Quote from: Charon's Little Helper;1087448Well - at least I didn't go crazy with buying a $300 starship or something wacky. I just got the basic game - which I think came with a small starship & insurance on it (or something odd). So - only out like $40-50 (it's been well over half a decade - so I don't remember for sure).

At least there's that. Some people have spent 1000s of $$ on SC. Eek!  I can't imagine how they feel buying into a game that far.
losing $50 is annoying , but not that bad.

Quote from: Charon's Little Helper;1087448I really do think that it wasn't a scam - they just refuse to cut ANY corners (including extremely diminishing returns) and likely know little/nothing about how to produce. I still get periodic emails about all the progress they're making.

I don't follow the whole SC politics and developments very closely at all. I watch an occasional Youtube video about it and it it comes up now and then in forums, so you may well be right.
To me it "Feels like" good intentions gone bad.  
Do some people involved who are running and working on the SC thing perhaps see it as a scam now?  possibly. I don't think it started out that way though.
I think right now, noone in development wants to look too closely at the situation, as facing it would mean realising how bad their situation really is.  so maybe they're trying to delay the inevitable as long as possible or hoping for some sort of breakthrough.

The whole SC thing is getting a lot of attention atm though, so I wonder if it's gonna hit the fan soon.

Quote from: danskmacabre;1087518The whole SC thing is getting a lot of attention atm though, so I wonder if it's gonna hit the fan soon.

I don't play video games so I've never heard of this until now. I just read an article saying people spent and appear to have lost upwards of $24,000....WTF?

Quote from: danskmacabre;1086820Actually the only Kickstarters I've backed are the Sine Nomine (maker of Stars without Number and various other RPGs).

That's because I know he delivers and I trust him.
I also like his work, so backing his work will make it more likely he will make more RPGs.

100% Agree.

Kevin Crawford / Sine Nomine is especially trustworthy because his RPG stuff is done when he starts his Kickstarter. As a backer, you get the PDF access as soon as you pledge.

That takes out most of the risk. Backers can pledge the minimum, read the book, then decide if they want to pledge higher.

And now, he's got the reputation for delivering on time or early so that's a big bonus. He's talked about his KS philosophy in a thread here before and why he does not like stretch goals because that's where many creators get into trouble with over promising.

Quote from: myleftnut;1087604I don't play video games so I've never heard of this until now. I just read an article saying people spent and appear to have lost upwards of $24,000....WTF?

Yeah - I have no idea why someone would blow that kind of cash on ANY video game - much less one that isn't released yet. The only way I'd give any video game company that much money is if I got some stock shares in the company.

Quote from: myleftnut;1087604I don't play video games so I've never heard of this until now. I just read an article saying people spent and appear to have lost upwards of $24,000....WTF?

Yes, there's some crazy expensive packs you can buy for SC that allows special access, REALLY expensive ships and so on.
Yeah wow, you have to be REALLY dedicated to do something like that.

Quote from: danskmacabre;1087851Yes, there's some crazy expensive packs you can buy for SC that allows special access, REALLY expensive ships and so on.
Yeah wow, you have to be REALLY dedicated to do something like that.

Dedicated is not the word that comes to mind when I think about it.