[bencollier49]

No-one seems to have pointed out that this is likely to be a trademark violation:

"All rights reserved. 'Elite', the Elite logo, the Elite: Dangerous logo, 'Frontier' and the Frontier logo are registered trademarks of Frontier Developments plc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and copyright are acknowledged as the property of their respective owners."

In this case, unauthorised use of their trademark in the same trademark category (computer games), is going to damage Frontier's reputation.

Could someone get David Braben to contact Kickstarter UK?

[jamespo]

Elite Systems have been around a long time too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_Systems

[mpclark]

Yes, Elite was a triple-A player and a very well respected UK games publisher back in the 80s.

[bencollier49]

Oh, them!

Strange, there seem to be relatively few studios like that which didn't either get merged into something larger or fade away completely.

Superior Software is another example.

Mind you, if what these developers is saying is true, then they would do with improving one or two things.