KickStarter Shroud of the Avatar - Lord British's Not-Ultima Online 2

[Volrath]

The Hilarious thing is this is going to be a great game.

 

[octavius]

What a shameless, greedy fuck Garriot has become.

 

[Stabwound]

At some point during this campaign I had, somewhere deep in side, the tiniest shred of hope that this might be a decent Ultima. I am 100% positive it won't be now. Richard Garriott has dollar signs in his eyes only; it's his main drive and only purpose for the game. I mean, just look at this shit.

I watched a documentary about his house the other day. The guy is eccentric as hell. If you didn't know who Garriott was you'd think you were watching a special edition of Hoarders featuring ancient human and animal remains, creepy as fuck automatons, shrunken heads, etc. It's fascinating to look into the world of an eccentric man with a huge amount of wealth.

But yeah this game is going to be an RPG lite. I expect something like Fable or Amalur level "RPG" here.

 

[Blaine]

The Hilarious thing is this is going to be a great game.

It certainly could be, mechanics-wise. Just hope that you don't ever want a city house, exclusive titles, exclusive emotes, a plaque in your honor, exclusive pets, exclusive items, exclusive NPC servants, or any of the other limited-availability bribes he's using to grab cash for this game.

 

[J_C]

And meanwhile I had to pull my pledge on Torment, because I'm all out of money (literally). Fuck those rich brats.

Don't worry, bro. If you kept that 1 dollar you said you did you'll probably have access to the backer store and you'll be able to upgrade back.

Yes, I hope so.

 

[DragoFireheart]

sup bro wut did i mis?

What's that?

The Ultima Codex ‏@UltimaCodex18m
Ultima Forever: iPad Mini Supported; What Other iOS Devices Can Run It? http://wp.me/p2g5j8-1IV

Shit facebook game confirmed.

 

[Stabwound]

The iPad shit was no surprise. From day 1 Garriott talked about how he does 90% of his gaming on tablets, on planes and whatnot. Plus tablet gaming is a whole other market for your game.

And yeah, the backer reward shit reeks of jewing every last drop of money out of people. How many of the KS updates were about adding new things to pledge levels and adding new pledge levels themselves? I swear there were more updates about pledge rewards than info about the game itself.

 

[Zep Zepo]

I wouldn't be surprised to see some of those $10,000 pledges disappear in the final hours. Garriott shill bids I suspect.

Zep--

 

[taxalot]

Live from my Facebook feed.

Richard Garriott de Cayeux via Shroud of the Avatar
Thanks to YOUR support, I get to square off against the razor sharp wit of Spoony! It's gonna be EPIC! Bring it Spoony!

 

[Infinitron]

Live from my Facebook feed.

Richard Garriott de Cayeux via Shroud of the Avatar
Thanks to YOUR support, I get to square off against the razor sharp wit of Spoony! It's gonna be EPIC! Bring it Spoony!

 

[taxalot]

I am actually more excited about this than the game ; I will be probably equally disappointed though.

 

[Diablo169]

I love how a stretchgoal for a computer game kickstarter is getting the dev to do a fucking parody interview.

 

[taxalot]

Those two LARPers aren't going to "square it off", they will share their love of larping and living in basements. Then Garriott will say out of anger "At least, I get to go to space and marry a hot chick." and Spoony will stop the interview, crying.

 

[uaciaut]

What a shameless, greedy fuck Garriot has become.

I'm not even sure this is about greed, the guy seems completely out of it/disconnected with anything.

 

[Diablo169]

Why would Spoony even agree to do this? he knows what a giant cockjuggling thundercunt Garriott has become. Why help him...

 

[Blackthorne]

When this gets funded, I'm going to play the NES version of "Quest of the Avatar" to make sure I still feel pain.


Bt

 

[taxalot]

You need to play the NES U5 and SNES U7.

 

[Zep Zepo]

I wouldn't be surprised to see some of those $10,000 pledges disappear in the final hours. Garriott shill bids I suspect.

Zep--

Looks like 12 $10,000 bids have disappeared so far...

Zep--

 

[Infinitron]

I wouldn't be surprised to see some of those $10,000 pledges disappear in the final hours. Garriott shill bids I suspect.

Zep--

Looks like 12 $10,000 bids have disappeared so far...

Zep--

Got any evidence for that?

 

[Zep Zepo]

They were Full before. All 20 were backed I'm pretty sure. Because he added the 2nd $10,000 one after they filled up.

Also 3 or 4 of the $3500 have dropped out also.

Zep--

 

[Arkeus]

Must not hope that they are migrating to Original Sin....

 

[Breydel]

Amazingly, D:OS is ahead of SotA on Kicktraq, even though the latter Kickstarter is in its final day.

 

[mindx2]

I was thinking about something during the successful T:ToN countdown -- This game MMO of Garriott's could be/ is considered one of the BIG Kickstarters that is going to be/ is successfully funded based on just the media attention it has received, correct? So, if when this thing fails as a game or MMO will it have an affect on cRPG Kickstarters in the future? Many people will surely justify throwing their money at this regardless but there will also be a significant amount of pledgers who will be deeply disappointed. This will attract negative media coverage as a "failed" KS, not in funding but in implementation. Thoughts?

 

[Infinitron]

I was thinking about something during the successful T:ToN countdown -- This game MMO of Garriott's could be/ is considered one of the BIG Kickstarters that is going to be/ is successfully funded based on just the media attention it has received, correct? So, if when this thing fails as a game or MMO will it have an affect on cRPG Kickstarters in the future? Many people will surely justify throwing their money at this regardless but there will also be a significant amount of pledgers who will be deeply disappointed. This will attract negative media coverage as a "failed" KS, not in funding but in implementation. Thoughts?

I don't think "failed Kickstarter projects" will have as big an effect as some people assume as long as others are successful, so I'm not worried by this.

 

[Zep Zepo]

Kickstarter doesn't follow it's own ToS when it's thrown in their face of how some KS projects just outright abused it. Tom Hall funding his failing (and failed) project at the last hour with several mega bids (which he admits to in the comments) and that Susan Wilson send my kid to RPG camp crap (No Fund my life projects).

They are losing credibility with me by ignoring obvious abuse.

Zep--