9-year old wants to build RPG, death threats ensue

[Jeremy]

9-year old aspires to create RPG, gets death-threats

Young girl’s strong aspirations met with equally strong resistance

[z1oc]

IDK how this could work yea i mean follow your dream but i can understand how others feel when a kid wants to make a game when there are hundreds of RPGs out there.

How would one know that it would be the next big hit when you have to compete with the RPG mother that is WOW and the 2nd i would think it would be GW2. How would a small project to make a RPG be better than that.

[Solitude]

Jeremy there's a lot more to that story than what you have posted. I've been following the story from a developer viewpoint.

I highly recommend reading through this: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/175...lly-dead-to-me

Especially view the images that have been posted. It's all very interesting and in my view really makes a mockery of KickStarter.

[Graal]

This Destructoid article citing a thread on NeoGAF calls into question a Kickstarter campaign to send a little girl to "RPG camp." The Kickstarter campaign, "9 Year Old Building an RPG to Prove Her Brothers Wrong!" by Susan Wilson asked for $869 to send a little girl to RPG camp to make a game because her "brothers said she couldn't do it." But as the aforementioned NeoGAF thread points out, Susan Wilson is the founder and CEO of a multi-million collection agency called The Judgment Group who has been profiled on CNN Money and Inc.

There's no rules against being a millionaire and operating a Kickstarter but some have called into question adding a $10,000 stretch goal to the campaign because the Kickstarter isn't about the end result of going to "RPG Camp" - it's about raising money to send the girl there in the first place.

Also some have said that the Kickstarter violates the rules on several fronts (or is at the very least unethical): the project seems to violate the Kickstarter TOS (No "fund my life" projects), the creator of the Kickstarter is accused of sending out spam to various personalities on Twitter from [email protected] to people like the Ellen DeGeneres Show; and that the $10,000 reward tier uses the public humiliation of young children to raise money.

We're not sure if this project is what we'd call a "scam" so we have reached out to Kickstarter to find out if it violates any of the platform's Terms of Service. As of this writing, the campaign has raised $21,207, well over the $829 goal already asked for.

You'll note the photo to your left of Susan Wilson with Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the world...

Thanks to Kajex for pointing this story out.

That's pretty much the gist of the complaints. Death threats are a bit over the top, but something about this KS is just downright fishy. A mega-rich woman needs to raise $900 for her daughter to go to camp. After the goal has been reached, she adds further KS tiers? The goal of the KS was to send her daughter to camp, not to make as much money as possible, which the addition of further tiers implies.

[Lyt]

This is KS abuse...I mean I don't mind a 9 year old making her own RPG game ( she can be the creative mind behind it? ) but if her mom is stinkin rich why the hell ask for money on KS?

[Ghost29]

MyGaming I am very disappointed in you. This article is incredibly one-sided and just shoddy journalism all round. This is click bait without any substance. I would contend that this borders on being dishonest.

[Pooky]

Guys, go to the Kickstarter here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...others-w/posts

Read her explanations.

[Graal]

Why is she turning the whole thing into a gender issue now?