Call to Arms Announced

[RooksBailey]

The people who brought us the excellent Men of War: Assault Squad have announced a new game in the series entitled Call to Arms (trite, but whatever).  This time it is going to be a modern RTS!

http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/products/call-to-arms

I am curious as to why it is going to be crowd sourced as Digitalmindsoft is an established company with a publisher's backing (1C).  I also question the idea of crowd sourcing through their own service and not Kickstarter or Steam's Green Light (both of which I suspect would get them more publicity).

Regardless, I am keeping an eye on this one.

[LongBlade]

I am curious as to why it is going to be crowd sourced as Digitalmindsoft is an established company with a publisher's backing (1C).  I also question the idea of crowd sourcing through their own service and not Kickstarter or Steam's Green Light (both of which I suspect would get them more publicity).

Two thoughts - one glib, one not.

First one is OPM: Other People's Money. Why front the money yourself when you can get someone else to front theirs at zero interest?

Second one: game publishing is a risky business. Costs are real while profits are not. You still have to pay the light bill, the developers, the creative folks, and you never know when a crazy bug will add another week of development time/cost to you heap of other costs. OTOH you never know how profitable a game will be. Anything that can be done to decrease the financial stress/risk of publishing a game should be considered.

Probably it's a combination of the two of those. They're using their own service because then they don't pay a fee to Kickstarter, Inc or whoever.