A Timeline Of Unsung Story, One Of The Biggest Kickstarter Failures Ever. It was supposed to be a dream game for fans of strategy role playing games, but instead it became a disaster. Unsung Story, which crowdfunded over 6. Kickstarter failures of all time. Lets zoom out and look at the whole debacle, shall we Last night, the company Playdek announced that it has bailed on Unsung Story, handing over the development rights to another company. Its the culmination of nearly four years worth of shady behavior, broken promises, and wasted money. To give you a sense of just how big a failure Unsung Story has been, Ive put together an entire timeline of events from the past four years. Its pretty remarkable to see it all in one place. Lets start from the beginning. September 1. 8, 2. Final Fantasy Tactics Yasumi Matsuno makes a grand announcement alongside the board game company Playdek, he will be developing two games in a universe called Unsung Story. One of those games will be a digital card game, and the other will be a strategy game. In a press release, Playdek says that both games will be out by the end of 2. January 1. 4, 2. 01. After staying quiet on the project for a while, Playdek makes another big announcement theyre crowdfunding Unsung Story, with a goal of 6. Kickstarter. It sounds like the dream game for Final Fantasy Tactics fans, promising to re imagine a classic game genre, as Yasumi Matsuno weaves together one of the complex and rich game worlds that he is known for, with inspiring class based tactics game play. Theres no mention of the digital card game or, for that matter, anything about multiplayer. The estimated delivery is July, 2. Atomega is a multiplayer shooter by Ubisoft Reflections, the studio that made Grow Home and Grow Up. It comes out for PC September 19. Microsoft Toolkit 2 4 9 Fully Activated Flux. This is Madden like youve never seen it. 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Playdeks PR company contacts me with a very cool offer Thanks for your recent coverage of Playdeks Unsung Story and the Kickstarter campaign. We may have a really interesting interview opportunity for you. Would you be interested in an interview with Yasumi Matsuno about Unsung Story We would like for the story to run Feb. Q A format. Those two points are very important. I tell them that Id be happy to do the interview, but that I cant let them dictate either the date or the format. Playdeks PR company says theyll get back to me. February 6, 2. 01. I follow up. Their PR responds Sorry it took so long I just found out last night that he wont be able to do this interview. I apologize for any inconvenience. February 1. With just two days left, Unsung Storys Kickstarter campaign is not yet funded. I continue to cover it on Kotaku, perhaps implicitly encouraging readers to support the game, which I would later go on to regret. Update 861. 7 I originally wrote in this graf that I had encouraged Kotaku readers to go back Unsung Story, but upon review, thats not actually the case. February 1. Unsung Story hits its crowdfunding target just a few hours before deadline, raising 6. Shop for ps4 mario bros you will love online at Target. Free shipping and save 5 every day with your Target REDcard. Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League for 11 years as of this week, was asked on FS1s First Things First if he believes Colin Kaepernick should. Madden-16-Tuning-Update-720x540.jpg?resize=720%2C540' alt='Roster Updates For Madden 12 Ps3 Download' title='Roster Updates For Madden 12 Ps3 Download' />In the coming weeks, Playdeks community manager will post a series of mundane updates about the staff and other high level details surrounding the game. March 2. 1, 2. 01. A backer update We will continue with these weekly updates so you know we are still thinking of all of you, and it wont be long before we will be able to share lots of content with you about Unsung Story Great things are on their way In subsequent updates, Playdek talks about the digital card game it had mentioned in September 2. Unsung Storys Kickstarter had talked about a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics, not a card game. July 3. 1, 2. 01. Playdeks community manager gives a timeline of promises for the rest of 2. Unsung Story. The company also clarifies, in response to backer confusion, that the strategy game everyone wants will be happening before they release the digital card game. At the end of this update, Playdek writes We will be back next month to give you another update on our progress on Unsung Story. August, 2. Playdek does not post any new updates. Its the first of many promises that the company will break. September 5, 2. 01. Playdek posts an update, the first of three more throughout 2. Its all basic stuff, including some details on the story and gameplay of Unsung Story. Nothing worth much attention. February 2. 0, 2. Months of silence since the last update November 2. A year after the conclusion of Unsung Storys Kickstarter campaign, Playdek has not yet shown any gameplay, but in a new backer update, the company posts a handful of screenshots. They look. rough. Backers begin to wonder just where their money has gone. May 1. 5, 2. 01. 5 With the original estimated release just two months away, Playdek posts a new Kickstarter update promising that it will release a development timeline over the summer. Development on the game is progressing nicely. As we continue down this path we will finalize a development timeline to share with everyone later this summer. June, 2. There are no updates. July, 2. 01. 5 There are no updates. August, 2. 01. 5 There are no updates. September 2. 1, 2. Joel Goodman, Playdeks CEO, takes to Kickstarter with a dreary update, saying that progress on Unsung Story has moved more slowly than hed hoped. Its not clear why, just three months ago, the company told backers that development was progressing nicely. Goodman says that Playdek has been dealing with financial issues and that theyre looking into working with outside publishers. He also says that Unsung Story will be delayed to 2. Goodman adds As it has been said, these things do happen in game development, and all of us in the industry and without have seen significant delays on some major games and franchises that were previously announced. However, they of course do not have a great KS community involved in the progress of the game as we do, and it is on us for not involving you as much in our process up to this point. The theme here is we will work to rectify that, and will outline the plan going forward, one that we will keep you in the loop henceforth. Then, Goodman casually outlines a development timeline for Unsung Story that will begin with a Pv. P Player vs. Player beta release in June 2. This is the first time that the Unsung Story Kickstarter has ever mentioned the term Pv. P. Backers are alarmed. They gave 6. 60,0. Playdek because they wanted Yasumi Matsunos spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics, not because they wanted a multiplayer game. Goodman later adds that an entire single player experience will be rolled out to all backers, but fans are beginning to lose faith that Unsung Story will ever happen. September 3. 0, 2. During an AMA on Reddit, one backer asks Joel Goodman if he has proof that theres been development on Unsung Story. Goodman writes On the next major update we will have video footage of in game gameplay and will go into more details on the UI development direction. Goodman also makes it clear that Matsunos involvement with Unsung Story has already ended. October 2. 0, 2. 01. Playdek posts an update with the video Goodman promised. It looks horrendous. Next month we will have a more thorough video going over the specifics in combat, the company says. November, 2. 01. 5 There are no updates. December, 2. 01. 5 There are no updates.