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[Lord Dullard]

At first I figured EB to just be kind of a lucky moron. But, the more that I think about it, the more that I realize Bartlett is seriously a d-bag.

He has MORE than enough money to put together a proper team of devs/artists/etc. to create a game, assuming that he had the capability to come up with a good concept and flesh it out a bit first (I know he clearly doesn't, so null point anyway, but). The fact that he's now marketing crappy, unoriginal junk when he has more than enough personal wealth to spend more than most of us could dream about on a game idea is just offensive.

Also, re: Police Warfare:
I saw that project myself when the campaign started. My immediate thought was 'who the hell would want to play as a bunch of arsehole cops?'. I honestly suspect that has more to do with their failure than the programmer thing, although the latter couldn't have helped.

[lordcooper]

I'd love to play as an arsehole cop.

[Flying Dice]

I'd love to play as an arsehole cop.

If only to repeatedly smuggle vehicles and weapons to the other side.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Any time someone is promising a computer game and doesn't have an actual programmer on the team is already half way to failing. In any case where some person is trying to sell an idea for a game without any actual programming done is trying to sell you something that is statistically almost worth less then free.

[Servant Corps]

Here's the dirty secret; Kickstarter is based on the "honor system", so there is a real chance that a people can crowdfund something and not receive anything in return.

On the SomethingAwful thread, I was alerted to Eyez™ by ZionEyez HD Video Recording Glasses for Facebook, a project that has raised $343,415 in July 2011 but had not yet sent out any products and had since suffered numerous delays in actually producing the product while not adequately communicating or keeping in touch with their backers. Last update was in April 2012, and some of the backers are begining to think that they were being cheated.

Take a look at the comments, they seem very important.

[lordcooper]

Antagonistic attitudes won't be helping them at all.

[Leafsnail]

Am I missing some kind of tongue in cheek joke or is their branding really weird?  Why are they called Zion?  Why are they calling it "the movement" like it's some shadowy cult?

Also they seem to still be updating at least (2 weeks ago is reasonably recent), but you'd really hope they'd have put out something else.

[Wayward Device]

But surely a trip to "not Thailand" is the best way to design...facebook glasses? Not really sure what their product is, actually. After $343,000 dollars, they had better at least have that x-ray vision up and running...

[MrWiggles]

Spoiler: Eyez Post (click to show/hide)

 

Here's the dirty secret; Kickstarter is based on the "honor system", so there is a real chance that a people can crowdfund something and not receive anything in return.

On the SomethingAwful thread, I was alerted to Eyez™ by ZionEyez HD Video Recording Glasses for Facebook, a project that has raised $343,415 in July 2011 but had not yet sent out any products and had since suffered numerous delays in actually producing the product while not adequately communicating or keeping in touch with their backers. Last update was in April 2012, and some of the backers are begining to think that they were being gyped.

Take a look at the comments, they seem very important.

It hasn't been a year yet since they've received their backing. Its a physical product, that they're refining for mass production. That can take a while. There hardware they have to make design, get resources for manufacturing, and the first couple of prototypes wont be production but for iteration of testing and feedback. They also probably have to make software & firmware for the damn things in concert with the hardware.

And the post update they made in April seems to be pretty substantive with their current progress.

[Servant Corps]

True, but I am going to monitor this project to see what will happen next.

[MrWiggles]

True, but I am going to monitor this project to see what will happen next.

Oh, sure nothing wrong with keeping an eye on them.

[Wayward Device]

True, but I am going to monitor this project to see what will happen next.

Oh, sure nothing wrong with keeping an eye on them.

The punz are strong in this one...

[PTTG??]

True, but I am going to monitor this project to see what will happen next.

Oh, sure nothing wrong with keeping an eye on them.

The punz are strong in this one...

Eye don't get it.

[MrWiggles]

XD I didnt mean to have a pun.

[Wayward Device]

XD I didnt mean to have a pun.

Today has been a ☼good day☼.¹

True, but I am going to monitor this project to see what will happen next.

Oh, sure nothing wrong with keeping an eye on them.

The punz are strong in this one...

Eye don't get it.

eye believe that the puns aren't going to last long, nor be very punny.

then again, this is B12, home of the tree pun.

What a wooden response. My cousin Iris agrees.

1.Did anyone else read that as "Toady"?. I think the part of my brain that deals with words is going to sleep.