Kuten aiemmin uutisoimme täällä, Devin Tripp -niminen parikymppinen mies Teksasista ilmoitti tekevänsä 200 000 dollarilla ”avoimen maailman Star Wars -pelin”, joka vetäisi vertoja The Witcher 3:lle sekä Fallout 4:lle. Viikossa peli ehtikin kerätä liki 20 000 dollaria, mutta nyt pelin Kickstarter-kampanja on suljettu Devinin itsensä toimesta.
Viimeisenä tekonaan Devin Tripp kirjoitti katkeran viestin hänen unelmaansa ivanneille lehdille ja internet-käyttäjille. Devinin mukaan Walt Disneylläkin oli aikoinaan unelma, eikä kukaan häntä haukkunut. Devin myös kertoi, miten ihmiset kiinnittivät aivan liikaa huomiota hänen Kickstarter-sivunsa kirjoitusvirheisiin, sillä hän kirjoitti koko esittelytekstin puhelimellaan, jolloin virheitä tulee varmasti.
Game Informerille antamassaan haastattelussa hän kertoi, ettei hänellä ole minkäänlaista kokemusta pelimaailmasta, ja 200 000 dollaria oli hänestä kiva luku, joka olisi ollut kiva kerätä kasaan.
Kirjeen voit lukea alta. On vähän hankala tarkkaan sanoa, oliko kyseessä kyyninen vedätys-yritys vai hieman hitaalla käyvän pelifanin vilpitön yritys tehdä jotain täysin uudenlaista, mutta valitettavasti homma ei ihan putkeen mennyt.
”I find it very disturbing that you want to report me to them. As if they didn’t already know. You truly want to see some be in debt for the wrest [sic] of their life because they had a dream for a video game that they never created. Very selfish, and very ironic.
Disney was created because Walt Disney had a dream, was it not? I find it ironic because on a lot of the news and the forums there was a quote from something I said. It read ”I have talked to Disney, and they have informed me to contact LucasArts”. I believe most of you said quote ”that’s like a father telling the kid to go ask their mother because they do not want to deal with them”. Yet I recieved [sic] emails from random people basically telling their dad to send me to timeout because they don’t like me.
Secondly, I am taking this Kickstarter down myself. Disney has not contacted me to tell me to shut it down for those of you who think you own Disney. I am taking this Kickstarter down, because I very much respect Disney, and I do not want this to get to big. I love all their pirates of the Caribbean movies. I always wanted to be captain jack, but I think Mr. Depp is to [sic] good to be replaced. I have faith that somewhere in the future, a game like the one I described, will be made by Disney/EA/LucasFilms/Bioware or whoever is going to do it.
Thirdly I know my spelling and grammar sucks, but all you need is the force and you will do ok in life. I wrote the entire thing on my phone while in Childress Texas with a JUAN bar. So I did not care for spelling mistakes, because of that and I really didn’t think I’d actually be doing this. As many of you pointed out I am highly unqualified. The point of this whole Kickstarter is to not let your dreams be dreams. Don’t say tomorrow just do it.”