I dunno, I think I was cool with funding Wasteland 2, Torment and Bard's Tale, because the company had just gotten Wasteland 2 out. At this point, unless W2 was a flop and I didn't hear about it, I am far less enthused about funding the title. I liked W2 a lot but it was a buggy mess at launch, and I felt I would have been better off waiting on the game to play it a year later when the GOTY edition came out. They had a publishing deal, they have shown that the games can succeed, I do not see why they need to crowdfund their next title at this point.
The FIG stuff just adds to it. It feels a lot sketchier to me when the guy asking for funding is also one of the owners of the crowdfunding platform. It, along with not being happy with Broken Age is one of the reasons I didn't fund Psychonauts 2. That and Torment is taking forever. It really seems like Obsidian is the only one of the early major Kickstarter companies that doesn't seem to be trying to milk its fans. They could just as easily go down Kickstarter, but they want more cheese. That's their perogative, and aI get the motivation, but I sure as hell don't like either the message it is sending, Essentially it looks like InXile wants to crowdfund into perpetuity.
I mean look at Harebrained Schemes, they asked for 1/4 of their original goal for their sequel, which was less ambitious to be sure, but it also came out on time, and when they Kickstarted it, it was simply to add more stuff. PIllars of Eternity wasn't bugged to hell on release, or at least not to the level that Wasteland 2 was, and I don't recall them asking for funding for their expansion packs either.
To be fair, I think Fargo has done a better job than say Shaffer, but they will very much have to convince me this time around.
