When I talk to the police about this, I have to explain what crowd funding is, and how I think this problem should be approached. Crowdfunding empowered me, and now crime has brought me to a halt. My business partner and the Financial Manager of Peachy Printer, David Boe, has stolen a large portion of the crowd sourced money. “I ran a campaign in Canada for The Peachy Printer – a 3D printer project that raised over half a million in just 30 days – but now I’m in a very tough position. Unfortunately, at the time Boe was in the process of building a new home, and decided to start dipping into Peachy Printer funds to help complete it. When the corporate business bank account had finally been opened Boe immediately transferred $200,000 over to it, leaving the remaining funds in his own accounts. Rather than setting up a business bank account, all of the Kickstarter funds - $587,435.73 worth - were sent directly to Boe’s personal bank account. The problem, as seems typical with almost all of the successfully funded campaigns that end up collapsing, was an astonishing lack of, well, common sense. The leaked videos they have scrubbed from the discord tell you more about the project state than NDS ever will.In a shocking update on Kickstarter today, as well as recently released two videos, Grayston finally came clean about his partner’s embezzlement of more than $320,000 of the Kickstarter funds. The fact that they had to pad it out with props and cosplay speaks volumes

That's the biggest shame in all of this.' It's very clear that the backers are just viewed as a nuisance and baggage they'd rather do without. It may turn out to be a great game, that's exactly what we all paid to support all those years ago, but to be sure - there is certainly no actual sense of appreciation or gratitude to the backers that made it possible. Instead, gackers don't get access to it at all, and all information is provided to the press at Gamescom, and backers are told to read the media articles if they want to learn about the game. Our backers are our most important audience, so you get to see it first'. Originally posted by KickStarter: 'Currently, we’re planning the backer beta as we want you to be the first to play the game.' If Nightdive actually cared about the backers in even the smallest way, you'd have provided the Gamescom demo to backers _before_ Gamescom and say 'Here's what we'll be demoing at Gamescom.

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