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YOURFRIEND posted:Well no. I can do that silently. I came into the thread to express surprise that it's doing so well. I thought the community of people willing to finance games via kickstarter would need a while before putting money into another game. I had no interest in the double fine game as much as I like some of their stuff but I'm all over this. It's nothing to do with it being on kickstarter or a willingness to finance anything. And everything to do with wanting this game and Fargo's pedigree. From my personal perspective it's no different than a pre-order or paid beta for an indy game or something. Another thing to take into account is that the $200k or so is only from 3,700 people. In the grander scheme of things that's not that many. Even double fine's $3 million is under a hundred thousand people. Yeah that's a lot, but given the size of the international video game market we're still looking at niche. A big niche, but it's not like they're draining a very limited well dry. Compare this to the number of people who have bought minecraft or who pay to play WoW every month and we're looking at drops in an absolutely massive nerd ocean. Gravy Jones fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Mar 13, 2012 |
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HotCanadianChick posted:The original Wasteland from 1988 was a sandbox with moral dilemmas and hard choices, this 'direction' for the Wasteland series far, far predates all the modern stuff you're thinking of. Yeah I know that, I just think the language he's using to hype the game has negative associations.
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Fargo just sent out an update:Brian Fargo posted:Project Update #1: Off to a great start!
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I love all y'all. I would post my Kickstarter pledge, but I will just leave it at "it is more than anyone else" and shift my eyes around instead. It went up from $210,000 to $220,000 in the time it took me to watch the video and donate. And it has gone up to $222,000 in the time it took me to read the updates in this thread! Time to update the original post!
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It's been a long while since I played the original Wasteland, so could someone please remind me what the moral dilemmas and hard choices in it were? I just remember having to help a few communities, then murdering the Brotherhood of Steel-like group, blowing up the scorpitron, going through Project Darwin, and destroying the robot base. I don't really recall many moral grey areas, but I probably just forgot.
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We're now at 25% of the target. The Wasteland train rolls on 
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Mar 13, 2012 20:07
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I'll throw in $15 later, sounds cool.
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How long did it take Double Fine to fund theirs? 8 hours to reach $400,000?
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theblackw0lf posted:How long did it take Double Fine to fund theirs? 8 hours to reach $400,000? In any case, I was pretty optimistic about this, but I did not expect it to even come this close to keeping up with the Double Fine Kickstarter speed. Here is to hoping the momentum continues! Also thanks to whoever stickied the thread. This confirms my suspicion that the lack of a Wasteland 2 Kickstarter thread here would have been a tragedy!
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Mar 13, 2012 20:12
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Threw in $15 now, although I'm terrible at these types of games.  I am tempted to raise it to $50 though, if only for the sweet, sweet clothy goodness and box. e: I swear that the pledged amount goes up by increments of $1,000 every time I refresh the page. 
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I have donated $50 and plan on donating $100 more later this week. Does anyone know if Wasteland 1 will be included with this? That would pretty much be a requirement for all donation levels!
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I knew it. They'll double their goal.  edit: I know there were a lot of naysayers who said "only tim schaefer" could do this. Welcome to the crowdfunded world guys. the black husserl fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Mar 13, 2012 |
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I just put in $15. I'm not a huge enthusiast of turn-based games, but I really like the idea of direct funding as a means to weaken the hold of production companies on the industry. Plus, any connection to Bloodlines is enough to get my money.
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Never played wasteland but threw down $15 anyway. Hope it makes it's goal.
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Rocketeer Korolev posted:Does anyone know if Wasteland 1 will be included with this? Unfortunately not. EA still hold the rights to distributing Wasteland 1.
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Rocketeer Korolev posted:I have donated $50 and plan on donating $100 more later this week.  Rocketeer Korolev posted:Does anyone know if Wasteland 1 will be included with this? That would pretty much be a requirement for all donation levels!
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Rocketeer Korolev posted:I have donated $50 and plan on donating $100 more later this week.
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Quarex posted:
Fingers crossed! EDIT Megadyptes posted:You do realise that your card/account doesn't get charged 'till Kickstarter period is over, right? (Well and if pledge total is over their goal) So go hog wild and up the pledge to 150 now! Certainly will! I'll just make sure not to go overboard. (thanks for money management tips, high school/college/current job)
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Quarex posted:Electronic Arts still owns the rights to Wasteland, but Brian Fargo has said a few times that he is on pretty good terms with them and is optimistic that he might be able to negotiate something with them. At the very least, they would be drat stupid to not take this opportunity to put it on a digital download service since demand will be higher now than ever again (and higher than they could have possibly imagined it would ever be). I read through the thread and I don't remember anything explicitly saying so, but is Wasteland like the gold box D&D games where the story is in the manual? I'd like to play it sometime, and a GOG release with the manual and whatever included would be fantastic.
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Megadyptes posted:You do realise that your card/account doesn't get charged 'till Kickstarter period is over, right? (Well and if pledge total is over their goal) So go hog wild and up the pledge to 150 now! I remember when this thing was first announced, I was like "all right, I will totally pledge $100. ... Hmm. How many times in my life will the opportunity to fund Wasteland 2 come along? All right, maybe I should aim higher." Rocketeer Korolev posted:Fingers crossed! Edit: Armor-Piercing posted:EA is signed on with GOG already too, so as long as there's nothing unusual going on with the rights it really should be up on there with a bunch of goodies. Armor-Piercing posted:I read through the thread and I don't remember anything explicitly saying so, but is Wasteland like the gold box D&D games where the story is in the manual? I'd like to play it sometime, and a GOG release with the manual and whatever included would be fantastic.
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Brian got my 65 dollars. This and Idle Thumbs in the same month! I love kickstarter!
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Armor-Piercing posted:I read through the thread and I don't remember anything explicitly saying so, but is Wasteland like the gold box D&D games where the story is in the manual? I'd like to play it sometime, and a GOG release with the manual and whatever included would be fantastic.
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Brian Fargo and Michael Stackpole were both lead designers on Neuromancer. Another reason I'm excited
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Fargo make FreeSpace 3 happen and you can have my first born child.
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Quarex posted:Also thanks to whoever stickied the thread. This confirms my suspicion that the lack of a Wasteland 2 Kickstarter thread here would have been a tragedy! I hear Shalinor's a big Wasteland fan 
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theblackw0lf posted:How long did it take Double Fine to fund theirs? 8 hours to reach $400,000? This is where I think Double Fine was unique - the speed. The first time nature of it combined with the clever funny video helped create a real big initial spike of interest and money. I think a lot of successful Kickstarters in the future will be slower burn. I wouldn't be surprised to see some of them bypass Double Fine in total raised, too. You're just as successful if you make a 'measly' 50,000$ a day for each of the 30 days and hit 1.5 million as if you have a huge spike and front load most of that into the first day.
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100 Bucks donated, as a thank you for all the amazing games these guys made to this day. I have enjoyed every single one of them.
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I sing of ARTS... posted:Fargo make FreeSpace 3 happen and you can have my first born child. Seriously - if there were one other project I'd GLADLY contribute to, it would be a new FreeSpace game. Well ... that and a sequel to the Xbox's Rallisport Challenge 2 - C'mon DICE!
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YOURFRIEND posted:I cannot believe this kickstarter for this random obscure rear end game from a million years ago is actually getting any money. I seriously thought it would get like 10k and this thread would be full of people bemoaning how it needs to be made. What's it like to get owned?
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How much was this kickstarter at this morning? I feel like it's blown up today.
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Starks posted:How much was this kickstarter at this morning? I feel like it's blown up today. I thought it started this morning. ~6 hours to get to 240k? E: I was in a meeting and now this thread is stickied...YAY! Keep it going guys!
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ChiTownEddie posted:I thought it started this morning. ~6 hours to get to 240k? Yeah, it went live this morning. But there's been a fair amount of noise about it in the last week or two. Fargo was taking his time to get his ducks in a row and get things ready to launch and trying raise awareness of it.
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ChiTownEddie posted:I thought it started this morning. ~6 hours to get to 240k? Oh I thought so but then I saw the OP was march 11th so I thought it was earlier but I guess it was known about before it started  That's pretty crazy though
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ChiTownEddie posted:I thought it started this morning. ~6 hours to get to 240k? Yep, it started today. So as of almost 4pm EST they're quickly approaching a quarter of a million dollars pledged.
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Starks posted:Oh I thought so but then I saw the OP was march 8th so I thought it was earlier but I guess it was known about before it started Yeah, Fargo had talked it up a bunch, asked for feedback on the tiers of donations, and also said he submitted it on the 9th or 10th.
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Starks posted:That's pretty crazy though Wait until Chris Avellone and Obsidian throw their hat in the ring. 
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Quarex posted:Also thanks to whoever stickied the thread. This confirms my suspicion that the lack of a Wasteland 2 Kickstarter thread here would have been a tragedy! Actually, I just came in here to post a thread (saw the kickstarter on twitter), only to find the sticky. Kicked in $50.
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Fintilgin posted:Wait until Chris Avellone and Obsidian throw their hat in the ring. I was just talking about this with a buddy. I kind of hope they wait 6 months or so...I think quite a few of the thousands donating would like a break/feedback showing the initial projects they funded are progressing, etc. But yes. Cannot wait.
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Fintilgin posted:Wait until Chris Avellone and Obsidian throw their hat in the ring. I'm sure ropekid/JE Sawyer will see this. Perhaps we should make a cross-post in the Fallout: New Vegas thread(s)? He reads those, as do many, many other people who might want to check this out. Though, admittedly, those people are probably already here.
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