BassForever
Member
Don't have the money to help kickstart this now, but it's on my watch list, will fund when it gets closer to the end.
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Wasteland 2 Kickstarter project by inXile entertainment [Ended, $3 Million Funded]
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Many of us would have donated yesterday, perhaps before you awoke. Don't forget that it went up in the US night so we pretty much had most of a waking day before you guys first joined in.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Yup. And besides, shipping outside of the US costs $15 extra. If they ever put it on Steam, it will sell a ton in Germany and Russia (they're both PC land).
Pachterballs
Banned
btw re: europe. I'm AUS based and I was quick to jump on this when I found out. Really want a sequel. I have amazing memories of wasteland in my head. And I played through it multiple times too.
BF needs to update the KS page but I'm sure he will. TS updated the DFA KS page numerous times through the campaign. I just want it funded already knowing that at least; we WILL get the sequel.
The fact that its not there yet.
BF needs to update the KS page but I'm sure he will. TS updated the DFA KS page numerous times through the campaign. I just want it funded already knowing that at least; we WILL get the sequel.
The fact that its not there yet.
AndyMoogle
Member
There is only shipping for the physical rewards, which are at $50 or more. This game will be on Steam. You can choose to get a Steam key.
EDIT: $600k!
Pachterballs
Banned
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God, I'm so incredibly tempted to up my donation to $50 just to get the Boxed Copy.... but I rarely spend $50 on any new game nowadays. Holy crap I miss old PC pack ins. An Actual manual? A cloth map? Oh man.
Decisions decisions. I wish we could see what they look like before we "pre-order", but I understand that's a limitation of using Kickstarter in the first place.
Decisions decisions. I wish we could see what they look like before we "pre-order", but I understand that's a limitation of using Kickstarter in the first place.
EternalGamer
Banned
Where does it say Steam? They will have my $15.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
In the FAQ at the bottom of the page:
Can I get my digital copy on Steam, if I want?
Absolutely. The digital copies will be made available through Steam and other DRM free digital distribution methods.
AndyMoogle
Member
Pachterballs
Banned
It will be available on Steam.
yeah, but the vast majority of PC users don't even know Kickstarter exists. Once the game goes retail (and is getting good reviews), it'll do fine.
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Deleted member 59090
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Chipped in my $15.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Amazing that, in less than twenty-four hours, they've almost reached minimum funding. Double Fine's success really has led the way for others to offer stuff that won't get made otherwise.
EternalGamer
Banned
Thanks. Backed it even though I never played the original.
They really should put the Steam download in the reward tier description. It is a selling point for alot of people.
Pachterballs
Banned
https://twitter.com/#!/garywhitta
still nowhere on this wasteland2 thing.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/as-double-fines-kickstarter-nears-an-end-wasteland-2s-begins/4031/
Dregs!
still nowhere on this wasteland2 thing.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/as-double-fines-kickstarter-nears-an-end-wasteland-2s-begins/4031/
Dregs!
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
statue of Tyler with an ever flaming sword.
Pachterballs
Banned
whoever is updating the OP/thread title. good work.
Can you activate the phyisical copy in steam???
It's been more than 24 hours, and they're only two thirds of the way there. This is great, but let's not overstate things!
It does strike me that the hardest part of a Kickstarter has to be picking the right figure for funding. It needs to be low enough that it seems like a realistic goal, but high enough that you can actually make the damn thing. I thought $900k was too much for the initial pitch, but clearly not!
Anyone know what the highest 'minimum target' that was successfully reached was? I know there's that millionaire's MMO (with a clear lack of understanding of what makes a game!) that's asking for more than this...but if that hits its target, there's something rather wrong with the world!
EternalGamer
Banned
Doesn't it say you get all previous tiers? So even it the physical copy isn't Steamworks, you still get a digital one that would be. You could even keep the box copy sealed.
Don't know, but it doesn't matter:
(Buried in the FAQ)
Actually, it says everything *but* that:
I assume they've just omitted updating the tier text after the change.
Pachterballs
Banned
@mclem. I actually think 1million is low (its 900k+100k of BF's own money) but hopefully; if BF is right and he has been pitching W2; then he has already established ideas on what to do with the franchsie+ideas+plot so a lot of the ground work is out of the way; Its a month off; but I think its safe he should start looking at getting the project started already as of now. Hopefully W2 isn't just a name but an idea with firm roots on how to deliver.
would also love to see a old school Bard's tale outside the need to "comedise" it for market. The original was amazing too. When they showed off the PS2 version; it was like "eeugh" - still haven't bought it on IOS although apparently that has been updated to include the old game
would also love to see a old school Bard's tale outside the need to "comedise" it for market. The original was amazing too. When they showed off the PS2 version; it was like "eeugh" - still haven't bought it on IOS although apparently that has been updated to include the old game
MightyHedgehog
Member
Oh, no, I don't think I did. It really is an amazing performance considering the age of the property and the specific form and vintage of the genre it seeks to remake. This thing has done phenomenally well. Maybe not even close to the DF project, but who really expected it to?
Definitely not going to dispute that statement!
Doesnt make much sense if the digital copy included cannot be activated with steamworks...
Pachterballs
Banned
yup. When I first clicked on the KS page and saw 900k. I was like "you have got to be kidding me". The fact its 2/3rd of the way there is ... pretty fucking amazing. For Wasteland. A title that most gamers alive today would probably never have even heard of.
what was the screens back then? SVGA? I can't even remember!
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Hopefully it's understood that these fanfunded projects are going to have the weight of 10,000 suns upon them in quality expectations.
At the same time, people need to realize that if you're really letting a design team loose with their ideas without the constraints of publisher marketing pressures, you've got to deal with the choices they make.
You'd better be prepared to be lost in denial or anger for a month after dumping $1000 into a project that turns out completely opposite to what you hoped.
At the same time, people need to realize that if you're really letting a design team loose with their ideas without the constraints of publisher marketing pressures, you've got to deal with the choices they make.
You'd better be prepared to be lost in denial or anger for a month after dumping $1000 into a project that turns out completely opposite to what you hoped.
Sidewinder
Member
600K already, hot damn! Where's my Colony Wars Kickstart!!?
That's the point of all this. Nobody who wants this gives a fuck about publishers/marketing vision of what a game should be or should have.
In 88? I know our family pc that I played games on had a 4 color CGA screen. I was drooling over screenshots in magazines that had EGA graphics hehe. My parents upgraded our pc when the 486 DX2 cpus came out, whenever that was, and we got a 15" VGA monitor which was a pretty huge upgrade.
Pachterballs
Banned
well, wasteland aside; they also did fallout 1+2 so with any luck; they can shape this the right way.
pretty talented bunch of people with proven track record. Inxile is the wildcard.
$610k. since I updated that it hit $600. should be 700 in a couple of hours.
One neat thing this Kickstarter has shown me is this neat little tactical RPG project. InXile is backing them. Didn't think a new thread would be read, but there should be a general Kickstarter thread (unless there is and my search missed it).
www.kickstarter.com/projects/1432779589/aura-tactics
www.kickstarter.com/projects/1432779589/aura-tactics
Pachterballs
Banned
lol
could be EGA. so VGA probably. I can't remember. Yonks. Kids these days with their smartphone screens+ipads.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
I hate to go there again, but part of me wonders how Mega Man Legends 3 would have fared if this Kickstarter trend had happened 2 years ago and been proven an effective option for producing niche titles.
Part of me is worried that soon some publisher might get savvy and will try to hold a sequel hostage to get Kickstarter money.
Part of me is worried that soon some publisher might get savvy and will try to hold a sequel hostage to get Kickstarter money.
AndyMoogle
Member
Sadly, you won't get a digital copy with the regular boxed copy. To get a boxed copy AND a digital copy, you have to pledge $100.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean that the boxed copy won't have a Steam redeem code in the box.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean that the boxed copy won't have a Steam redeem code in the box.
Messofanego
Banned
I hate to go there again, but part of me wonders how Mega Man Legends 3 would have fared if this Kickstarter trend had happened 2 years ago and been proven an effective option for producing niche titles.
Part of me is worried that soon some publisher might get savvy and will try to hold a sequel hostage to get Kickstarter money.
If that's going to be a 3D game, then it can't be made on just a million budget. That would not work for a Kickstarter, these all have been less graphically intensive games.
you know, this actually looks quite good (getting a FF Tactics/Disgaea vibe from it)
I'm supporting them with $15
From the FAQ
I am a collector, can I get a digital copy with my Large Box Copy so I don't have to open the box?
Due to popular demand, the $50 pledge for the Large Box Copy now also comes with a Digial Download copy of the game. We understand the collector mindset!
Last updated: Tuesday Mar 13, 12:54pm EDT
I hate to go there again, but part of me wonders how Mega Man Legends 3 would have fared if this Kickstarter trend had happened 2 years ago and been proven an effective option for producing niche titles.
Part of me is worried that soon some publisher might get savvy and will try to hold a sequel hostage to get Kickstarter money.
So what?
Frankly, I hear this "what if publishers profit of this?" a lot of times and I don't understand what is wrong about it.
If Capcom wants to put Legends 3 and people back them, great. Is their money, they want that to happen, that grants it. Capcom is happy, users are happy, and the only ones left crying are those who think that for some weird moral reason an established company has no right to use this to fund a considered risky project.
I'm sure many fans would prefer to pay in advance for Legends 3 to the alternative of it not happening at all. If they are enough of them to back that for Capcom, awesome, great for everyone.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
It certainly is exciting for anyone who has ever been a fan and watched a series they loved turn into committee-driven garbage or be abandoned completely.
It's great to get in on the ground floor of things like this, before we all know how it plays out and anything seems possible.
$610k. since I updated that it hit $600. should be 700 in a couple of hours.
If it continues at the same average pace it has since starting, it will reach $900,000 in a little less than 12 hours from now if my math is correct. These things have a way of slowing down over time though, so I expect them to reach their goal by maybe the end of the day tomorrow.
I thought so too. Figured why not.
AndyMoogle
Member
Nice, thanks.