Now see, THAT'S cool. I have no use for it, but I look at it and say "nice."

Again, if that was deemed important, it should be included in the budget to make the game, not held for ransom. "Well, I don't give a shit about Linux ports, but I REALLY want female models... so..."

Sure. Just not to the point of having to split the game in half and hope that preorders and additional crowd funding cover the costs to finish.

It makes more sense for some projects to have stretch goals, and since they got the extra funding, they can create the true full, complete experience they sought out to create.

I'm sure Tim still would have blown his wad on the budget.

Well, of course they're going to allow it. The more money a project makes, the larger their cut is. I'm actually kinda surprised as shit to see them advise caution in this matter...

I'm glad to hear Kickstarter weigh in on this. Stretch goals kinda bug the shit out of me.

Make a plan, set a price, and if you get funded, make what you promised. If you got a lot more money, it'd be much more rewarding to carefully add to your original vision as opposed to dangling arbitrary ideas over potential…

Honestly, this is the kind of crap that makes me almost wish the Xbox One had happened as planned, and that it had become the new console normal. One of the bonuses of digital distribution; even if they didn't adopt a Steam pricing scheme, at the very least, the artificial scarcity problem would be resolved.

That makes a lot of sense.

I notice it; they just generally don't jack the price up three times. The last game I remember them doing that with was Space Marine, but I'm sure they've done it several times since. I just don't understand why.

It's possible.

You do realize Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, Tactics, Origins and Chronicles, as well as Disgaea 1 and 2, Tales of the Abyss, Mega Man Anniversary Collection and Mega Man X Collection were all games that were re-printed by third parties...

That, I can agree with.

They're not worried about me, though. They're exploiting a small group of very passionate Wii gamers who, if made to, will gladly pay $90 to play what they want. Only instead of Nintendo/Monolith (or whoever made the game) getting that $90, it all goes to Gamestop.

It's an MMO. One would think that this would be considered important enough, and common sense, to just DO, instead of throwing it in the heightened stretch goals. They're already asking for 90 thousand dollars for a mod; come on. You could do this in your own game engine for around that; most of the work here is…

No, capitalism CAN be good, but when the basic response to this shady shit (and it is shady. If you say otherwise, you're being paid by them to say it) is "Because Capitalism" and you just shrug off all counterexamples to why this is shady shit, I'll poke fun at it. This sort of shit makes me want to SING PRAISES…

Lazy? Seems pretty calculated.

Except they're not. None of the games bought so far have been used; they all looked mint and none of the registration codes had been used.

Why is it fucked up?

it's a deception that for the last ten years has gotten brand new games into your hands at a price LESS than the manufacturer would have you pay.