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6 total messages Started by rms Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:24
Outcast Remake: Coming soon!
#697943
Author: rms
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:24
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I backed their failed kickstarter a year or two ago, looks like it's coming 
anyway later this year.  Good news!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/618970/Outcast__Second_Contact/

rms 
Re: Outcast Remake: Coming soon!
#697944
Author: Mike S.
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:26
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On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 09:24:18 -0600, "rms"
<rsqui...@MOOyossmanMOO.net> wrote:

>I backed their failed kickstarter a year or two ago, looks like it's coming 
>anyway later this year.  Good news!
>http://store.steampowered.com/app/618970/Outcast__Second_Contact/
>
>rms 

Do you get your money back when a kickstarter fails?
Re: Outcast Remake: Coming soon!
#697945
Author: rms
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:48
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>Do you get your money back when a kickstarter fails?

    You're not charged until it succeeds.

rms
Re: Outcast Remake: Coming soon!
#697946
Author: rri... Ross Ridge
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:34
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Mike S.  <Mik...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>Do you get your money back when a kickstarter fails?

If the Kickstarter doesn't meet its funding target by the deadline then
no one's credit card gets billed.  If the Kickstarter gets funded,
but doesn't end up delivering on its promises then it's up to the
people who got the Kickstater money to give it back.  If the company
spent all of the money and went bankrupt, you're not getting anything.
If it was nothing more than a scam to begin with, you're out of luck.
In a few rare cases though companies have refunded Kickstarter backers
when they failed to live up to their promises.  One notable example was
Pebble giving refunds after they were bought out and shut down by FitBit.

					Ross Ridge

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Re: Outcast Remake: Coming soon!
#697948
Author: Ned Kelly
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:43
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rms schrieb:
> I backed their failed kickstarter a year or two ago, looks like it's
> coming anyway later this year.  Good news!
> http://store.steampowered.com/app/618970/Outcast__Second_Contact/

Maybe know our CPUs and GPUs are fast
enough to handle the voxel-engine.

IIRC I had to play in 480 x 640 back
in 1999. But it looked great with the
smooth enviroment, as if it was in
tesselation all over the screen.
-- 
Ciao, Ned.
Re: Outcast Remake: Coming soon!
#697947
Author: Mike S.
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 23:42
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On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 17:34:28 +0000 (UTC), rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
(Ross Ridge) wrote:

>If the Kickstarter doesn't meet its funding target by the deadline then
>no one's credit card gets billed.  If the Kickstarter gets funded,
>but doesn't end up delivering on its promises then it's up to the
>people who got the Kickstater money to give it back.  If the company
>spent all of the money and went bankrupt, you're not getting anything.
>If it was nothing more than a scam to begin with, you're out of luck.
>In a few rare cases though companies have refunded Kickstarter backers
>when they failed to live up to their promises.  One notable example was
>Pebble giving refunds after they were bought out and shut down by FitBit.
>
>					Ross Ridge

Thank you for this post.
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