while I will conceed that wasteland 2 did get a good amount of funding in the last 2 weeks after a downfall we don't see wasteland 2 remotely repeating what under the dog is doing which is not only replicating the first few days in backing but a prolonged string of them exceeding the first few days backing (outside the second day) by quite a bit. (in fact wasteland 2 never remotely got close to any of the first 3 days numbers.)
and last time I checked it didn't cost any money to make a kickstarter or amazon account and it's really not hard to send money to kickstarter through various different means (amazon makes it pretty easy to give them money, I am pretty sure you can even use prepaid visa gift cards on their accounts). I am saying there is a good chance they have a third party funding them through kickstarter, not that they have idiots doing it like some other projects. Also thanks for bringing up the backers, I had noticed them before and they aren't the really interesting thing. the more interesting number to me is the comments. while we did indeed see an increase in backers, we didn't really see an increase in comments until the kojima thing
which would also support the idea that a number of people via a third party are funneling money into this kickstarter, as they wouldn't care to comment, but a decent number of people who are excited fans would take the time to comment at least once... but alas when we suddenly had 400% more backers we still had the same amount of comments as when you had 100 backers. You also have to wonder if the third party didn't test out their mass funding system back on august 21st when there was a random spike in donations and backers but again not in comments.
Again it's possible that they don't have a third party backing them and that fans who didn't care about the project randomly started giving them money, but if I was kickstarter I would look into it
Also once again, it really doesn't matter to me if it is fans or a third party (my gut just looking at the data just says 3rd party which is about the only way it seemed like it would get funded after it had such a poor launch, but given it would need to be an intelligent third party and kickstarter can't be bothered to shut down any rigging of stuff unless it's painfully obvious (and even sometimes not even then) there is little chance we will ever know for sure), at least people who have backed the project legitimately either way will get the rewards they want and are excited about, which is always a good thing.
note:I also kind of like conspiracy theories
edit: what article? I can only find one for august 11th and sept 2nd not for august 28th the true oddity here.
edit 2: also wow those articles on ANN have no one discussing them lol. 2 and 1 posts, meanwhile angry birds manga has 10 and ghost in the shell movie has 18 both from today
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anncast/2014-08-27/.78086
If a corporate third party was funding them, then why bother creating 100+ accounts? You could just as easily do that with 15 or 20, as it's not like your pledge number is being publicized.
As to the comments, I dumped $2000 into LWA2 and I only left one comment and that was a quick offhand post. Not everybody, especially if they're only dumping $50 needs to comment on something. Hell I didn't post on the UTD Kickstarter till this week despite me donating much earlier. They've also had some major updates in the past couple of days.
Here's a project that was performing roughly the same as UTD was:
Awful start but strong finish.
