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PuffPals: Island Skies, a cosy game that earned $2.5 million on Kickstarter, has been slammed with refund requests after its website and online store disappeared (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36463970

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Things like this is why I do not do any of these Kickstarters or any crowdfunding things anymore.

Until they put in that you have to have independent auditing for progress for funding release and mandatory release of all source code, engineering documents, and IP of you don't meet your delivery I'm just not going to risk getting scammed.

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Isn’t part of the Kickstarter ToS that you understand there’s a chance the project won’t come to fruition?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    It is, but hear me out: There is a difference between failing with a reason and failing silently - and seemingly with no reason. I don't know this project and I don't know what happened and how the creators handled this, but I have been on Kickstarter since it came to life and I have seen projects with poor communication fail and everyone was furious and I have seen projects fail who managed to communicate their struggles to their investors very well and they didn't get overrun with refund requests. I know it is hard to admit problems and finally failure, but it has to be part of the progress.

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