I was going to do a post about game design today, built around yesterday's Q&A by the leader of the World of Warcraft team, but then this happened:
That's right. Hours after Bleeding Cool published an even-handed interview with Vox Day, Indiegogo not only shut down the already-concluded and very successful campaign for Alt-Hero: Q, they also refunded every backer (when that money should have already been disbursed to Arkhaven Comics) and perma-banned Arkhaven Comics from the platform altogether. The Supreme Dark Lord decided that this need immediate addressing, and so took it up during last night's Darkstream.
One does not cross the Dark Lord like this and expect impunity. The Vile Faceless Minions have been unleashed with orders to dig, and dig they shall. What they find will only strengthen the eventual choice for reprisal, as it is highly unlikely that what Indiegogo did is wholly legal- not with that much money involved, and certainly not when it should have already been in Arkhaven's hands. SJWs are stupid motherfuckers, so the odds of them being so thorough are slim to none; it's only a matter of time before the crack is found and then leverage can be applied- and I think a crack's already been found (a likely prior example already came up before 11pm Central Time last night).
Get your popcorn and notebooks ready folks. This will be both fun and educational.
Bradford,
ReplyDeletethis is a major clusterfuck of epic proportions. It not so much Vox who you just don't cross or Chuck Dixon. It's the possible defrauding. Specifically the unexpected refund with no motivation (in the French sense of providing a motive for a decision). The whole thing reeks of a very bad improvisation job based on a psychotic overreaction to whatever.
This will set some alot of precedents that'll shape the common law countries and influence the civil law countries on what organized crowdfunding can and can't do. All this will be codified in new legislation
xavier