>I seem to recall reading, a couple months back, how Kickstarted had
>implemented some sort of idea, possibly in response to exactly this or
>at least similar, that when the developers did something of that
>nature, so you could say "this is not what I signed up and payed my
>money for, give me my fucking dough back."

Well, if I had backed Elite Dangerous from that stage, it would have been largely on the prospect of a proper single-player mode, so I would certainly have been pissed off by the bait-and-switch. Whether I would've been pissed off enough to abandon the project altogether, I'm not sure - having come to it after the change, I'm annoyed by the half-assed "multiplayer but not" implementation (partly because there seems to be little reason for it other than saving the developers some work, partly because it combines the disads of online multiplayer with the single-player experience, and partly because it means the game will die when, someday, they eventually shut the servers off), but not annoyed enough to stop me playing. I'd probably even have bought it anyway if I had known exactly how it worked, not being fully aware that they had promised something better and reneged.

But if I had been a supporter from before it even went properly into development? Yeah, I'd want at least some of my money back. Because principles.

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