Allan Schumacher wrote...
Cultist wrote...
$1,117,465 hell yeah!
BioWare called us a vocal minority, those who hated arcadeness, jRPG and AWESOME BUTTON RPG. Well, looks like vocal minority managed to gather a million $ to support a game they wanted.
To add salt to the injury - that money could be with BioWare, should they not turn to Call of Duty crowd and turn Origins into abominable Dragon Age 2.
Now, looks like BioWare will have some competition in the future.
Errr, just to keep things in perspective, look at the total number backers.
And I say this as a contributor that loves Obsidian as a developer.
Allan, first let me say that I appreciate your sincere engagement with your company's consumers on this forum, but with all due respect, that is PRECISELY the attitude that has brought Kickstarter into being and forced "lesser" developers and studios into private capital raising venues to address, what a great many apparently feel is, an underserved market. There are fairly strong indicators all around us that many gaming consumers (who at least perceive themselves as disenfranchised) want products that the market is just not providing; and that the market, acting as markets do, perhaps has begun to find remedies for these underserved consumers in opportunities like Kickstarter that might well lead to alternate delivery methods for niche (truly an unknown at this point) demand products to the marketplace.
Because lets face it from their perspective its becoming more and more obvious, to compound the feelings of being underserved consumers, these type of products are dead on arrival when pitched to big publishers who are desperately looking for wider markets and 'the next big thing,' which has resulted in (certainly in the eyes of the underserved as) severely diluted end products with less value, and established and accepted business models of less is more (with a few exceptions, granted).
If anything these numbers represent x% of potential consumers that desire this sort of product. Do we really know what those numbers mean? Do we know the end number as of 30 days from now? Do we know what percentage these numbers represent of the potential market for this (or this type of) game? Merely stating this in the manner that you have, only invites one of these consumers to ask you what you know of market projections and capital finance. Do you really know something of these projections, or are you just a bit miffed that your company was called out and, in turn lashed out rather unfairly, even as "a supporter?"
I really hate to preach, but this just rubbed me the wrong way...and yes I know you probably meant no real offense by it, as your engagement from my perspective is normally honest, sincere and fair minded. Perhaps the fangs just came out when someone called your company out?
I hate to say it, but this is the attitude we have come to expect from Bioware; an attitude that is giving rise to the likes of Kickstarter.
Respectfully
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