It's been stuck 'Connecting...' for quite a while. I suppose I should've expected such a response from a community used to 16 minute loading times (my first computer was a ZX Spectrum). ;-)
Agreed. This is one for small claims court. Although I'm not sure if small claims can make him prove how much he's sold of what, if he's already stopped sending statements of royalties to the developers.
According to one of the forum posts linked elsewhere in this thread [1] his company's accounts are in the red, so even if someone were to sue and win, they aren't going to see any money.
The fundraising period hasn't ended yet, at the time of writing this there's 12 hours to go, and judging by the Kickstarter comments people who have already backed the project are starting to reduce/remove their backing. I wonder if this is the first time there's a chance a project that reaches its target on Kickstarter ends up under the target by the end?
A kickstarter project cannot go under funding goal in the last 24 hours if it has already reached its goal. You can back out if you contribution doesn't bring the project below goal. Part of the anti-trolling rules.
That's interesting, did not know that. However, from what I've read it seems you are entitled to a refund on your backing at any time, so even if technically the funding goal is reached the real funds may be a different amount.
Backers may increase, decrease, or cancel their pledge at any time during the fundraising campaign, except that they may not cancel or reduce their pledge if the campaign is in its final 24 hours and the cancellation or reduction would drop the campaign below its goal.
No-one seems to have pointed out that this is likely to be a trademark violation:
"All rights reserved. 'Elite', the Elite logo, the Elite: Dangerous logo, 'Frontier' and the Frontier logo are registered trademarks of Frontier Developments plc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and copyright are acknowledged as the property of their respective owners."
In this case, unauthorised use of their trademark in the same trademark category (computer games), is going to damage Frontier's reputation.
Could someone get David Braben to contact Kickstarter UK?
Backers may increase, decrease, or cancel their pledge at any time during the fundraising campaign, except that they may not cancel or reduce their pledge if the campaign is in its final 24 hours and the cancellation or reduction would drop the campaign below its goal.
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The comically large banner ad at the top is certainly a nice touch. Not at all out of place on wikipedia.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/952953995/bluetooth-zx-...
Apparently, they vandalized wikipedia to put an ad for their app. Unbelievable.
edit: This is the first comment talking about the issue apparently: https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1066578103
[1] http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=750206&...
http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/160421/item/2750333#item27...
Backers may increase, decrease, or cancel their pledge at any time during the fundraising campaign, except that they may not cancel or reduce their pledge if the campaign is in its final 24 hours and the cancellation or reduction would drop the campaign below its goal.
What about reducing the contribution?
"All rights reserved. 'Elite', the Elite logo, the Elite: Dangerous logo, 'Frontier' and the Frontier logo are registered trademarks of Frontier Developments plc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and copyright are acknowledged as the property of their respective owners."
In this case, unauthorised use of their trademark in the same trademark category (computer games), is going to damage Frontier's reputation.
Could someone get David Braben to contact Kickstarter UK?
Strange, there seem to be relatively few studios like that which didn't either get merged into something larger or fade away completely.
Superior Software is another example.
Mind you, if what these developers is saying is true, then they would do with improving one or two things.
Be interesting if it dips below the £60k required.
edit: found the rule (https://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use),
Backers may increase, decrease, or cancel their pledge at any time during the fundraising campaign, except that they may not cancel or reduce their pledge if the campaign is in its final 24 hours and the cancellation or reduction would drop the campaign below its goal.