missiletoe

@(Unverified) \\\\ MASS EFFECT 3 SPOILERS ////

Care to explain how the outer edge of that blast radius knocks the Normandy out of the sky, then, if the blast isn't harmful to everything within it? Some people have said that the Catalyst explains that it will damage Reaper technology, but there's no reason to believe that the Reaper IFF would still be aboard the Normandy after all the overhauls the Alliance did once they grounded Shepard.

It's just lazy writing. The reason we're furious is precisely BECAUSE the rest of the game seemed great, for the most part. It was obviously rushed and poorly thought-out at the end.

Calling Kickstarter fundraising "begging" is willful ignorance at best and outright stupidity at worst.

For smaller amounts, usually those not equal to the cost of the final product, the donor gets something small. In the case of Auditorium 2, you get a credit in the game.

For the cost of the final product, you generally get the final product.

Anything more than that and you ALWAYS get something of added value, usually accompanied by the final product and everything the smaller tiers get as well.

When you give to a beggar, you expect and get nothing in return. Any Kickstarter project worth even considering "donating" to offers something in return.

Kickstarter fundraising is tantamount to a preorder, just on a longer timeline. What's the difference between that and going through a middle-man publisher who will take a massive cut of the profits on the work that, for the greater part, was done by the developers? Either way, the expectation is that the game will be made and all the costs that are incurred during the making of it will be paid for by the people buying it. The only difference is that, using Kickstarter, the product will be funded by people who are speaking with their dollars by saying "I want this and I'm going to buy it no matter how it gets made".

The responsibility for making sure that you donate to a trustworthy project is on you. Frankly, if you're stupid enough to throw your money at a project with no reassurance that the people behind it are on the up-and-up, you probably deserve to have it taken from you. Harsh as that seems.