Le crowdfunding est en train de révolutionner monde du jeu vidéo en très bien !
La seule chose qui me chagrine encore aujourd'hui c'est que les jeux développés ainsi le sont sous licence propriétaire (et potentiellement avec des DRM) alors que rien ne le justifie.
Mais je ne désespère pas le fait d'ouvrir le code d'un jeu peut permettre à un studio d'assurer la maintenance du jeu sur le long terme à coûts très réduits grâce à la communauté et ainsi améliorer l'expérience des joueurs sur le long terme, ce qui lui serait profitable pour ses titres suivants :)
"Crowd Funding Revolution
In the past, when you wanted to develop a big AAA game, you needed a publisher. You needed to convince guys in suits, who don’t understand games at all, to give you money. Those guys usually don’t like original unproven ideas and so most of the games were uninspired clones of each other. Fortunately these times are over.
Our game is being developed without the aid of traditional publishers, so it relies on your support and funding from private investors. Originally we tried to approach publishers, but they refused to finance project they considered to be too risky and niche.
After two years of development without finding a publisher to finance us, it seemed that we would have to close doors. So we tried our last chance and started a Kickstarter campaign. And it turned out that our game is anything but niche. We raised over £1 million (US$1.75 million) within one month and the response from gamers and media was awesome.
The game was saved and overnight it grew to be one of the most expected projects. We can hardly expressed how we felt after months of desperation. Now we are independent of publishers, we are going to self-publish the game and we are funded by private investors and our fans. This gives us creative freedom to make the best game we can. If you like what we do, please support our game. In exchange you will get a chance to influence its design and play an early access version.
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."