After Raising $114,000 on Kickstarter, Dev Goes Silent

Crowd funding is essentially "I am willing to invest my money into your idea, I understand it may not be a success or even see the light of day." Some will succeed, most will fail that is the risk you take.

I dont think it's exactly shady, as in they started out with the attempt to con people. I think that real life happens and other oppurtunities present themselves. Remember that this is the world of 12 month resume. You work a job for a few months and then move on to the next.

Guys i need money for my game "HoboCop" lets make it happen people!

The best thing about Kickstarter is also, the worst thing about it. Anyone can use it, opening the door wide-open for con-artists.

Kickstarter's days are numbered. We will look back on it and think "It had so much potential." But the road to h*ll is paved with good intentions. Do I want Kickstarter to end, no.
Because good things have come from it and will continue to do so, but like all things in life you have to take the good with the bad... It's just often there is more bad than good.

Shady crap like this is going to kill kickstarter.

The only problem I see is they've opened up reward based investing to people who don't understand investing. If you can't stomach a zero ROI, don't risk the money!

Kickstarter, is where devs go to if they want to steal people's money without legal consequences.

At least AAA publishers and self-published Indies Developers make sure the development of their titles is on-going, and they assume full responsibility and losses if their project fails.

I think steam early access has to take some of the blame for this sort of thing aswell. I use to be a big advocate for it but how many games have actually been completed.

Aliens.

all your monies are belong to us

If you want to make lots of money get some game designers to but an awful demo together start a Kickstarter then make lots of empty promises until you get enough money abandon the project and get the hell outta there

Time to start stomping

Time to form an Angry Mob

Man pc gaming is going downhill, only games I play are arma, red orchestra, shit I can't even remember last time I booted it up. Yea yea mods are are cool and butt I'll wait so I don't need 2k comp

Its a shame really.. the game looked like it could have really been something.

I'd form a hunting party and get my money back from him directly with force.