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The developers behind the sequel to legendary videogame Elite have, to the anger and dismay of fans, announced they've dropped the promised offline singleplayer mode. The game is due to be released in under a month. With the title having raised about $1.5 million from Kickstarter, and millions more in subsequent campaigns that advertised the feature, many of those following the project are livid. A complaints thread on the official Elite forums has swelled to over 450 pages in merely three days, with backers demanding refunds. It is down to the discretion of Frontier, the game's developer, whether to process refund requests of original backers.
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Anger as Elite:Dangerous Drops Offline Singleplayer
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 18 2014, @10:16PM
There is only one reason to go to kickstarter: pay for a game that you wouldn't get otherwise and hope to get it. It's a risk, but often the only option for games that aren't trivial to make and no publisher would touch them.
(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Wednesday November 19 2014, @08:20AM
Actually, Kickstarter happens to have a few categories outside of "games" and "gadgets".
I backed the OotS reprint kickstarter. That one came through, even though the kickstarter kind of exploded and got to 1 million instead of a few thousand.
There will be plenty of cases (like reprinting books that are currently out of print) where getting to the final stage is not as wrought with thorns as developing a game based on a proof-of-concept version.
On a side note, as Kickstarter points out themselves: Kickstarter is not a store. Treat it as such at your own peril.