Kickstarter for an already greenlit game involved with the Square Enix Collective.
What's the point of Collective if you still have to kickstarter?
There is no point, it's a nonsense service that makes no sense and benefits no one.
The stated premise of it is that you submit your idea to Collective, and benefit from free feedback from viewers. This feedback helps you decide whether to continue to crowdfunding or not. If you do continue to crowdfunding, Square Enix has a sponsored page on IndieGoGo, which will bring you more visibility (one project from Collective has tried this, it didn't come remotely close to hitting its target goal). In exchange, they act as a sort of hands-off publisher and get a cut of your sales in the end.
The problem is:
- The feedback isn't useful
- No one cares about Collective
- No one cares about IndieGoGo
- Square Enix isn't contributing a value add
So far, here are the stats on Square Enix collective
- 8 projects have received poor feedback and not continued on
- 7 projects have received positive feedback but are apparently not positive enough because they have not continued on and are marked archived
- 6 projects have received positive feedback and have not yet been archived or continued on
- 4 projects are currently awaiting feedback
- 1 project went through IndieGoGo through Collective and failed to be funded and is now "archived"
- 1 project went through Kickstarter through Collective and was a smash success
- 1 project is now on Kickstarter through Collective