What confuses me is that these Kickstarters PROVE that there is money to be made with these games. If the promise of a game can make over a million in 30 days I don't see why it's such a risk to make them.

I guess the major companies only do it if there is a projected 1000% profit now days??? No wonder they keep getting worse.

Kickstarter exclusive content tied to the physical version ONLY is bullshit though. It's already nightmarish enough to pay that much in South America, even more to HOPE for the goods to be delivered here anytime soon and without troubles. I still have nightmares with how my MN9 package will arrive here, if it ever does. September can't arrive faster.

I'll pass and just buy the steam release once it's out in 2 years, no point buying it now if there's no extra content or discounts for the digital release.

It's about time Castlevania had it's TRUE successor. I remember grinding away hours to get the Crissaegrim from the Schmoo and raging whilst trying to beat the game with Richter.

Long gone are days when Game Companies were only devoted to make games, now they're just Companies, plain and simple, "Game" Prefix taken out. If the investors' money doesn't return X much in stock revenue, projects aren't viable ... leaving the actual programmers and artists out of the game-making loop.

It's just that changing trends and technology have been squeezing out everything from the development pipeline that isn't either super low budget (which minimizes risk) or super high budget (which maximizes profit); a similar trend is happening/has already happened in the movie industry. Crowdfunding seems like it's opening up a lot of new paths, though.