Just wanted to add a quick note on this separately. Perhaps there’s a misunderstanding as to what crowd funding sites like Kickstarter are for. Kickstarter is not generally used to sell games that have been made or spread the word for already made games. It’s used to fund ideas to make the idea into a reality. So of course there will be games out there that are further progressed, obviously size of the game matters too.
I looked at the Castlevania guy’ Kickstarter (long time fan) as well as Shenmue and some others and they’ve been funded for well over 5-6Mil USD and they haven’t even started yet. All they have is a few images of concept. Crowd funding originally was mainly available to help start projects for the little guy, to give the guy a chance to prove what they can do when many large investors would see it as low potential or high risk. The little guy that wasn’t lucky enough to be alive or able to make games for the last 20 years to build a huge name. Check out the Obduction Kickstarter. These are 20 year veterans on Kickstarter and BECAUSE of that they got funded for approx 1.5Mil and they’re two years past their deadline and STILL don’t have a single screenshot or video of the game. Still just concept art. So we’ve done quite a bit more than a lot of them out there. We’ve been open about all aspects of the game and plan as well as been quick to reply to backers and non backer questions!
I don’t think your intention is to be rude, it’s just always good to fully understand context when adding thoughts or criticism to any projects out there.
Thanks again.