Game News Project Eternity Kickstarter Update #26: $4 Million Stretch Goal - Chris Avellone Will Play Arcanum

[godsend1989]

My bet it will be ready in 2 years, so many shit to implement like 5367544 npcs and taverns, meanwhile we will play DA3 or something.

 

[kazgar]

That livestream is pretty bad. (from the textbox update side, less so from the obsidian side)

 

[Carrion]

Eh, the final stretch goal is exactly what it should be, especially since even hitting the 3,5 million mark wasn't certain until today. I'd be more worried had they actually announced some brand new feature on the last day of the KickStarter just to get a few more dollars.

 

[Havoc]

They should sum the paypal backers with the KS ones for dungeon levels.

 

[IDtenT]

They should sum the paypal backers with the KS ones for dungeon levels.

Totally. It would be cheating otherwise.

That said, 13 levels have some fantastical potential.

 

[Tigranes]

Not sure I want it to be any bigger than it is already.

 

[Outlander]

Check out the stream if you want to look at MCA completely shitfaced.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/project-eternity-live-stream

 

[Terpsichore]

 

[BaconAndEggs]

"Let's go out and get fuckin hammered" -MCA

And MCA's buying.

 

[Coyote]

73,982
Backers
$3,986,794
pledged of $1,100,000 goal
0
seconds to go

Maybe he can just play Arcanum up to the Void, then?

Edit: Looks like the number is still going up. Now it's at $3,986,929.

 

[taxalot]

Unless he does a LP, we will have no evidence he plays Arcanum. Agreed. He should do one in this very forum so we can analyze every screenshot, every combat mathematics, and make sure he's not fooling us. This is our money !

 

[Cynic]

If that's the way the games are made at Obsidian then that explains a lot. Ehh... You see, it is evident that all those promises, all those talks and assurances were just smoke and mirrors. Random ideas without grounds for anything. A fantasy sold to the crowd - "wouldn't it be fun if....?".

This may turn out to be a good thing because some of Sawyer's ideas were fucking retarded. Now you know what they need to do




























backpedal on RTwP

 

[ironyuri]

What was their final total with paypal and forum donations, over and above KS?

 

[Shannow]

Jesus Christ. They ran out of ideas and do not care to earn more at this point. So much for the "plan". :facepalm:

Huh? They stole codex ideas once again. Last time people here were quite positive about it. Why would you suddenly expect OE to come up with their own ideas?

Anyway, I didn't expect a He-Man RPG to raise this much money but Project Eternia pulled it off

So, all you MCA fanbois, if he chickens out of playing Arcanum because "Hey, paypal is shit, so it doesn't count! And anyway, after KS and Amazon detract their cut we're significantly under 4 mio.", will you still love him? Will you love a chicken?

 

[St. Toxic]

Like, 4.15 or something. Also, CA playing Arcanum should've been the first stretch-goal.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Well they got at least $9k through PayPal from the Codex. That alone takes them to $3,995,929.

Oh Codexers, if only you'd managed another $5k!

I'm pretty sure they're over the $4M though.

 

[Shevek]

Hehe, lemme get this straight, MCA has to play Arcanum, draw a bunch of personalized Troll toons, AND write a novella. So, uh, will he have time to help make the actual game?

 

[Balor]

Well, a 'bunch' is more like 50 or something. Not a huge deal, given they are pretty minimalistic. Novella is not a novel - it would not take a huge time (Hopefully... he might as well 'pull a Martin'). And for 'playing' Arcanum - he does not have to complete it 10 times or something. One playthrough (as a mage, with teleport spells and harm-spam) and reading a couple of let's plays would be enough I guess, and would not take long at all.

 

[sea]

Chris avellone needs to prove that he does play Arcanum.... With a lets play!

I would pay very real money to see this happen.

 

[Brother None]

Hehe, lemme get this straight, MCA has to play Arcanum, draw a bunch of personalized Troll toons, AND write a novella. So, uh, will he have time to help make the actual game?

He'll make time.

Seriously, MCA is some kind of wizard. I don't know how he finds time to do all the stuff he does, including very patient and constant fan interaction, but somehow, he does. Only explanation? Time Wizard.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Also no girlfriend.

 

[Balor]

Chris avellone needs to prove that he does play Arcanum.... With a lets play!

I would pay very real money to see this happen.

Yea, some let's play are MORE interesting to read then actually play (KOTOR2 by Scorchy for instance: +wit, -boring combats), and one by Avellone is bound to be epic... and for 4mil, I'd say he'd better do it! Someone should have made him promise that while he was drunk :D.

 

[Balor]

Also no girlfriend.

Yea, a truly horrible timesink... it does have it's merits, of course.

 

[J_C]

Jesus Christ. They ran out of ideas and do not care to earn more at this point. So much for the "plan". :facepalm:

Total money: ~4.150.000 dollars. Any questions?

That stretch goal was the sensible thing to do. This game is too huge as it is, at least they didn't overpromise even more.

Again: 4.150.000 fucking dollars. All you naysayers can suck it.

 

[Spectacle]

Cheers to Obsidian! Now I just have to avoid dying for the next year and a half.