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Why Broken Age is in that group? I think it had a much lower expectation to start with, but also the delay to launch wasnt absurd and the end product is quite

• kalcode 8y ago
  Broken Age from start to finish took less than three years to make and went over-budget but still managed to complete the game by creating the two parts into chapters to get early sales outside the original kickstarters. People who have never managed or been part of managing big projects with deadlines don't understand that. They see the above as a failure rather than obstacles that they succeeded in getting over and releasing a moderate to good game.
• Kurtz79 8y ago
  The game was largely overfunded, and yet they had to rely on splitting the game in two acts and rely on the sales from the first to fund additional development. I agree that among the titles I mentioned is the less disastrous, but is still an example of developers being given a large amount of money and almost free reigns, and delivering something late and below expectations (I played the game as well, it was decent but really not that remarkable).
  • soneca 8y ago
    It was overfunded on Kickstarter, but then they - very transparently - expanded the scope of the game. They delivered a documentary series, with a high production quality, while they were developing the game that was incredible to follow. The communication through the forum during the development was excellent, transparent and informative. I was very hyped about the game and it was not below my expectations. I enjoyed every minute of playing. It is not the best point-and-click adventure of all times if that was your expectation. I believe it is nonsense to put in this list as well as comparing to the situation of the OP