Obsidian raised a million dollars in a day on Kickstarter

Started by MadImmortalMan, September 18, 2012, 01:08:45 PM

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Zanza

#30
October 16, 2012, 01:05:34 PM
It's at more than 3.6 million now. At this speed, they'll reach 3.8 million or so before this is over.

Razgovory

#31
October 16, 2012, 02:08:48 PM
That's pretty impressive.  It boggles my mind that this even works.
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Habbaku

#32
October 16, 2012, 02:51:48 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 16, 2012, 02:08:48 PM
That's pretty impressive.  It boggles my mind that this even works.

Why?  It's basically publishing via social media.  It relies on people to spread the word and essentially cashes in on a lot of nostalgia.  That Obsidian has so many people working for it that have produced quality titles in the past is just another means of assuaging people's fears of being ripped off, which guarantees a certain amount of sales.
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Habbaku

#33
October 16, 2012, 02:53:12 PM
I wonder if they can make up the ~350,000 they need to hit that last stretch goal in the remaining 5 hours.   :hmm:
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Cecil

#34
October 16, 2012, 02:54:25 PM
Probably not but they do have 150kish in Paypal that doesnt show up so it´ll be close.

Razgovory

#35
October 16, 2012, 03:03:59 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on October 16, 2012, 02:51:48 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 16, 2012, 02:08:48 PM
That's pretty impressive.  It boggles my mind that this even works.

Why?  It's basically publishing via social media.  It relies on people to spread the word and essentially cashes in on a lot of nostalgia.  That Obsidian has so many people working for it that have produced quality titles in the past is just another means of assuaging people's fears of being ripped off, which guarantees a certain amount of sales.

I don't know, perhaps because the idea that you can just get 3.5 million dollars by just asking for it on the internet seems weird to me. 
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Legbiter

#36
October 16, 2012, 03:41:34 PM
They're at 3,7 million, impressive. Hopefully that'll keep them in Mountain Dew and porn while they code the game.

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Razgovory

#37
October 16, 2012, 07:01:40 PM
Less then an hour and nearly 4 million dollars. :lol:
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Habbaku

#38
October 16, 2012, 07:18:50 PM
:yeah:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Razgovory

#39
October 16, 2012, 08:12:14 PM
I'll be damned, 3,986,929 bucks.  That is one hell of a thing.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Habbaku

#40
October 16, 2012, 08:28:38 PM
They got a sizable chunk more from PayPal as well.  That will push them over their 4 million goal.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Syt

#41
October 17, 2012, 12:11:40 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on October 16, 2012, 02:51:48 PM
Why?  It's basically publishing via social media.  It relies on people to spread the word and essentially cashes in on a lot of nostalgia.

WHich is kinda funny - RPS had a good article recently, that one of the ideas behind Kickstarter was to offer people with new designs, ideas or concepts that seemed too "risky" for normal publishers a way to fund their projects. However, in computer games the "market" seems driven by a lot of nostalgia with people funding games "like they used to be" - think the classic adventure game hat Double Fine got funded, this project and a number of others.
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Habbaku

#42
October 17, 2012, 12:34:26 AM
That was certainly the idea and I'm not sure that the KSing of Project Eternity, Wasteland 2, Shadowrun et al is necessarily a contradiction to that.  A lot of those IPs are, quite simply, a bit on the aging side of things and I'm not entirely surprised that a publishing company would be wary to go for such a "sure thing."  With KS, though, they remove all the risk of gauging interest.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

DontSayBanana

#43
October 18, 2012, 04:45:55 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on October 17, 2012, 12:34:26 AM
With KS, though, they remove all the risk of gauging interest.

Sure.  The only real trick with KS'ing games is to make sure that you bring some fence-sitters in with free copies for donations, but don't oversell them.  Otherwise, you've got to hope that the millions you raise is enough to support an effectively freeware game made to professional standards.
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Valmy

#44
March 19, 2014, 06:13:46 PM
Oh dear Paradox is getting involved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fignwDZy-SI

Hey look a Kickstarter game got a publisher.  THEY SOLD OUT MAN.
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