Kickstarter is showing us just how out of touch and irrelevant the publishers have become. If its not an MMO or a shooter, a PC game has almost no chance of being greenlighted..and the situation isn’t much better on consoles. The only exceptions are when we see cash stores and PvP being crammed into games where those ideas simply don’t work. Meanwhile, entire genres with dedicated player followings are ignored by the bean counters. I hope Brian Fargo makes so much $$ on Wasteland 2 that he can buy EA and make it a publishing co-op! At the rate EA’s worth is declining, its not such a crazy idea.

EA is not the only publisher.

EA is not the only publisher thats been losing money year after year , milking what were once hugely popular and creative ips till they are Dead.

I agree Kickstarter does show quite clearly that most of todays Publishing companies are very much irrelavant, and they know it. With todays broadband and digital distribution, everyone wants to be Steam. Most of them with the attitude of wanting the customers dollars, Thank god Gabe and the rest built steam with the most lucrative of marketing ideas and mission statements.. Satisfying Customers. Many dollars have followed.

69,762
Backers

$3,645,044
pledged of $1,100,000 goal

as of 5 hours to go,

and its DRM free, suck on that [insert girder here]