Ben Judd

www.kickstarter.com/profile/1707527552

Ahem ...

Very much did back Bloodstained like us.

McDerp

Okay you showed me he did backed Bloodstainend, but you ignored the fact he said publicly he would pledge Mightyn9 on the end live stream, yet says in a Podcast he didnt.
So the man himself doesnt even donate a measly 5 $ for Mighty n9.

I guese thats why Ben Judd isnt involved in Keiji Inafume's new kickstarter at all, since he's probebly asking a big cut on the donations.
You can also see the horible translation that comes with it, and the strange reward tiers.

Whether you like Ben or not, you can't deny he has done a hell of a job for Iga, and is still involved. Let's show some respect,

This thread is darkbrotherhood 's first post on this site. The rules say

- There will be no posts meant to offend or hurt any other member, in a manner which is offensive or inflammatory.

Ben isn't a member, but the spirit of the rule still applies. I don't want to lock the thread, and we can all freely discuss Ben Judd, but unless there is some constructive criticism this thread really doesn't serve a positive purpose. Getting your feelings off of your chest about someone might help you, but it's not going to change that person.

Don't feed the trolls. For all I know our new member could be a great fellow fan who will contribute to the great conversations we all have here. All I have as an impression is this person's first thread is attacking someone's character, and asking others if they would like to join in on it. They haven't even posted in the introduction thread, and I would venture a guess they haven't read the rules.

If this had come from a member I knew a little better I would feel differently about this post, but I would still want any criticisms of someone's character to be constructive.

Sorry, I honestly can't help but see this as saying "Look at how bad Ben actually is!", which I find to be in bad taste. Of course though, that is your own opinion if so, which you are free to have. But even if he didn't back Mighty No. 9, I doubt that would be an indication of what his nature is.

As for my actual opinion on the topic, I think he did a more than excellent job with the Bloodstained Kickstarter campaign and can't wait to see what more he has to offer for it and future projects.

I'm pretty sure Ben came outright and said he was in for $250. He was at 150 before, but he wanted the Amano poster lol.

I have a lot of respect for this guy. He's STILL replying to comments on the Kickstarter, which he certainly doesn't have to do. He responded to me (and almost all of us) directly when we had questions/comments and took most of the suggestions we had for stretch goals. He was hardly even sleeping during the campaign, and I imagine MN9's situation was similar. I don't think we can even ask someone to donate for them to be a legit contributor when they're putting up so much of their own time like that. The people that were able to contribute via backer achievements are valued contributors, too, and important - even if they couldn't give money. They gave some of their time and talent. Ben Judd is giving upwards of ~1 year of his life?

I mean, sure, he will get paid, but the success of these things aren't guaranteed. Do you recall or know how many publishers turned these guys down (all of them, apparently)? There was some doubt there, and going into this a bit of nervousness, I think...but he and a lot of other people, staff of the project and not, put in the effort and made it great.

Now, I'm not mad or trying to preach here, but that's just how I feel about it. I don't think we could have asked for a better individual to handle these things and be Iga's agent.

As far as I'm aware the guys an agent and you can tell he worked very hard, just look at the bags in his eyes during some of their recent videos. In my opinion he's good at what he does and him backing some games on kickstarter doesn't factor into that for me. I guess most of us here are fans of him as well as iga lol.

I think we all agree that this thread didn't start well. Let's not dogpile on the original poster though.