Again, in your previous comment, you attempted to rebut an argument I didn’t make (but which the article did), and here you seem to have misread the line where I pointed that out. I’m not sure what to tell you at this point.

I certainly apologize if I’ve come across as salty. My purpose at the outset was simply to disagree with the article’s premise by pointing out that the Bloodstained kickstarter campaign was simply not particularly sensitive to Backer concerns, and I provided details to that effect.

From your comments, I suspect that you may want to reread what I wrote, and the article above. You are attempting to rebut the article’s stance on the events leading to the art overhaul, not mine. I already disagree with the article, but for different reasons than you.

With regards to 505, I’m afraid that we must agree…

Had the vote as to what happened the backer exclusive content itself been exclusive to the backers then I would have had no issue with it. But it wasn’t. The general public was allowed to vote on it as well, and unsurprisingly, they also wanted access. And most of the possibilities offered would allow 505 to sell it…

Yeah, it’s been a bad day for my use of ‘s.
Ah well, I can only endeavor to do better next time.

No, I was trying to avoid saying it’s a contract, because as you say and as I alluded to, it’s not. A contract would have consequences for failure to deliver, whereas at best a Kickstarter can be used for possible FTC enforcement (unlikely) or a backer lawsuit (also unlikely given the costs involved). Now, given 505's…

From your comment, it’s a bit unclear if you’re a moderator of multiple official forums, or if you’re an admin of both the Kickstarter comments and the official forums?
Since you are an admin, do you happen to know if feedback in either location has actually shaped development of the game?

Actually, I’ve been lucky enough to avoid being on a cancelled platform thus far. I did find their handling of the platform cancellation to be particularly odious though. I remember their 505 rep trying to float the concept that the whole thing (violation of Kickstarter’s TOS) was a nonissue because, after all, you…

A kickstarter campaign is a legally binding compact (although it has no enforcement mechanism, so it’s a toothless one). But if you promise a platform and then renege, you are supposed to offer a refund to affected Backers. Bloodstained did that for the first few cancellations, nowadays, not so much.
As for them…

As a Kickstarter backer of Bloodstained, it has not seemed to me that backer input has had much effect, if any, on the course of development. If anything, 505 Games (Bloodstained’s publisher) has gone out of it’s way to minimize backer input.

Things like this, while cool, have been used in the past to hack consoles.  For example, SmileBasic for 3DS gave rise to the BasicSploit.  That would, I assume, be why Nintendo came down on this.

Jokingly, this will allow them to say the fans requested it when they add in the ability to buy the lot?

I think we all know what Xatu sees in the future: Ash.
It exists in a constant temporal flux, everything a bizarre amalgamation of their past and future states.  But Ash... Ash is the only constant.  Eternal, unchanging, horrifying.

The problem, it has always seemed to me, is that Collector’s editions are produced when the game launches. You basically have to buy one blind, not knowing if you’re going to care enough about the game to actually treasure the collector’s edition.
The fact that most CE’s contain junk doesn’t help.
In general, I’d avoid…

I’ll be curious to see how this pans out. Ditching features in on SKU seems like it’ll mean that those features fall by the wayside in all the SKUs?
Meanwhile, Nintendo has a history of making some games exclusive to their refreshed hardware?
It just seems like a massively confusing way to fragment your user base?

There is a price point at which I don’t care about these concerns.  Given the nature of the service, it is highly unlikely that Google reaches it.  But if it’s cheap enough ...

The difference between the lowest tier of Netflix and Crunchyroll is now $1?

Having been a fan since anime was considerably more expensive, the price increase strikes me as fairly trivial. It does, however raise some concerns about Crunchyroll going forward. If one had to choose between say Crunchy and Netflix, and the price points were roughly equal, what would you pick? Many people…

A slight difference in that there won’t be a console you have to buy for the privilege.  Whether or not that makes a difference, I don’t know.

This is simple, but I found it quite charming.
Makes me nostalgic for the original.