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Posted By Stephen B. about 1 year, 1 month ago
Wait, WHAT?!?!?!
Back in February of 2012, a very cool video of what people presumed to be a fake game, Police Warfare, made the rounds on YouTube and generated a lot of buzz. Then a few days ago in April, it was revealed that the game was in fact REAL, placing a Call of Duty-esque multiplayer spin on cops and robbers. A new company, Elastic Games, formed by industry veterans that had worked on titles such as Gears Of War, Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry 3, Grand Theft Auto IV, Crysis, and Killzone 2, had started a KickStarter campaign to generate funds necessary to make their new game.
Then about one hour ago as of this writing, the project was suddenly canceled. In their second update on the KickStarter page, it said:
Thank you so much for the incredible response to the game. We’re shutting down the kickstarter account but this is by no means the end of Police Warfare. News will be coming.
-EG TEAM”
…and that’s it.
I for one am very shocked and surprised about this! This campaign had a lot of promise going and was en route to make its goal. But what happened? Could some of the theories and rumors I’ve been hearing be true?! Did Elastic Games use KickStarter as a sort of marketing gimmick? Did Police Warfare have a publisher all along that wanted to see how well it would do on KickStarter before agreeing to pick it up? Just what happened? What led to this decision?
I for one am eager to find out and will update everyone as soon as more information is obtained. Stay tuned.
Source: Police Warfare KickStarter Page
Well if they did get some interesting news with this (read, the project was already funded), there would be more then a few interesting people wanting to see what happens to those who did fund this.
Thank goodness I say.
We don’t need more FPS games. Seriously.
I remember a tactical shooter on kickstarter didn’t reach its projected funds and failed and the creator wondered why.
Perchance Kickstarter is NOT the place for FPS games (even slightly different FPS games)because people are sick of them.
Seriously, half a minute into that trailer and I was glad to see it die.
I will be able to experience the call of duty franchise through the eyes of law enforcement? No thank you!
Just one little problem with your statement there.
That Tactical Shotter FPS DID reach its projected funds!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/355932838/crowdsourced-hardcore-tactical-shooter
It made with less than 3 hours left on the campaign! A huge come back! I’ve even been talking with the guy on Twitter about this when he noticed and tweeted about it.
If you haven’t, make sure you check out my Editorial over here: http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2012/04/the-kickstarter-spring/ since there seem to be bits and pieces of information that seem to be getting a bit misunderstood here.
I was under the assumption that he had to restart the kickstarter, the one that did meet projected funds was the 2nd attempt.
I was confused as the game was called Crowdsourced Hardcore Tactical Shooter and later changed to Takedown.
But your telling me it reached it’s goal? Great. Now I’m depressed. You better be happy about this.
Do the pledger’s get their money back?
It is my knowledge that kickstarter doesn’t fund the pledges until the time is up. The time wasn’t up, no charges were made and no money was needed to be refunded.
It’s a pretty good system I think.
If [Business here] did this [no one would really know that the money wouldn't go to them] It would make the fans madder but show how much we hate [So-and-so] and want other stuff.
Here’s whats gonna happen. We are gonna get a answer…and then find out the real answer 5 years later.
They had been working on the game for many months prior to joining kickstarter so to throw all that work away would be silly. They most likely got a publisher or have found another way to fund.
Honestly i am not to bothered “Oh no we don’t get another FPS” who cares?
Either they got picked up by a publisher or they didnt raise as much funding as they hoped in the time allotted,but they state the project isnt dead,so i dunno.
Either way,they got over $25k in pledges so they have some explaining to do to their potential investors.I.e joe public.
They had plenty of time! Their KickStarter campaign had 27 days left on it!
And they didn’t get any money at all. It has to succeed for them to get anything. Canceling it means they get nothing.
Better check my KickStarter Spring article here for more info:
http://www.blisteredthumbs.net/2012/04/the-kickstarter-spring/