Quote Originally Posted by mailman187666 View Post
On the note of crowdfunding, I think a lot of companies should look at Blooodstained as the right way to do things. Sure it took a while to come out and there are some performance issues in the game, but everone is getting what they were promised, the team has had complete transparency with all issues throughout the whole campaign, and to top it off, the game itself is of the calibur of what was expected...A legitimately good game.
I wouldn't exactly say everyone is getting what they were promised or that there's complete transparency. On top of taking a whopping five years to complete the main game, they cancelled the Wii U, Vita, and Linux versions. The Switch version was hastily thrown together and often is barely above 15fps. Other versions crash and have a variety of other problems. They're issuing a patch to fix some glitches, yet they're already admitted it's a file-breaking patch. You have to either beat the game before installing the patch, hoping that the bugs won't prevent you in doing so, or restart the game from scratch after you've got the patch. And they only shared that info on Discord, hiding it from all the other backers and those who have bought the game after release. There are also backer rewards that won't be shipped for an indefinite amount of time, and DLC that was advertised as being backer-exclusive no longer is, on top of not being available at launch.

So while it's not the biggest disaster of a game Kickstarter, it still wasn't a total success and had a whole slew of issues.