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Burning Lands CEO/Lead Developer scamming Kickstarter backers and his own developers.

Summary

The indie game studio 'Zero Hour Interactive' which has passionate Milsim game modders-turned-game developers, making their first game Burning Lands has caused major controversy this weekend when their first game; which started it's Kickstarter campaign 15 days ago turned out to be no longer in development as the game developers went on strike hours before the campaign started. This was first came to light on Friday when an AMA on the Burning Lands Discord went south when the ChanceBrahh/Lead Developer/CEO banned his fellow game developers from attending the AMA which lead them to make their own AMA at the same time which aired the dirty laundry of what was going on and how people who have pledged over $60,000+ USD for a game that isn't actually being developed.

 

The Kickstarter has lost 600+ backers as well lost thousands of $USD of what was pledged but ChanceBrahh chose to not inform anyone of what was going on before the campaign began as well as refusing to suspend the campaign.

Quotes

Quotes are covered in short YouTube videos which also has screenshots of their dealings with ChanceBrahh

My thoughts

I find this news interesting because 1) This Kickstarter is still running even though people are pulling out of it and 2) ChanceBrahh, the CEO is trying to use the money from this Kickstarter to outsource the game developers.

 

Sources

The Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zerohourinteractive/burning-lands-vietnam

YouTubers who have the breakdown and their own personal DM's of ChanceBrahh

 

 

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Scam is a bit of a reach here. Technically speaking all kickstarter projects are a scam until they deliver. What this is a management crisis.

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Was sad to see this. I am a huge Hell Let Loose player and I backed Burning Lands from the start and kept active on their Discord.  Going out to call it a scam is not right whoever, its management issues. Luckily I got my money refunded.

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Of course his handle would have "brah" in it. Fitting.

“The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you are emotionally detached from it. I have always viewed it from a safe distance, knowing I don't belong; it doesn't include me, and it never has. no matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.” ― George Carlin

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It's kickstarter...not sure what they were expecting

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