Game News Wasteland 2 Kickstarter Now Live!

[Brayko]

There's still probably a ton of potential fans out there who don't even know about Kickstarter.

 

[hiver]

The pledges are slooooowing down. I think Brian needs to show something. Maybe some concept art or the vision document or some music by Mr. Morgan.

I don't think there's a chance for a sudden influx of money, no matter what Fargo does. If people aren't interested in what they've seen so far, then I'm not really sure what could change that. And besides, I wouldn't want Fargo to start pandering to the lower denominator. I guess it'll get to around 2m, not counting the usual ending surge. If that's the amount of cash cRPG fans are willing to throw at W2, then so be it. It's still much more than I expected.

Well, he didnt show anything yet has he?
He just talked about lot of stuff. There isnt a single concept art sketch, let alone anything else.

But regardless... They got 100.000 over their highest wish, so they won even if it all closed down right now.

 

[Oesophagus]

Well, he didnt show anything yet has he?

That's a fair point, but the Dragon Age / Mass Effect audience won't care much for TB isometric. And I don't think concept art can have that much of an influence :p

Too bad it came at just the worst time for me or I could give more.

word, bro. I feel bad for not being able to pledge more than the lowest tier. I need foodz and shit

 

[hiver]

Who cares about da mental defect audience?

Anyway, we got enough money even now and there is still two weeks plus to go... so all is well in incline kingdom.

 

[LeStryfe79]

I was probably wrong with my $2.6m prediction, but I'm still fairly sure it will break $2m in the final push. I also doubt Fargo will eat his words again. He seems to be a pretty quick learner. Speaking of which, does anyone remember how much Double Fine got on its last day? Pretty sure it was at least 500k, but I don't know for sure.

 

[Aeschylus]

I was probably wrong with my $2.6m prediction, but I'm still fairly sure it will break $2m in the final push. I also doubt Fargo will eat his words again. He seems to be a pretty quick learner. Speaking of which, does anyone remember how much Double Fine got on its last day? Pretty sure it was at least 500k, but I don't know for sure.

According to the twitter thing that compiled their hourly rate, they made around $450k in the last 24 hours (and about 100k in the last 2).

 

[Spectacle]

Doublefine's final day probably got a significant boost from Wasteland 2 starting up at the same time. A lot of new people came to kickstarter to support WL2, and then decided to pledge to Doublefine as well to get their game for cheap.

 

[Stabwound]

Brian gave me my first job in the industry, I loved being at Interplay while he was there, and I love Wasteland. If there was a way to work both with Obsidian and work with Brian and InXile, I would do it.

This made me feel funny in my pants. Please let it happen.

http://www.ripten.com/2012/03/28/brian-fargo-and-chris-avellone-on-resurrecting-black-isle/

 

[Zed]

Brian gave me my first job in the industry, I loved being at Interplay while he was there, and I love Wasteland. If there was a way to work both with Obsidian and work with Brian and InXile, I would do it.

This made me feel funny in my pants. Please let it happen.

http://www.ripten.com/2012/03/28/brian-fargo-and-chris-avellone-on-resurrecting-black-isle/

Oh wow. It would be amazing to have a real RPG powerhouse again.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

MCA, you've got so many brofists waiting for you if this happens.

 

[Black]

Only if Tim joins them.

 

[skuphundaku]

Tim is already at Obsidian, so if Obsidian and inXile join forces, Tim would be part of it.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

T'would be a glorious partnership.

 

[DwarvenFood]

Would Herve become the CEO ? :D

 

[Ulminati]

There will be a spike at the end. I am saving my necessarily modest pledge until close to the end, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Too bad it came at just the worst time for me or I could give more.

This statement kind of puzzled me. Whether you pledge the jewgold on day 1 or in the very last hour of a kickstarter, it's still not withdrawn from your bank acct. until the kickstarter ends (and meets its goal). Why hold out until the last day?

 

[Temaperacl]

There will be a spike at the end. I am saving my necessarily modest pledge until close to the end, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Too bad it came at just the worst time for me or I could give more.

This statement kind of puzzled me. Whether you pledge the jewgold on day 1 or in the very last hour of a kickstarter, it's still not withdrawn from your bank acct. until the kickstarter ends (and meets its goal). Why hold out until the last day?

One reason would be so that you don't have to reduce your pledge if something unexpected comes up or so that you can know for sure you will have the cash available. I donated earlier for WL2, but I'm not a fan of the fact that I have to manually set something up to account for the pledged money. I know if I did many other kickstarters, I'd either set up a separate account for it to take care of that or would wait until the end so I didn't have to track all of them and their end dates - I've seen some others that look interesting, but I'm waiting until they are almost done before donating so the money isn't reserved for multiple weeks.

 

[Spectacle]

This statement kind of puzzled me. Whether you pledge the jewgold on day 1 or in the very last hour of a kickstarter, it's still not withdrawn from your bank acct. until the kickstarter ends (and meets its goal). Why hold out until the last day?

People are lazy, and will happily put off doing something until the last possible moment.

 

[Stabwound]

Don't forget Double Fine had a big live event for the countdown that drew a pretty massive crowd. I wasn't keeping track of how much money they raised during the event, but it was a lot.

Poor Fargo can't do the same thing, since his kickstarter ends in the A.M. on a weekday in the US.

 

[Havoc]

I think because of couple of factors:
- No ongoing money transactions
- All money pooled into Amazon/Kickstarter Account
- They take 10% (5% for Amazon and 5% for Kickstarter) of the WHOLE pledge amount

 

[Crooked Bee]

Big news coming today.

Yay. I hope it's a design doc or something like that.

 

[Oesophagus]

Tim is already at Obsidian, so if Obsidian and inXile join forces, Tim would be part of it.

That would be like the return of Odysseus

Big news coming today.

Yay. I hope it's a design doc or something like that.

Maybe that'll pull in some more precious for the kickstarter

 

[skuphundaku]

LATEST NEWS: If the WL2 Kickstarter hits $2.1M, InXile will bring Obsidian in for the development of WL2: http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1100

 

[Stabwound]

Problem?

 

[circ]

As far as I can remember, Tim is only temporarily at Obsidian. Unless something's changed.

 

[LeStryfe79]

WtF is this shit???

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/03/30/obisidian-to-co-develop-wasteland-2-on-one-condition/

How is this even possible? What sort of britches have I cummed with this anouncement. This shit is utterly insane!



A new Codex fund needs to started immediately!!!!