Wasteland II

[Mishrak]

That's a good question. KS takes 5%, which at 2.1 is 105,000. We still have 12 days to go, but only $163,000 to hit the stated 2.1m goal. That's about 13,500/day we'd need to obtain for it to happen. It's still getting money at a much faster rate than that (although it has slowed a little). I expect it to balloon up a bit in the last few days, like Double Fine did. DF got ~500k in that time frame I think.

[VectorZero]

There's a little bit processed via paypal off the kickstarter site that doesn't get included in the total. You can track that amount on the inexile website: currently at 38k.

Can't decide what level I want to fund at... stuff is cool. International shipping is not cool.

And it's hit 2M. Bring on 2.1 and Chris Avellone.

[Mishrak]

http://www.nma-fallout.com/article.php?id=61240

Slightly related - but free Fallout best Fallout.

For those who've never played it, or would like to own a legit copy, go get it! It's worth playing, and it's actually aged fairly well. Have to jump through some hoops to get it working on Win7 but it's not that hard.

[You, sir, name?]

I think it's fair to assume it's the figure on kickstarter they're referring to. The other option doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

[Mishrak]

We've seen quite a few messages from our international fans expressing concern with the cost of shipping and physical goods relating to VAT and customs costs. For that reason, we opened up a purely digital pledge level at $55 that contains no physical items. You will get the digital copy of the game, digital soundtrack, digital novellas 1 and 2, digital concept art book and early beta access.

There you go

Also, 2.1m is a done deal adding KS and Paypal. (KS is at 2.078m at the time of this post.)

2.5, here we go!

[VectorZero]

That seems like a bad deal to me. It's valuing the novella and early beta access at $25, since you can get the rest at the $30 point. Conversely it's $5 more than the $50 pack that gets a boxed version of the game and US shipping, with only the 2nd novella added.

[Soralin]

30 hours left. Last chance to get in on the kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2 Up to over $2.6M ($2.7M if you include paypal pledges on their site)

Have some concept art:

http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/press

Spoiler:

And an update for new swag for $30+

An extra digital download of the game in any format. Many people wanted to be able to get a Mac AND a PC version, or PC and Linux, or even an extra PC version for a friend. Now you can.

Access to a collection of exclusive Ranger portraits that will double the pool of character portraits you have to choose from at the start of the game when you are rolling up your Rangers. This unique image collection will not only give you more Ranger portraits, but more Ranger icons used to display your party location on the world map.

Access to a four-episode Video Development Blog that will show you an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of Wasteland 2. Sit in on designer meetings and art-review meetings to see the process behind how the game is made. See interviews with Brian Fargo, Chris Avellone, Mike Stackpole, Alan Pavlish, and the rest of the development team as they explain to you what they are doing and why they are doing it.

A novella by Chris Avellone based on the universe of Wasteland.

[Mishrak]

19 hours to go. $2.7m on Kickstarter and also I think another $70K or so on Paypal. This could realistically hit $3 million which is very exciting. Today is the last day folks! The price of the game will go up after this, so now is the last opportunity to lock it in at $15.

[You, sir, name?]

Upped my pledge to $30.

[Vaniver]

Soralin: spoiler the concept art, please. (I really enjoy Mr. Hat and Beard, though, and the second one is really pretty.)

I upped my pledge to $250 yesterday. Couldn't say no to the medal. (I think it's unlikely it'll break 3mil, but we'll see.)

[Soralin]

Soralin: spoiler the concept art, please. (I really enjoy Mr. Hat and Beard, though, and the second one is really pretty.)

Done, seems it was a bit large, since the edge of them was getting cut off. I had them linked to a bigger image, but I suppose using a 1360x760 image as a thumbnail to a 1920x1200 image might be a bit excessive.

I upped my pledge to $250 yesterday. Couldn't say no to the medal. (I think it's unlikely it'll break 3mil, but we'll see.)

I didn't think it would break $3M before, but it's been picking up a bit, and kickstarter projects tend to have a big spike towards the end. There's actually $93,782 in paypal funds on their site as well, add that in to the current $2,765,331 on kickstarter, and it's up to $2,859,113. Less than $150k to go in 13 hours. And doublefine made like $300k in their last 9 hours or something absurd like that, so it's not impossible.

[Mishrak]

7 Hours left.

2.823m at the time of this post.

Add +93k from the Paypal, assuming it hasn't gone up since Soralin's post. That's 2.916m, leaving 84k to go. It's gonna hit 3m

[Soralin]

The paypal has gone up slightly to 97.5k, the page for it is here: http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/pledge.php

So yeah, about $70k to go over the next 7 hours now.

And according to the stats here, it's been tending to be over $10k/hour recently.
http://ruinedkingdoms.com/wasteland2/
http://ruinedkingdoms.com/wasteland2/paypal/

[VectorZero]

2.999 mil now, with 141 min to go.

And final total 2,933,147 on KS + 107,522 from paypal. Not bad.

Now off to keep an eye on The Banner Saga for the next few days.

You might find this interesting too, a post mortem of the expenditure on another kickstarter project. Honestly, doesn't seem too unreasonable, lawyers, accountants and taxes aside - and those are understandable. I suspect Fargo and Weisman and Jorgensen have enough experience on the business side of things to avoid the obvious pitfalls.

[AvatarIII]

2.999 mil now, with 141 min to go.

And final total 2,933,147 on KS + 107,522 from paypal. Not bad.

Now off to keep an eye on The Banner Saga for the next few days.

You might find this interesting too, a post mortem of the expenditure on another kickstarter project. Honestly, doesn't seem too unreasonable, lawyers, accountants and taxes aside - and those are understandable. I suspect Fargo and Weisman and Jorgensen have enough experience on the business side of things to avoid the obvious pitfalls.

looks to me like they offered too high value rewards, here is a pie chart of Doublefine's kickstarter funding

[VectorZero]

Meh, economies of scale. DF had 100x the investment and the business experience to utilise it better.

The little guys had to offer something. Plus, USPS to Australia is crazy. Seriously, I can get stuff shipped here from Europe for a few dollars (and quickly too - book depository do free shipping and arrives in ~ 1 week, LVLP sent 6 tshirts with free postage, etc. Thinkgeek apparently ship here out of Brussels) but from the states it rapidly gets to 20, 30, 40 dollars for a $100 purchase.

They're also not the first people to get caught out; when Jim Guthrie launched his album off the back of Sword and Sworcery the international shipping was way over the initial estimate - I gather it would've just about wiped out all his profit margin.

[Mishrak]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inx ... 0f0af6b904

Finally a lengthy update in relation to this game. I haven't spent a lot of times on their forums over at in-exile, but the more I see, the more promising it gets. I've got NMA on my RSS feed, so there's still some updates there. I do particularly like the music clip at the bottom of that post I linked. Same guy who made the music for Fallout 1 and 2, and if that's the kind of tone it's going to have, this game is going to be great. It looks like they're making very very good progress, despite not saying a lot right now. I'm really looking forward to the beta, and that's when I imagine we'll have a lot more updates and activity.

[edit] I also updated the title of the thread, because it's no longer just about it being a Kickstarter.

[Mishrak]

http://vimeo.com/59292662

Our first look at Wasteland 2 gameplay. I must say, it's meeting expectations so far.

[You, sir, name?]

Shut up and take my money!

Oh wait, you already did.

Never mind. Proceed.

[Mishrak]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inx ... d926f114a6

The kickstarter update with new concept art and a new audio track.