My Time at Portia, An adventure inspired by Animal Crossing, Dark Cloud 2, Harvest Moon

Thank you! I'm interested in the game so once I get extra cash I'll definitely be a backer :3

Still. You burn someone, you can't just say "sorry" and expect them to forgive you at face value.

Yeah. I mean, I can be quite forgiving of a games flaws provided it gives you something to work with in return. Spore was especially super-hyped and as a creative sort I was fanatically waiting to get my hands on it. When it turned out to be hollow and lacking in core gameplay, it was a sour disappointment but the editors were at least a nice outlet.

Planet Explorers ended up playing like a bad MMO, consisting of mostly fetch quests in an unpopulated landscape. Even the progression of materials was weird, because you shot up through the basic wood, stone and bronze and then ended up at a bunch of progression walls, where you needed to complete missions that didn't scale properly to your point of progress, just to be able to buy the material scanners you needed. I remember one of them was to kill a big creature and bring its shell back, but all the materials (and vehicle weapons) I had access to didn't even chip its health bar a single blip (and that was with deliberately harvesting stuff to make an APC with vehicle-mounted guns I thought were way ahead of the curve). I was optimistic about the editors but they ended up being painfully clunky to work with too. I can at least appreciate how the editors turned out like that, given how they try to deal with advanced voxel stuff, but the mission progression at the very least is a matter of balancing.

Early Access and Crowdfunding is a great tool, but a lot of groups lose motivation once the initial burst of purchases is over. Game development can be full of major issues that require refitting and rethinking, and it sucks that so many seem to lose hope or just give up. It's especially true of games with multiplayer focus, because the early access folk play before all the content is in place, then get bored and plan to return later (which gives the illusion that nobody is playing and the game is dead on arrival to the later waves of joiners).

I still hope they prove our doubts wrong though

Didn't see a demo sadly, can't wait for the game. It is saying June 2018 so we will have to wait :'(