Bleh, not this shit again. Original Sin did well, but not exceptionally well. It didn't sell GTA numbers or anything and a lot of those copies were sold at a noticeable discount. Steam took a big cut (isn't it 30%?). Taxes are a thing, you know. They had private investors who had to be paid their share for investing in the project. They've used quite a lot of money to develop the Enhanced Edition of the first game. After all that, they didn't make hundreds of millions of dollars or anything or even the kind of doube digit millions that they'd be anywhere near comfortable developing a game of this scope all with their own money.
They can just keep pledges open through PayPal & a site of their own for late backers, if someone wants to pledge after experiencing the console version. But they are in the process of ramping up development for the sequel now and they need to know NOW what kind of baseline scope they are aiming for the project, instead of waiting for 3 more expensive, wage-paying-for-everyone-in-the-company months.
At least for me, I had never heard of the Divinity games when the first OS KS happened
Pledged 50, despite the terrible title
How long did it take for the first KS to reach the funding goal?
