Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Pre-Release Thread [ALPHA RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Aeschylus]

Same. Since the Kickstarter thing started most of the games I've bought have been on GoG, and Adventure games (Primordia, Deponia). I think Mark of the Ninja is the only one I've bought on Steam.

 

[jewboy]

A quarter million in one hour.

 

[Scruffy]

ahhaha holy shit they're almost at 30%

 

[almondblight]

I was doodling a sci-fi RPG once, as my own little project. Small-scope retro RPG with callbacks to the Golden Age of sci fi writing, space adventures, set in an orbiting nuclear missile satellite. Never got very far though

Weren't you going to work with ITS on that? I remember VD mentioning something similar a few years back.

 

[Kem0sabe]

At this rate, they will reach and probably surpass their goal tonight. 10 million by the end of the kickstarter... maybe more? We should organize a codex betting pool for this.

 

[Jaesun]

It's trending at 7 mil. But that's just because it just started.

 

[Akarnir]

It's trending at 7 mil. But that's just because it just started.

Does anyone remember how it went with the other 2 big success?
Did they get as much funding in such a short time?

 

[evdk]

Does anyone remember how it went with the other 2 big success?
Did they get as much funding in such a short time?

http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity/
http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/

 

[Brotherman Bill]

Gotta admit, that's an impressive amount of funding

 

[almondblight]

It's trending at 7 mil. But that's just because it just started.

It'll keep going up until the cutoff for a day, since that's how Kicktraq tracks things (and it rolls over days for all projects on the same time - so some projects have an hour in their first day, some have 24 hours). So it'll peak at a massive level (really hard to say since we don't know the cutoff, but could easily be $27 million or more), then drop of as the initial rush subsides.

And we'll have people saying that Fargo blew it for "only" raising $3-4 million.

 

[Scruffy]

holy cow this will be funded in a day...

 

[Jaesun]

Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo
Updated my journal... hell yeah!!!!!!!

 

[Scruffy]

i bet that Herve Caen is eating his hat right now

 

[Kem0sabe]

There´s a chance that these types of AAA kickstarter projects will end up cannibalizing a lot of the crowd funding monetary goodwill and hurting the chances of smaller projects succeeding, there is only so much money to go around.

It will go down to a question of timing, imagine PE coming after this Torment kickstarter, i doubt they would have raised as much.

 

[Jaesun]

Games have continued to make their funding goal all the time.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Some of them have gone down to the wire tho. It would be nice if companies like Inxile could continue to fund itself for years to come using this, but that implies kickstarter remaining a healthy system to fund projects. Depends on the first big project to fail their target funding, if ever.

 

[Jaesun]

They also support and founded kicking it forward. And your retarded trolling attempts are pretty boring tbh.

 

[Scruffy]

Some of them have gone down to the wire tho. It would be nice if companies like Inxile could continue to fund itself for years to come using this, but that implies kickstarter remaining a healthy system to fund projects. Depends on the first big project to fail their target funding, if ever.

ofc KS has the potential to become terrain for "scams", but i think that the owners are quite vigilant about that. i can't see an immediate future where KS stops being "healthy" really.

 

[Kem0sabe]

They also support and founded kicking it forward. And your retarded trolling attempts are pretty boring tbh.

What are you talking about? Not trolling in the slightest.

 

[Scruffy]

strech goals: Michael T. Weiss and Sheena Easton voicing!

 

[tuluse]

There´s a chance that these types of AAA kickstarter projects will end up cannibalizing a lot of the crowd funding monetary goodwill and hurting the chances of smaller projects succeeding, there is only so much money to go around.

Except that it's been shown the big projects increase the amount of money smaller projects get (there are a number of theories, increased eyes on kickstarter, increased faith in the system, etc).

While it's true there is some finite amount of money people would be willing to spend on video games, kickstarter is no where near the point where the projects are eating into each other's slices of pies.

 

[DwarvenFood]

I guess the only kickstarter fatigue there was, were users being fatigued while waiting for something decent to back.

The 95$ boxes are all finished, I knew they would be gone within a day. Managed grabbing one. Looking forward to stretch goals etc.

Is Anthony Davis also excited ?

 

[Jaesun]

strech goals: Michael T. Weiss and Sheena Easton voicing!

 

[Scruffy]

strech goals: Michael T. Weiss and Sheena Easton voicing!

(that was a suggestion btw, they didn't announce anything of the sort)

 

[Kem0sabe]

Except that it's been shown the big projects increase the amount of money smaller projects get (there are a number of theories, increased eyes on kickstarter, increased faith in the system, etc).

While it's true there is some finite amount of money people would be willing to spend on video games, kickstarter is no where near the point where the projects are eating into each other's slices of pies.

As Brother None pointed out, i think that kickstarter is evolving into a more mature system where presentations can´t just be slapped up and posted online for a money grab. The names involved and the information made available are becoming the defining factors, more so than the nostalgia for long forgotten genres that fueled the first successful projects.