The problem is when the team has no project management experience, they probably underestimate the contingencies factoring into development time, specifically pertaining to the programming part (i.e. the QA and debugging portion which is inseparable from it).
This, quite a bit this. I'm sure they walked in with a "common sense" approach and everything, but there's a fairly good reason that PM formal training has become a fairly major business over the last few decades, and it's because, if learned properly, it saves companies from situations like these, or at least permits timely recovery. If Aterdux hadn't found that "whale", what would they be doing now? Saying that sorry guys, we ran out of money? Making a new KS?
But meh, I can understand it in their case, they seem to be more of an idealist bunch, you know, the sort of people that have talent and vision and want to eventually feed themselves with what they're passionate about, I can dig that. People like that are usually shit with finances and management, so if they were fortunate enough
maybe they got someone to their team that's more down-to-earth or maybe even savvy in the PM field.
But what I don't get is the larger KS teams with experienced crews. Yes, I'll gladly support them because, hey, they promise something that I actually want, and maybe will even deliver on it, BUT, with the exception of Larian, I'm actually sort of on the err-ing side of things towards them because they have stretch goals and all, but they present no "financial accountability" items like project plan, milestones/goals, rudimentary schedules, costs, you know, the boring shit that would give people the idea of what the actual thing might turn out to cost/how long it might take/what the potential issues are. And knowing Obsidian's issues working on multiple projects, or project/program management, I'm wondering if they actually
have this sort of a thing set up, or if they're just a team of well-meaning, well-trained professionals without a rigid plan of action.
Still, I've supported many of the promising KS projects, and I can't say I regret it by any means, even though it's meant double-funding both with private and Codex donations.
This shit gets better and better. It's just a big "fuck you" to the Kickstarter backers. Now that they have all these deals signed, they can safely dismiss and ignore their KS "compromises".
