that much better because it means more money for development and more support from our investor." A power of the people's money to support those who they believe can fulfil their desires. If that is not the future of upcoming, but of course probably not so protected for now, future than I don't know what is.
Pledge to those games for they are awesome.
How different is crow funding from the publisher I can just quote from the Kingdom Comes official website: " Help us to bring our vision to life. Help us to create not the 176th free-to-play mobile RPG MMO Elven village-builder with DIAMONDS™, but a unique, engaging experience we think you’d like to play. Every extra dollar will allow us to make the final product that much better because it means more money for development and more support from our investor." A power of the people's money to support those who they believe can fulfil their desires. If that is not the future of upcoming, but of course probably not so protected for now, future than I don't know what is.
Pledge to those games for they are awesome.
