Wasteland Kickstarter Update #5

[Brother None]

The 5th update for the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter is about the Kicking It Forward site being up, and affirms for those worried about it that Fargo's involvement ends more or less at putting the site up, and that it's an honor system idea.<blockquote>Once a project in this program has become profitable, the developer is going to spend this 5% profit, which is their own money, on whatever Kickstarter projects they want to support. They can determine unilaterally who they want to give it to and when. Neither myself nor a committee is going to tell successful developers what projects to invest in. Ultimately, this is an honor system at the end of the day. No one is going to audit their books to make sure they complied. In many ways Kickstarter is an honor system too, so this is no different. Of course some unscrupulous developer may not follow through with their promise but I believe the development community sticks together.</blockquote>

 

[Mossed Neuronn]

Wow! Fargo is going to make a strike on publishers, I guess. Kick ass.

The new era of game developing has began?

I think two types of funding will live in parallel, but I hope that crowd-founding system will be better developed than now.

 

[rcorporon]

Wow! Fargo is going to make a strike on publishers, I guess. Kick ass.

The new era of game developing has began?

I think two types of funding will live in parallel, but I hope that crowd-founding system will be better developed than now.

As discussed elsewhere, I don't think that Kickstarter will really put a dent in the current developer/publisher model. Sure, it'll lead to games such as Double Fine Adventure and Wasteland 2 (games that probably wouldn't be made otherwise) but huge AAA Modern Warfare style games aren't going anywhere.

There's quite a difference between making $2 million on Kickstarter and getting $50 million to make Modern Warfare 5.

 

[Mossed Neuronn]

rcorporon, but it's good that now those, who need just $1-2 millions to made a great game can get it from people who want it.

And nobody says that developers of AAA-projects will use crowd-founding for their games.

 

[Sobboth]

Kickstarter site and Kicking it forward are fantastic for projects too big for being indie but too small/speciliased to appeal the mass market.
Thinking about it, it's quite strange there are not small/medium size publishers for such kind of games like you have for indie music. I guess it's because the cost are much higher in the game video industry though.
Congratz for the 1.5 millions everybody, i'm glad to see i was way too pessimistic with my initial guess of 1,1 million total pledge