Shouldn't we have a crowdfunding/kickstarter subforum?

[Burning Bridges]

I know, this may be a bit too early ..

But with the recent situation: first promise of a real paradigm change since ca 2000, first realistic chance of RPCodex.com turning from a site occupied with nostalgia and (mostly valid) criticism of all contemporary games to one playing and discussing actual new games (!), shouldn't it be considered to have a subforum dedicated only to kickstarters (and crowdfunded games on other platforms)?

All these games have some important things in common:
- many projects genuinely promise to turn out games that the codex will love*
- the business model is absolutely new and needs discussion
- all games are at least a year away and still need input, scrutiny, and more money(!)
- new games could hit us like a huge Tsunami wave by 2013 and we need to prepare for that

I think this may be a good idea because people really need to discuss the new model, get background information about (and from) the developers, and even more importantly, crowdfunding could change the general perception of the codex, from a bunch of negative losers to the premier site of discriminating gamers, who also back kickstarters.

I mean seriously. It may of course be better to wait and see if 2012 will really become the annus mirabilis of (sophisticated) computer gaming, or if this turns out another dissappointment ...

I am interested in your opinion.

 

[Haba]

No.

Current forums can cover this perfectly well.

 

[Jaesun]

Agree with Haba.

 

[Kz3r0]

I would prefer a LULZ & BOYCOTT subforum where to relegate all the AAA+ titles.

 

[Jaesun]

I would prefer a LULZ & BOYCOTT subforum where to relegate all the AAA+ titles.

I SO Wish.

 

[PorkaMorka]

Nah. A lot of the gaming forums on this site are kind of dead (GRPG discussion, Strategy gaming discussion). Kickstarters will just make them more lively.

 

[Havoc]

Better question should we make a next Fund-raise drive for Shadowrun or Obsidian-KS?

 

[Burning Bridges]

Actually I am beginning to see the problem myself, and why it would be a very bad idea to relegate kickstarters into just a subforum.

 

[Jaesun]

Better question should we make a next Fund-raise drive for Shadowrun or Obsidian-KS?

I'm still on the fence with Shadowrun being a HARD CORE cRPG. But we shall see.

Obsidian's project? Oh hell yes. THEY KNOW their target audience. And it's us.

 

[circ]

Smoking Obsidian will kill your baby.

 

[Micmu]

To be honest, I kinda like how W2 topics have (mercifully) drowned shitstained topics full of poseurs and RPG haters discussing their fucking shitty xbox action games.
Keep them where they are.

 

[Burning Bridges]

This is all so true. I'm the one who voted yes, but would now vote No.

I would however still like to see a place to discuss crowdfunding per se, in a sticky in GF or a subforum.

 

[Jaesun]

This is all so true. I'm the one who voted yes, but would now vote No.

I would however still like to see a place to discuss crowdfunding per se, in a sticky in GF or a subforum.

For what reason?

 

[Burning Bridges]

point one or two?

 

[Jaesun]

er the sticky one. The second.

 

[Burning Bridges]

That's because I would like to see more discussion about the model per se, the possible future, and how to approach/understand the people making the games.
We already had a lot of valid criticism of individual projects, many good questions. Right now that is dispersed over too many threads.
All games are still a year out or so. There are hardly any screenshots or anything. I want to give money but I still need some kind of sieve to locate the right projects.
And for this I need more than videos of a developer in front of his PC.

 

[Jaesun]

Yeah, the scattering of info is a tad..... chaotic. But it's usually been the fight of the strongest content here (thread wise). And that's kind of how things have always been.

I don't really have an answer.

 

[Wise Emperor]

"Kickstarter" colour tag in news forum would be nice.

 

[boot]

is it time? half of the topics on the first page of general rpg discussion are now for kickstarters.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

If my Godlike ability to design solutions to system problems truly is as Godlike as I like to think it is, a solution to all our problems will come soon.

Soon.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

If my Godlike ability to design solutions to system problems truly is as Godlike as I like to think it is, a solution to all our problems will come soon.

Soon.

Codexstarter - crowdfunding only truly games since $(date).