Sword Of The Necromancer Kickstarter Suffers Heavy Blow From “Troll” Backer

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Recently, we reported on Sword of the Necromancer, a brand-new Kickstarter campaign for an upcoming dungeon-crawler RPG wishing to introduce on Switch. In specific, the game captured our eye thanks to the designer’s guarantee to use the Switch’s IR electronic camera, something that is hardly ever seen even within first- party releases.

The game raised over 100% of its preliminary goal in less than 24hours The success indicated that a number of stretch objectives might be completely released, with a structure from both Dale North and Emi Evans soon being opened, too. All was going swimmingly well, however things took a worrying turn on Monday, 13 th April.

On that day, designer Grimorio of Games shared an update with those who had actually vowed their assistance to alert them about a capacity “troll” backer. “It is our duty to inform all our backers that we received an unusual amount of 8,500€ from a single backer who didn’t even choose a reward tier,” it stated.

“That was (for us) on the night of Saturday, receiving this amount meant that we reached the two stretch goals at once. We have tried to contact this backer, who is not registered on Kickstarter (they pledged as a Guest) without success. We have also have tried to contact Kickstarter regarding this issue but got no response”

Sword of the Necromancer art work, drawn from the game’s Kickstarter page

The designer goes on to discuss that it’s not uncommon to see backers reclaim big promises at the last minute in an effort to mess up acampaign If the big promise was gotten rid of, it alerted that it may have to cancel the last stretch goal.

In another upgrade which followed quickly later on, the team was shown right, regretfully needing to inform backers that one of the stretch objectives that had actually apparently been accomplished was now unfunded.

“As expected, our ” Giant Backer” withdrew their pledge as soon as we talked about reaching the stretch goals. So we’re back to the Colosseum Mode stretch goal.”

Luckily, even with this ridiculous effort at damaging a game’s launch, Sword of the Necromancer still has sufficient assistance to make it over its preliminary finish line. There are still 22 days to go if you’re interested in checking it out for yourself.

Neela
Neela
I work as the Content Writer for Gaming Ideology. I play Quake like professionally. I love to write about games and have been writing about them for two years.

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