A good kicktarter campaign is very important for sure and Larian has make some mistakes here and there but it doesn't explain everything.
The W2 and SR demo video show more or less as much as D:OS video so we can reasonably compare our expectations about these 3 projects.
And while i find D:OS interesting, i'm still much more excited about W2 and SR (or PE and Torment but we know a lot less about this game so it's not comparable).
So i'm not very surprised that the D:OS campaign doesn't raise as much.
I must not be the only one to think like that and not everyone is as much interested as us in cRPG so they don't pledge.
The game will be funded anyway.
This is how Kickstarter works best. What Fargo did was show you his plans for his games, and you in your mind envisioned them as being perfect for you. You imagined them as having the perfect graphics, perfect gameplay, perfect story, perfect everything. On the other hand, Divnity shows you pretty much everything from the get go so now you know exactly what to expect, and some of its features are not as awesome as you would have liked.
Fargo sold you a vision.
Swen sold you a concrete product.
Fargo targeted your emotions.
Swen targeted your reason.
This is how marketing works, it tells you want you want to hear. VD could probably explain it better, seeing as how he worked in this business.
). I think loot worked best in Baldur's Gate, where 90% of stuff was hand placed, but random encounter enemies (like hobgoblins) dropped random low-level stuff, like money, gems or spell scrolls. From what I gathered, Original Sin does not have random encounters: all the enemies are hand placed, but they drop generated loot (except for some preset drops). We'll see how that works in practice.
), but I wish thet actually did something, instead of sepnding 90% of time inside their own heads.
