Cita:Recapitulando:
1.) West Games lanza un Kickstarter. Kickstarter que dicen que está desarrollado por antiguos devs de STALKER y METRO.
2.) Vostok Games, a través de su manager de prensa, acusan a West Games de fraude, alegando que no hay ningún ex-compañero de STALKER y METRO.
3.) West Games dice que eso es falso. Que si tiene en la plantilla gente que trabajó en STALKER y METRO.
4.) West Games llama a Vostok Games, y estos dicen no saber nada de lo que ha ocurrido.
Pero ojo, leyendo ahora mismo esto: http://www.vg247.com/2014/06/25/s-t-a-l-...d-threats/
Parece ser que si, que Vostok Games los ha acusado.
Según Oleg Yavorsky, de Vostok, West Games está usando arte de STALKER ilegalmente y haciendolo pasar por arte de AREAL, el kickstarter lanzado.
Me he quedado un poco WAT con la noticia.
Parece ser, que estos que dicen ser ex-desarrolladores de STALKER y Metro, no lo son.
El Kickstarter:
http://33bits.es/foro/index.php?topic=20682.0
Según Joe Mullin, PR Manager de Vostok Games (antigua GSC Game World), West Games no son antiguos desarrolladores de STALKER y Metro. Ya están con los abogados tomando las medidas necesarias para enfrentar este "supuesto" fraude"
Cita:Vostok Games was formed in 2012 out of the ashes of GSC Game World. Mullin says that West-Games is nothing to do with GSC or the STALKER series, noting, "We have contacted GSC's lawyers regarding this fraudulent claim of being the developers of Stalker and Metro Last Light. Please do all you can do ensure people know these claims are false."
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/21970...claims.php
Sabía que había algo en el asunto que no me olía bien, a esperar a ver que pasa.
Pues imaginate la cara de los que lo han backeado... que no son pocos.
(25-06-2014 10:07)Janito link [ -> ]Pues imaginate la cara de los que lo han backeado... que no son pocos.
Pueden retirar sus donaciones hasta que acabe.
Claro, lo malo sería si esto se descubre después de acabar. No es el primer kickstarter que retiro la pasta.
De todas formas, han dado explicaciones:
Cita:Project Update #1: Massive First Update:
Posted by West Games
    This will probably be the longest update that we'll post, but we feel that it's needed 
. Thank you all for the incredible amount of support that you've given us, and thanks to everyone who has commented on our Kickstarter, Facebook and Twitter so far. We want to clarify a couple of things, with the first thing being the history of West Games.
      As most of you know, a studio called GSC game world existed until 2011 and they were responsible for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. After GSC dissolved, 2 new studios formed that consisted of former S.T.AL.K.E.R. employees: Vostok Games and 4A games. In 2013, a new company formed called West games, which consists of many former senior staff members from the now dissolved GSC Game World.
┬á ┬á Since then we've expanded (check out the ÔÇ£Our Core TeamÔÇØ section) and have been working on a project that you all know as Areal. Areal is based on a book of the same name written by Tarmashev (tarmashev.com). And now we're at present day and handling the launch of our Kickstarter (Ievgeniia and our PR guys have been a big help with that).
    Now that our mini history lesson is out of the way, we can move on to other things! Regarding in-game footage, we have worked on various engines to thoroughly examine as well as learn about how different technologies and resources work. This development process is what we tried to convey in our trailer. Doing this allows us to maximize frame-rate and graphical fidelity in our game.
    Many people have asked if our focus will be on single player and if having a multiplayer mode will affect that focus. We can without a doubt say that single player and story is the number one priority for our game. Multiplayer will be added if we reach 500,000 dollars in funding, but we will make sure that it doesn't affect the quality of single player.
    PC aficionados are also worried that our game will be watered down to look the same as on consoles. This will never be the case, and graphical fidelity will not be sacrificed in any way because of consoles.
    Thanks again for all your support! We're sure that we will surpass our Kickstarter goal if we keep going like this. Eugene Kim is also going to be doing an Ask me Anything later this week on reddit, so keep an eye out and ask him anything there. Future updates will be posted frequently, and will partially serve as answers to the mayhem that is the comments section 
.
Check out the news articles about us: https://www.google.com/search?q=Areal+Ki...ff&tbm=nws
Like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/areal.game/timeline
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArealWestGames
and go to our website: areal.west-games.com
--Eugene Kim
Founder of West Games
Pues realmente no aclaran nada
Dicen que es un tercer estudio que salio de GSC. Ahora bien, si queda o no alguien es algo que espero que se aclare antes de que acabe.
En principio el juego se ve trabajado lo que han presentado. No tiene pinta de ser un timo... Como mucho que se aprovechen de un nombre que no les corresponda.
Yo voy a esperar también.
Hombre, si el producto que muestran interesa veo bien que se les dé pasta, pero que hayan mentido sobre esto me parecería lamentable y mucha gente quitaría su dinero de ahí con toda la razón del mundo.
Será triste que tengas que tirar de renombre para atraer la atención de la gente cuando tu producto de por sí puede ser muy interesante, pero eso no justifica en absoluto atribuirte méritos falsos para generar publicidad y atraer ingresos a base de mentiras. A ver en qué queda todo.
Project Update #2: Addressing Vostok Games
We have contacted Vostok Games about their supposed claim that we are fraudulent. They say that they have no relation to that claim and have since deleted the forum topic (https://forum.survarium.com/en/viewtopic...=3450#wrap) wherein a moderator accused us of being fake. The Kickstarter comments section has been completely hijacked by a couple of people, and even if we comment there, our posts will be ignored and buried. Misery LTD in particular is developing another post apocalyptic video game and is stirring controversy to attract people to his Kickstarter project. I hope that you, our supporters, can see through this delibirate negativity and help us make an awesome game with Areal. Update 2 is coming later today, and will clarify things even further.
--Eugene Kim
Fuente
Ojalá se hubiera hecho en su día un KS para Stalker 2, nos habríamos ahorrado tanta mierda
Según el segundo update parece que les están boicoteando y no es cosa de Vostok games.
A ver como avanza, pero sin duda les han jodido bien.