10/17/2023 0 Comments System shock remake resetera![]() While I probably won't try to request a refund myself as I hope the game is still released, I can understand why people would, especially those who feel misled about the nature of the project they donated to. ![]() However, IMO it's not a great look for a company with other revenue streams to point blank refuse all refunds when they've pretty much admitted that the failure of the project was down to increasing the scope beyond what the backers initially signed up to fund, and beyond the budget they had available. ![]() So currently backers have no idea when, or even if, the game's going to be released, it seems like the money's been as good as pissed up a wall, but requests for refunds won't be considered until an indefinite point in the future if/when the game's finally released? In a case where a Kickstarter project was the dev's sole source of income, there simply wouldn't be any money to refund and the position would be understandable. To be due out in, at most, 36 days and still not have a release date is another pink flag, and this one is very dark.Are they going to stick to this? They announced this hiatus only ~three weeks after posting that, and the implication now is that they've used up the money. ![]() I want to like it too, but one peek behind the scenes and things don't seem as solid as they should. Night Dive didn't make System Shock, but it's hard to deny it loves System Shock. The demo played well enough when I first dabbled with it, and if you're going to remake something, it might as well be a forgotten classic crowd-sourced by a medium sized studio dedicated to doing right by the series. There are just a lot of pink flags, and when you raise them all up as one, they look red. For the most part, it's not the people who made the game that was central to generating backers in the first place. Citing "feature creep" at the Games Development Conference in 2018, the game's leads stated development had restarted and a newly assembled team would be moving forward with the project. Of course, Avellone is just one man, he's no longer there, and he wasn't part of the Enhanced Edition team which proved Night Dive had the pedigree for this. ![]()
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