When it comes to having to cancel a crowdfunding project in the middle of the campaign I tend to have mixed feelings about it. How I react usually depends on what the reasons behind this decision are. If it’s because of securing extra funding, such as what just happened with CCG Fable Fortune, then I find little in the way to justify said move. According to the latest update they state that they got the funding for the foreseeable future but don’t go beyond that.
The update goes on to state that another reason for the move to take down the Fable Fortune Kickstarter was to focus on getting the game into a beta stage as soon as possible. Yes, I know that running a campaign is a hard task and takes the focus away from development but to just dump this information on backers after doing so without any real justification as to why doesn’t make me a happy camper. And I’m not even a backer of this one.
I’m sure it doesn’t help that they’ve barely managed to breach a decent percentage of their funding goal, but without real good reason I don’t see why they couldn’t at least try to make it in the final days. With or without outside funding. If they made it then they’d have an extra buffer to work with. If they didn’t then nobody gets charged for their pledges. This is something that to this day still baffles me but at least I can try to understand the reasoning behind canceling a project.
When you’re not going to reach your goal, and then someone offers you the funding you need, you accept that funding. With that funding comes a contract with your publisher/investor. Also with kickstarter comes a contract with your backers. Those two contracts were likely not compatible.
Yeah, I kind of chalked it up to that, and the fact that people are more averse to having a Failed Kickstarter under their belts than a Cancelled one.
Yeah. I had this same discussion on Facebook. Agustin Cordes basically said the same thing. I didn’t see the difference but others might be more adverse to one over the other.
Good point. I don’t know anything about the contract with the investor funding the project. I just assumed that it wouldn’t impact it one way or the other.