Zenith: Wow, people are still falling for this Kickstarter junk.

MightyUnclean

A tiny indie team headed by "industry veterans" promises an MMO (this one with VR support thrown in) with a rapid development cycle.  They can do this with $280K in Kickstarter funds and other investor capital that they pinky swear they have obtained.  Of course, the game is still in the concept phase, but don't let that deter you!  How many times are people going to fall for this?  It's all just variations on the same basic theme.  I guess that people will go for anything if it has a compelling sales pitch.

"The Kickstarter rewards suggest a brisk timeline: pre-alpha in three months, closed alpha in six, and the closed beta by August 2020."

"The more important thing to understand is that Kickstarter is not our only source of funding. In fact we already have several other investors (including some of the most prestigious investors in Silicon Valley) and if fact we've raised more money through them than through the KS. 

Suffice it to say that Lauren and I have decades of industry experience and understand exactly how much money this will take.

The Kickstarter will allow us to make the game even better and more polished but it isn't all the money we have."

https://massivelyop.com/2020/01/22/kickstarted-vr-cyberpunk-mmo-zenith-grows-its-team-lays-groundwork-for-pre-alpha/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zenithmmo/zenith-the-fantasy-cyberpunk-mmo-game-for-vr-and-desktop/posts/2598220

Putrefee

"Is there crossplay?

Short answer: Yes. 
Long answer: We can't promise exactly which platforms have crossplay (due to platform limitations). We'll try our best to work around all the platform limitations, though."

There timeline is very ambitious. I've seen discovery take as long as their predicted pre-alpha. 

It is fully funded, it will be interesting to watch. It sounds like a game I would try.

MightyUnclean

Putrefee said:

"Is there crossplay?

Short answer: Yes. 
Long answer: We can't promise exactly which platforms have crossplay (due to platform limitations). We'll try our best to work around all the platform limitations, though."

There timeline is very ambitious. I've seen discovery take as long as their predicted pre-alpha. 

It is fully funded, it will be interesting to watch. It sounds like a game I would try.

It sounds like a game a lot of people would try, if it had a chance of ever making it to release in anything resembling a complete state.  That's where the sales pitch comes in.  After all the times we've seen this same basic pitch fail to result in a successful MMO, I don't understand why people are still willing to throw their money away.  Hope springs eternal, I guess.

Putrefee

MightyUnclean said:

Putrefee said:

"Is there crossplay?

Short answer: Yes. 
Long answer: We can't promise exactly which platforms have crossplay (due to platform limitations). We'll try our best to work around all the platform limitations, though."

There timeline is very ambitious. I've seen discovery take as long as their predicted pre-alpha. 

It is fully funded, it will be interesting to watch. It sounds like a game I would try.

It sounds like a game a lot of people would try, if it had a chance of ever making it to release in anything resembling a complete state.  That's where the sales pitch comes in.  After all the times we've seen this same basic pitch fail to result in a successful MMO, I don't understand why people are still willing to throw their money away.  Hope springs eternal, I guess.

Agreed, I personally would buy crypto cats before investing in this project at this point.

Cryomatrix

Why does it surprise you?

Look at prosperity gospel stuff . . . Or politics

AlBQuirky

Frekcion said:

In my opinion this game is worth

OH! Fill in the blank! I like this

Sovrath

MightyUnclean said:

A tiny indie team headed by "industry veterans" promises an MMO (this one with VR support thrown in) with a rapid development cycle.  They can do this with $280K in Kickstarter funds and other investor capital that they pinky swear they have obtained.  

Actually, they obtained $280k in funds. They asked for 25k.

So the big question is "why?"

Surely they would need more than $25k to make a game. And if they only need "25k" but they have obrtained other funds, why not just get that last remaining 25k from their investors? It's a drop in the bucket compared to what would be needed.

OR, just make the game up to where they need that $25k and then show what they have done and they would surely get that 25k.

edit: I thought they just had the picture. They have shown stuff.

I take back what I said, they seem to have a game. Not my type of game but it looks like there is a game.