cecil: KRZ looks fun but yeah I am really questioning the whole lets put out 1/4 or 1/2 a game then HOPE people buy it and devs get money and or bother to finish it...
Leroux: Yeah, I mean this is not Kickstarter, it's not labeled as Early Access, it's just sold as a full version package (that isn't complete yet) - and it's quite costly, too. With other episodic games sold like this, e.g. Dreamfall Chapters, Life is Strange etc., at least they get completed within 1-2 years, but KRZ was released 3 years ago and is still only half-complete. I wonder how many people would have bought it back then if they had known it would take 5 years or longer before they'd see the last episode ...
Haste makes waste and all that, nothing to be said against taking your time to ensure it's a quality product, but as a business model there's something wrong with it.
The fun thing about KRZ is that customers are still defending the devs release "plan" and say that this is just the only way that this game can be that good. Imo this game is nice but it's not worth waiting for years for a single episode which doj't last longer than an hour or two. I have purchased the game and meanwhile I have already forgotten everything about the plot or the characters.
I once wrote them that I fear to have dies before they have released the full game for which I already payed for. This is what they replied 09/2015:
"Thanks for getting in touch. Videogame development is complicated and
unpredictable at any scale, and this one's taking longer than we
expected, but we feel it'll be worth the time and attention we're
giving it. We agree that it's important to release Act IV before any
of our players die, and all we can do is keep working hard on it. You
can help by donating to the American Heart Association to help fight
heart disease, a leading cause of death worldwide --
https://donatenow.heart.org/"
Not funny given the fact that they already have my money.