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Kick(start) Tom Chick
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Shining Sunshine
Banned
Tom Chick?
~looks up Journey metacritic~
Not interested
~looks up Journey metacritic~
Not interested
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
People loved 1up, 1up disintegrated, the Rebel FM podcast formed as an unofficial continuation of 1up FM, 1up fans donated money to enable that to happen, Arthur Gies was Anthony's roommate, he was on Rebel FM, he was involved in the spending of some donated money on a PC for Tyler Barber, who also wasn't a 1up employee. Arthur eventually got a job at IGN around the same time Anthony did. Some people remain extremely bitter, apparently.
RedNumberFive
Banned
I have no doubt this will be funded. Gamers will throw away their money on just about anything.
Chip N Chance
Member
That would be outrageous.
Were you one of the purged?
Nah but I play games with a lot of people who were.
I think I've only posted like 3 or 4 times since the great purge.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Oh no! You are a horrible person for being willing to pay money for a product you want to consume. Because of you, many other Kickstarter projects will be proposed that some people aren't even interested in! Just think of how bad that will be for the industry!
choaffable
Member
I don't write in gaming journalism, but I freelance for various publications and $500 is what I would expect/charge for an article. Though, even I will admit that is within a dying model and I've recently gotten out. I wonder if this would have been an easier sell as a Kindle single.
Patapwn
Member
Heh, yea. I immediately recognized who this guy was simply because he gave journey a 4 (...OUT OF 10! :0)
Scoring games low can make you famous. Hmm... I have kickstarter idea
Patapwn
Member
If you remove the s and add another letter we have a deal!
RedNumberFive
Banned
But without Kickstarter, poorly written articles about gaming couldn't exist! Don't you understand?!?
Sure they could do that, or collect thousands of dollars in a few hours.
This will surpass 10k eaaaaaaaaasy, so why not? If NFL Gaf gave you $10,000 to cry about the Chargers would you turn is down?
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
They're offering a product at a price. People are free to pay or ignore it. What about this particular project makes it absurd? Because it doesn't fit your prototype of a product? Because it's not something you are interested in?
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
This and this. I don't understand what some of you are up in arms about, besides not thinking of this first (assuming it's funded). Except it wouldn't work for you because you're not Tom Chick and people don't want to read what you write?
And FWIW I don't have the slightest inclination to donate even a penny to this.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
They basically state outright that we are paying their salaries.
They could very well apply for jobs with blogs or other digital news outlets.
But instead they are asking Kickstarter to pay them as if it were a job that they have not made any effort to explain why they couldn't get in the first place.
XANDER CAGE
Member
For myself, I wouldn't say I'm uninterested in the project, I'm just a little baffled by the proposal. 10,000 dollars is a hefty amount of money for ten articles; and on the one hand, I understand that somebody's trade is worth more than face value, but they don't do a very good job of explaining why they need that much money. They say that the money is roughly equal to their old salaries, which is... I dunno, I doubt these guys are really hurting for job opportunities. One's a surgeon and the other is a fairly well respected writer.
Honestly, the stuff in their "if we make even more money..." section is much more interesting to me than the actual Kickstarter. That stuff is far more understandably money-requiring than "getting screenshots", which is an absurd thing to even mention in their "where does the money go?" paragraph.
Oh, good, we're already at the "you're just jealous!" insult stage.
I've actually changed my mind in the last few minutes. Since PC Gamer fired everyone good and has completely gone to shit I am without a game mag sub for the first time in like 20 years. This is just as good.
I'm in for 20 or so.
.la1n
Member
Same, I am on board for this. Had the pleasure of talking to Tom and he was a nice guy.
I'm getting paid to write right now, so I don't really give a shit. I just think this is blatantly taking advantage of his fans.
It would make far more sense if the money was for the podcast and other stuff they're promising if they make over 10k. That actually requires money.
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
Well, I'm jealous.
It just seems to me like they're poking around for a market inefficiency. If it doesn't get funded, it was absurd. If it does get funded... it's not. Pretty much by definition.
Is it ridiculous to think that there were a couple hundred CGW magazine subscribers who were in it almost exclusively for a particular feature? Who thought the magazine was roughly worth $20-$30 a year for this, and maybe not worth it without? So the value here is essentially the same for them, but everything goes directly to the writers they were subscribing for in the first place.
DiscoJer
Member
I wouldn't pay money to kickstart them, but I might pay money to kickstart a column by Scorpia.
Anyone remember her? She used to write an adventure/RPG game column for CGW, well before these two. (I don't even remember these two, to be honest, though I stopped reading it in about 2000 or so. Alan Emrich, Johnny Wilson I remember.)
Anyone remember her? She used to write an adventure/RPG game column for CGW, well before these two. (I don't even remember these two, to be honest, though I stopped reading it in about 2000 or so. Alan Emrich, Johnny Wilson I remember.)
FieryBalrog
Member
I would much rather donate to this than Republique.
In fact, I think I will. I really loved Tom vs Bruce from my years of subscribing to CGW and I mildly enjoy Chick's writing on Qt3. Consider this your payday!
In fact, I think I will. I really loved Tom vs Bruce from my years of subscribing to CGW and I mildly enjoy Chick's writing on Qt3. Consider this your payday!
There are like five good writers in the entire industry. When two of them get together on a project I'm not surprised folks are happy to pay them for their work.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
This is basically what I was trying to get at.
FieryBalrog
Member
So you missed pretty much all of Jeff Green's run as EIC? For shame.
Yeah, the reactions to this are a little surprising.
This is what Kickstarter is. You pay people to do/create things you would like to see exist.
It's not really a product when the end result is free.
I want a refund from the idle thumbs people
You wouldn't get an argument over it from me.
But for $30 more, you could get a PDF file.
Joke is on them, I'll just C&P it into a word doc and convert it to a .pdf for free!
They have a site up:
http://www.tomvsbruce.com/
Also, they're already at 30% of the goal. This will get funded by Friday.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Double Fine.
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
Double Fine using it to fund their point-and-click adventure game and raising $3 million.