Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Well it's not against another poster, so I don't know, but yeah, what a completely douchey and baseless thing to say, ugh.
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Shadow of the Eternals Kickstarter Relaunched
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Giolon
Member
I kind of want to give this thing $20 just help towards being able to see what will happen if it ends up getting funded. I mean, I've blown $20 on stupider things before. The Epic Meltdown (pun semi-intended) could be the greatest thing ever. It's also possible that it comes out and is actually pretty good.
It's relatively safe to assume so.
These guys want to work in the videogame industry. They create videogames, it's what they do and what they have been doing for a lot of years. They're already having difficulties getting publishers to make deals with them; now they are resorting to what is pretty much their last opportunity, that is, having the public fund their own games. They are not going to blow the last chance that they have at survival in this industry (let alone do something retarded like running away with all the money). At the very least we can be pretty confident that they have the right intentions when it comes to the making of this videogame (just to shoot down all those inflammatory and completely unreasonable comments like them running away with the money or using it for the bail of the guy who got arrested recently).
The most you can say is that, even though they have the right intentions, their track record shows that they are not to be trusted when it comes to actually going through with said intentions. And that's fair. But the fact that this is (again) their last chance at survival in this industry means that these guys are being extremely careful with what they are doing. You can be sure that they planned this $750,000 goal down to the last penny, and that they are confident in their ability to make this game with said amount of money. If they don't, it's more likely that they will release the game with a few bugs here and there or with a couple of chapters less than what they had initially planned, rather than scrapping the whole thing and taking our money.
Is it possible that this is some sort of scam? Could they have, for example, reduced their goal for kickstarter just to get some money (*any* money), use said money to make the barebones of the game, and then try to make a deal with a publisher to allow them to finish the game? Sure. Anything is possible. But these guys are not going to shoot themselves in the foot. They know that if they try to scam their fanbase they are royally screwed. No one trusts them as it is, especially publishers; but to screw in such a way the one group of people that can give you one last shot in this industry would truly be the equivalent to putting the last nail in your coffin. They are just not going to do that.
Regarding why they would be able to make a bigger game now with less money than what they were initially asking for a single episode, they already explained that they found some sort of funding somewhere else, just not enough to make the whole game.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
It's at $75k. I don't know how good that is considering the hefty total, but it's doing much, much better than the first. I think it took them several days to reach that $75k, and they made it to like twice that before cancelling it.
starwarsfan541
Banned
Well, I hope the game gets funded, but I dont play horror games, the only reason I want to see it is too see if the wii can run the cryengine 3.
From what I've seen, most kickstarters tend to ramp up at first, dip in the middle, and then have big pushes in the end. Some just bulldoze through their funding goal immediately and then keep amassing funds until most of their stretch goals are met but those are fairly uncommon.
Most successful big projects made at least 200k on the first day.
Lee Chaolan
Member
Hope it gets made. Eternal Darkness is one of my favorite games.
Shikamaru Ninja
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I really hope this game gets made. The industry is better with Dyack making games. Even if they aren't all good. Blood Omen was fantastic. Eternal Darkness was good. I really like the direction this project is hinting at.
tiny raptor
Member
They were originally asking for 1.5 mil to fund 12 two-hour episodes, so
What?
Assuming they don't overbudget the game is paid for and all they have to do is deliver the product. The backers get it for free and any money they make selling it to other people is profit.
Messofanego
Banned
Hmmmmmm...
I'm the same way. I'm rooting for this to get made, but I've never been a Kickstarter guy, maybe some day.
Madrugador
Member
I liked Eternal Darkness a lot, I'll probably end backing this.
Additional outside funding + so far paying out of their own pockets + CryEngine 3.
You need money to pay for people's salaries, that is all. They could've made that Killzone 4 reveal demo with that money. But that would then also be all they could make because making more takes more time which means more paychecks for employees which is why they need extra funds!
You're new to this whole crowdfunding thing, aren't you?
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Deleted member 125677
Unconfirmed Member
Closer. But no cigar from me. I just don't trust Dyack with money upfront. Will buy if it turns out alright, and they don't spend all their money on making another game. Or hookers and blow
-MD-
Member
I'm probably wrong but I remember it being 1.1 million.
$1.5mil I believe.
-MD-
Member
You are correct, just googled it.
Eyemus Lutt
Member
Backed. It looks good hope it makes it as the sanity effects on the Wii U gamepad would be awesome.
Mithos
Member
You are both right, in a way.
On their own fundraiser page before they put up a Kickstarter fundraiser, they had $1.5mil goal, when they finally put up a Kickstarter page that one "only" had a $1.1mil goal.
Read my previous post on this page.
JerryThePredator
Banned
750,000 still seems a little steep. But the fact that now its all one full game is a definitely a plus.
anexanhume
Member
I'd like to know how much of a stretch goal PS4 is before backing.
Why not back now and simply cancel shortly before the kickstarter closes if it they don't reveal it. This will increase your chances of finding out greatly. You lose nothing this way.
Nope, charges go through at the close of the campaign. You can even withdraw your pledge any time before the campaign ends (iirc, this has actually caused several projects to not meet their minimums last minute!)
KungFucius
King Snowflake
I can't help but back these things. I just like the idea of helping fund projects that cannot get mass market funding from soulless publishers. At the end of the day more games are a good thing and 20 bucks is a tiny price to pay for that.
Interesting, Dyak isn't mentioned anywhere in the kickstarter anymore?
I'm kind of intrigued, but I don't really like the aesthetics of the game. If there is more stuff like the building collapsing, it might intrigue me more, that was the only interesting part of that they've showed to me, the rest is very generic.
storafötter
Member
Even if I do not trust Dyack I still want something close to Eternal Darkness so might back this midway.
Madrugador
Member
I'm about to jump in, I don't want to miss the early supporter pledge.
Madrugador actually means early bird in spanish, I have a reputation to maintain.
Madrugador actually means early bird in spanish, I have a reputation to maintain.
Messofanego
Banned
Don't remind me, that had a very slow middle to the campaign. Almost lost hope for seeing something like Neverhood again.
