"I let the backers down, I let our amazing Discord moderating team down by putting them into an impossible situation, and I let our fans down. While the statement does not disavow Arch in particular, it also does not mention him by name. Instead of leading the team with competency, I let conflicting messages, posts and statements appear on our communication channels." The statement leaves out how the studio ended up collaborating with such a controversial figure. I am not a PR expert (as evidenced by Saturday’s events) I'm just a regular old software guy who sailed into some very uncharted waters! As a result I made multiple mistakes with communication and take full personal responsibility for the incompetency. Following the publishing of the video, things got out of hand. In the future I will ensure we promote the game by letting the team do what they do best – animate awesome videos and trailers.Posting on Subverse's Kickstarter page, a developer named Tibor provided a summary without addressing the controversy in any specific terms: "We just finished some neat gameplay and wanted to show it off on Youtube. The StudioFOW boys and girls are producing something amazing behind-the-scenes and instead of providing them with a calm work environment, my actions put them into a very uncomfortable situation. I can see they are giving it their 100% every day which is why it is disappointing that under my watch this mess happened. Most importantly, I have to stress that the devs did nothing wrong. We always put whatever funds we have available into the team and making the game better. I want to reassure the backers that we did not spend any Kickstarter money on paid advertising or youtuber influencing. This is a game to be enjoyed by everyone, and the last thing I wanted to do was create division within the fanbase. I let the backers down, I let our amazing Discord moderating team down by putting them into an impossible situation, and I let our fans down. Instead of leading the team with competency, I let conflicting messages, posts and statements appear on our communication channels. I am not a PR expert (as evidenced by Saturday’s events) I’m just a regular old software guy who sailed into some very uncharted waters!Īs a result I made multiple mistakes with communication and take full personal responsibility for the incompetency. We just finished some neat gameplay and wanted to show it off on Youtube. As part of my role, the devs are currently reporting to me. Let me introduce myself, my name is Tibor and lately I am overseeing the software and financial side of Subverse’s development. (This is excluding if you put down cash equal to the amount of a FULL backer tier. If you forgot to set a tier, I will be going through the list of forgetful-backers and assigning them to their proper tier sets. Keys for other things like the Studio 69 DLC will be delivered later on.Ĭrap! I forgot to set my pledge tier! What do I do?! Once that is done, we will be sending out surveys (one per tier) to collect emails and other information to deliver rewards as needed.Īfter we get enough replies, we will begin sending out keys in waves. The first two weeks of May will be quiet in terms of rewards due to the fact we have to wait for payment processing to finish. £1,668,626 given by 58,730 backers! (Subject to change due to processing failures etc.) Will you be allowing late backers via paypal etc? May 1st 6PM EST was the time the campaign concluded. SUBVERSE ANNOUNCEMENT - Release window and strategy, plus a nearly one-hour gameplay video!!
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