Folks who missed the end here... I *was* up for the final minutes, and it wasn't like a photo finish where it sat needing $28 for any reasonable length of time. I had doubled my (modest) pledge, with about 15 minutes to go, and still about $2K remaining. A few pledges trickled in, and brought it to about $1.8K remaining, and then *poof* it jumped to a touch over $49K. So, I tripled my (still modest) pledge, and it stayed needing another $1K until it came down to seconds. I had to stop watching around 70 seconds, it just seemed so unfair. My wife continued watching, as I went off to bed, and I heard a loud gasp... (her hands were up on her face as I walked back in). The final bump that put it up to $49972 appeared to come from one backer's pledge raise in the final seconds, when nobody could do anything at all (like single digits of seconds). That person raised by over $800 at once, but chose (WHY?!) not to go in another $28. My perspective is that it was on purpose, they did not have the funds available, and they wanted to make a point. Otherwise that pledge (and a corresponding comment!) could have come with a minute to go, and a chance for me (or others watching) to kick in the final dollars. I may not have had the passion and drive to pledge a hundred bucks for a non-Linux game on my own, but I would have done for my friends among the comments here (RSF, MontyHawke, JuanitaD) and more. Then, in the future, I could have browbeat Megan on the DreamQuest team into clicking the "export to Linux" button in Unity3D for me, anyway ;-)
