Comment by qsi

5 years ago

It's probably the single most blatant gaming-related fundraiser scam I've personally come across... but they got YC backing.

It'll take quite a bit to beat Star Citizen.

I don't understand the YC backing either though.

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danso  5 years ago

Star Citizen is a decade-spanning imploding trainwreck, but there’s no doubt that it’s helmed by ambitious and notable gamedev veterans.

Dreamworld doesn’t even have notably padded resumes, and it’s flimsy even by the low standards of shoddy Kickstarter MMO campaigns. To be honest, when I saw it claiming to be a member of YC, I assumed it was touting a participant award (i.e. it applied to YC, but wasn’t necessarily accepted), or was engaged in some other outright deception. Anything seemed more probable than them actually getting YC investment

  • Grustaf  5 years ago

    Yeah I had to go back and forth between the HN headline and the page 4 times. I couldn't believe I read it correctly, did it really, REALLY say "YC".

unionpivo  5 years ago

Star Citizen is allready a game.

It's not particularly good one[*], and it's missing a lot of promised features, but you can actually, fly the ships, have combat, trade some, walk in ships etc.

I am not defending them, because It probably will end up in tears, but they already delivered some.

Although clearly in pre alpha state, is more stable than some recent releases by major studios.

chevill  5 years ago

I can't remember the name of it but there was another one a year or maybe a few years ago where they were it was going to be an MMO that's an alternate earth where you can be anything. AAA photorealistic graphics, lots of IRL jobs exist in detail. It could be an action game but for example cars would have all of their IRL systems modeled realistically and would require maintenance.

They launched with a trailer that looked so cool everyone knew it was a scam and everyone called it out immediately so it got pulled.