Missed opportunity to have him rubbing his hands together.
Most KS cheer and get congratulated for amounts that must seem like the most digits they had in one place in their life. They set their goals for [BIG(?) AMOUNT], they can do it!
SUCCESS!
lol
Only do ever a few of them even bother to realistically calculate Time * Expenses = $
Even the SDG "mentors" giving some revelation about how it works are just now presenting their realization of (Startup Overhead + (Time * Expenses)) = $
The thing SDG should be questioning is how much they are to be encouraging others to develop out of their means, since those two have been clearly... challenged.
Then again, most of the vaporware devs like this (and other KS fails to deliver like Kinectic Void's questionable state and more) have a basic failure to understand (Production / Interval) = Time
Do you get a certain amount of content or features completed per month? Or do you just deliver a portrait someone else did while talking about the basics of hint hint nudge nudge plagiarism? How long will your development take and cost?
One rando does not an Ultima game make in any decade soon; Richard knew this himself as repayment for the public criticism Corv did for Shroud of the Avatar on Reddit before going DFE and sucking up for endorsement. But even Richard could tell that horrible intro was nothing that would sit well with the core of Ultima fans, for how far off it was, ergo Richard's involvement was to drive up expectations that Corv could not deliver upon.
Richard knew this because he keeps failing to deliver on his own reputation.
This is why I think Richard, for all his experience and expertise he would boast about, would know what state development for Corven was in. His promotion can be his responsibility, too.
Also...
It's actually (1.20 (+20%) Aditional Contingency * (Production / Interval) = Time
The weird thing is that all of these KS are run by supposedly functional adults, but they're running in by the encouragement of some of the dodgier institutions like kids being sold student loans they'll never repay.
KS is quite literally a loan on your reputation for your ability to deliver; some start out with a shit credit rating and have been encouraged into giant predatory loans with tons of interest. Then they graduate "Kickstarter University of Game Development" and find out that there really isn't an industry job waiting for them.
That was it.
These nostalgiafagbaits are a too-common Steam Early Access meme. Just wait until these folks hit their "LumberingTroll" phase.
It'll be great!
