Penny Arcade Kickstarter needs to be kicked out.

I’m going to preface this entire post by saying that I have been frequenting the Penny Arcade website for years as well as going to PAX prime whenever possible. However, I think the Penny Arcade’s Kickstarter is dubious at best. While clearly thousands of people are going to disagree with me here, there is no good reason for PA to be using Kickstarter to pay their bills.

So the crux of my complaint here is that nothing is really being started. All of the money is intended to be used to cover the things that their ad revenue currently covers. Nothing new is actually being funded unless you count the hypothetical projects that may happen.  For a quarter of a million dollars, they will remove one banner ad from the homepage of their website for a year. For a full million, they’ll remove them all from the site. In a year, they’ll try and tap their fans’ wallets again. I’m not even exaggerating – they say as much in their own post: “This is for a period of 1 year.

Firefall gets a facelift

So the problem with wanting to write about video games is that I tend to want to play those games. Once I get started, it’s very difficult to put down that keyboard and start composing some thoughts. Is that why I haven’t posted in almost a month? Yep, that’s pretty much it. The new computer has some very nice graphics and playing on a 42″ HDTV has some definite appeal. Most of my time is spent with Star Wars: The Old Republic, Arkham City, and recently the beta for the new World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria. Today, however, I feel the need to explain how blown away I was with the newest patch for Firefall.