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General discussion (archive)Kickstarter is trying to make me poor.(21 posts)(21 posts)
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Posted May 10, 2012
No seriously, Tim Schafer, Brian Fargo, Two Guys from Andromeda, the team from Xenonauts. I mean, I can't pay for all of these which really sucks for me. I think they are in a nostalgia-preying conspiracy against the users of GOG or nostalgic gamers to see their classic games relived.
Posted May 10, 2012
Is it exeptional or are there always so many promessing projects at the same time on kickstarter ??
Posted May 10, 2012
Over the last three months I have spent (and pledged) more gaming money on Kickstarter than I would normally spend in two years. I clearly cannot sustain this much longer, so I hope that there won't be too many irresistible projects in the near future.
Posted May 10, 2012
Kickstarter actually managed to blow my gaming budget. This hasn't happened for a long time. Now I'm even downsizing on GOGs!
Posted May 10, 2012
Kickstarter are taking 5% of some pretty big numbers over there. It's one of those stupidly simple ideas that make you wonder why it was never done before.
Posted May 10, 2012
Never done it. Waiting for the one and only - the Tex Murphy one.
It's not up yet, is it?
Might even fork out a 100 quid or so for that (provided that it features Chris Jones in FMV [my hero])
Posted May 10, 2012
Too many Kickstarters at once imo. It's like 25 people are trying to squeeze through a 1 meter doorway all at once.

This coming from someone who has not pledged to ANY Kickstarter.
Post edited May 10, 2012 by tfishell
Posted May 10, 2012
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FraterPerdurabo: Never done it. Waiting for the one and only - the Tex Murphy one.
It's not up yet, is it?
It's scheduled to launch on May 15.
Posted May 10, 2012
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tfishell: Too many Kickstarters at once imo. It's like 25 people are trying to squeeze through a 1 meter doorway all at once.

This coming from someone who has not pledged to ANY Kickstarter.
And this push by everyone to get their Kickstarter in right now is going to start to backfire. There's only so much disposable income out there, and we have to be getting pretty close to the saturation point. Sure, the big name projects will do fine, but I think the real indie stuff is going to start to struggle.
Posted May 11, 2012
See, now that I am starting my new job soon, I am afraid of what will happen once I am able to fund kickstarters. Will I go broke and crazy? Will I fund so many KS projects that it's going to be bread and water time for a month? Not sure....
Posted May 11, 2012
Well, I was done until I saw the OGRE one. I don't think another video game one could pull me in just now, but OGRE is special (and not a video game). I'll likely fund any Car Wars one that SJG sets up (as they've promised to do) but it looks like that one is off in the future somewhat.

Carbon Grey was the only one I did on a whim, the rest were either sequels to franchises that were pretty important to me (and I think the only one left in that group is Bard's Tale) and, in the case of Grim Dawn, projects I'd been following for awhile.

I have spent a ton on KS projects, but not enough to break my bank or anything.
Posted May 11, 2012
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orcishgamer: Well, I was done until I saw the OGRE one. I don't think another video game one could pull me in just now, but OGRE is special (and not a video game). I'll likely fund any Car Wars one that SJG sets up (as they've promised to do) but it looks like that one is off in the future somewhat.

Carbon Grey was the only one I did on a whim, the rest were either sequels to franchises that were pretty important to me (and I think the only one left in that group is Bard's Tale) and, in the case of Grim Dawn, projects I'd been following for awhile.

I have spent a ton on KS projects, but not enough to break my bank or anything.
I was done until I saw conquest 2. But I canceled one of the other ones I'm involved with to get the money.

Probably the hardest part of all this is that I can afford to do tons of KS pledges, I just don't have the means of paying for any more than I've already done. Converting RMB to USD isn't particularly easy to do right now.

I think I'm going to just stop logging into KS and just watch my projects via kicktraqer
Posted May 11, 2012
I've been very interested in kickstarter the last few months however I've only backed one project, Nekro. I intend to keep it that way too.

I've only really been tempted slightly by one other game, it might sway me if it puts up some gameplay footage but as of now I won't be funding it.

So while I've been caught up in the kickstarter buzz, I haven't really gotten a funding buzz which my wallet is very thankful for.
Post edited May 11, 2012 by Dizzard
Posted May 11, 2012
I funded 5 projects so far, minecraft documentary, double fine, wasteland 2, shadowrun and carmageddon.
All in all about 130 dollars.

Which is a lot, going to have to stop now.

But there is Tex Murphy on the horizon...and Obisidan's kickstarter...going to have to back those too.
Posted May 11, 2012
Yeah, I know that feeling, $110 for Tim Schafer's, $50 for Wasteland 2, $10 for Banner Saga, $15 for Shadowrun, and now $20 for Xenonauts.
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