The Stomping Land (recently pulled from Steam). Scam?
Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:30 pm
See: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/valve- ... 0-6422063/
Seems like the developers haven't really been communicating with the gamers at all, who have requested refunds of the Kickstarter pledges and payments made through Steam.
What do you guys think? I guess the question is whether or not the game developers actually used the money for developing the game and are just late or overestimated what they could do and aren't going to deliver. It makes me think about the Kickstarter blog post "Is lateness failure?"
Seems like the developers haven't really been communicating with the gamers at all, who have requested refunds of the Kickstarter pledges and payments made through Steam.
"It was successfully funded through Kickstarter in June 2013, receiving more than $114,000 in pledges despite only asking for $20,000. The game landed on Steam this past May, being sold as an Early Access game for $25 as developer SuperCrit (led by developer Alex Fundora) continued to work on it."
None of the official outlets for the game--its Facebook, Twitter, forums, and Kickstarter page--have been updated in months. The developer's website is effectively nonexistent. The last post on the Kickstarter announced the game's arrival in Early Access on Steam on May 30, and stated, "Even though the game is available, development is still in full force." Whether or not that is the case is unclear, as the game was last updated in early June, with no word since then as to when additional updates would be coming. An online petition went live in July asking that the game be removed from the Steam store and that Kickstarter backers and Steam buyers be refunded. As of this writing, it's received 2,816 signatures.
What do you guys think? I guess the question is whether or not the game developers actually used the money for developing the game and are just late or overestimated what they could do and aren't going to deliver. It makes me think about the Kickstarter blog post "Is lateness failure?"