AJ Tilley and Dharker Studio have canceled their last attempt to get Echo Tokyo more money and have since launched a new one with a smaller funding goal. This marks the 8th campaign from them for the same game.
After several Kickstarter campaigns Dharker Studio, formerly AJTilley.com, has returned yet again to finish off development of Echo Tokyo.
Many people can't seem to understand this.
Creating a new Kickstarter account for almost every new campaign is about as red as you're gonna get.
Serena Nelson writes: "Normally I wouldn't mind seeing a new Patreon campaign pop up but AJ Tilley doesn't exactly have a great track record when it comes to crowdfunding and then promptly pulling out before it gets a chance to solidify. I'm still confused as to which accounts are still active and which ones are gone. Both on Kickstarter and Patreon. The Echo Tokyo campaign itself has some rather lofty milestones, too."
First: "Open-world Visual Novel"?
How-W-what?!
Second: How does the author not comes off as "Thrice bitten, but I'll give it another go"?
If there's a repeating cycle going on, with whoever is behind hind trying to exploit both Kickstarter and Patreon at the same time time *WITH THE SAME PROJECT* an article like this shouldn't sound cautionary - it should be outright warning people off.
Serena Nelson writes: "The final major piece of news was in regards to refunds and finances. They've now stopped accepting any refund request by backers because they "had the chance to request them and now we have to focus on using the funds we have to complete the game". They've already gone through the budgets of these titles and were forced to supplement the development with sales from already released games. And while few, with mixed reviews, they do still push them out."
This guy is unbelieveable, why people keep giving him money is beyond me.