The Kickstarter/IndieGoGo Thread

[Sengir]

They aren't remaking the game. DId you see the breakdown $ for $? Do you personally know how much it costs to add extra characters to a dev companies game that was fired after their semi-successful launch?

I personally know that QA testing doesn't cost even half of 20k. Every time I've QA tested (for a whole game, not a single character) I (and a couple hundred others) was given a voucher for a free pizza, $5 starbuck gift card or something of the sort. They're either having several thousand people paid to QA test or "saving" a couple thousand to QA it themselves.

They're even outsourcing hitboxes for a single character because that's too much work to do themselves? They're implementing (re-implementing?) audio (The voice acting is a separate category; they want someone to either implement an audio system or literally put the voice samples in-game, take your pick) . Either they're really really incompetent or they're asking for more money than they intend to use. It's... not like it's rocket science to figure that out...

The fact that we're even discussing ethics or why they should be doing this is boggling my mind.

I thought talking about ethics or why developers should be doing something is what we do? Or does Lab Zero have some kind of special shield that EA or Nintendo don't?