CSE wrote:notami wrote:Considering the possible legal repercussions from Kickstarter that wouldnt be a good Idea.
Furthermore Josh Parnell is at the beginning of his job-career and had paused his University education for his LT-Project.With the Kickstarterforum and his own LT Forum this happens in public. Easy to find for every potential future employer or business partner.
Maybe you still go to school, so you will find it hard to understand or highly unfair, but there is no acknowledgement for "trying hard" and there is no understanding for "its not my fault" (even worse if it is about mental issues).
If he just walks away from this Project to Continue his University education -> for what? He can only stay and try to complete his work by himself.
I absolutely disagree.
With regards to kickstarter, he did much more than could be expected, for much longer; if need be he can deliver an improved prototype or the current built and be absolutely clean on this side - who could begrudge >2 years full time for a s low as 170k$?
Well, no.
1. He promised more than could be expected, and his backers, rightly, believed him.
2. He showed that he
could do, at least in principle what he promised, and so logically he showed that he could do much more than could be expected from an indie developer.
3.
So, logically, we expect him to finish, because he's shown he can do it.
4. If he doesn't do it, then notami's point holds: he was in a position to accomplish something amazing, but he wasn't able to hold his promise. The reason may be totally justifiable, but unfortunately very often outcomes are binary: (i) you produce the promised result, and (ii) anything else is just an excuse.
Of course it's unfair, but very often that's just the way it is.
The distinction between the expectation in points 1-2 and point 3 is the difference between
(a) what we might usually expect from an indie developer, and
(b) what we specifically expect from Josh.
(a) and (b) are clearly distinct, or else we wouldn't still be here supporting Josh.