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Author Topic: When Kickstarter goes wrong?  (Read 679529 times)

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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #15 on: March 16, 2012, 10:25:33 am »
Huh. Well, being independently wealthy there's an actual chance he can fund this thing himself all the way to completion. It won't be a guarantee of a playable game at all.....but there's a good chance this won't turn out as vaporware. I mean, the dude has $33 million to his name.
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« Reply #16 on: March 16, 2012, 10:28:53 am »
Uhhh, I just mentioned that nenjin.

Also, Kickstarter does screen who gets to start a kickstarter. So he might be an ideas guy, but he is putting money where his mouth is. I don't think he expects to get funded anyway.
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #17 on: March 16, 2012, 10:29:53 am »
Yeah, sorry, having a few conversations on this and I'm getting lost as to where I got the info :P
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #18 on: March 16, 2012, 10:30:59 am »
Quote from: Rift on March 16, 2012, 10:01:23 am
Also: when your asking for over a million dollars, why can't you spell-check your kickstarter page... It's full of spelling/grammar errors. [I'm not great at spelling/grammar either, but i would at least spell-check myself asking for a million dollars or more]
This, so much of this. Plus I think he faked the one good-looking screenshot.

Quote from: Virtz on March 16, 2012, 10:15:05 am
At least he set out with an unrealistic financial goal (like beyond the projects being done by big names). It'd be worse for Kickstarter in general if someone actually gathered the money and then miserably failed to deliver.
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« Reply #19 on: March 16, 2012, 10:35:01 am »
Oh Christ in a handbasket....maybe it's not a joke. It's like what would happen if Comic-Book Guy was suddenly a millionaire (and honestly, looking at the wishlist of things in the description, it reads like what Comic-Book Guy would want in an MMORPG...mix-and-match body parts?)
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #20 on: March 16, 2012, 10:57:27 am »
I admit I only skimmed it... but where's the punchline? I kept looking for a SomethingAwful watermark, and never saw it.

Eh, I guess the punchline is someone actually dropped $10,000 on this?
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« Reply #21 on: March 16, 2012, 11:04:14 am »
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #22 on: March 16, 2012, 11:04:50 am »
That was the point at which I went "Sir, put down the crack pipe."
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #23 on: March 16, 2012, 11:11:07 am »
New rule: if anyone on this forum wins 33 million dollars, they are obliged to give Toady $10k.  In return they will get their own guild bank which no one else is allowed to have.
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #24 on: March 16, 2012, 11:16:10 am »
I think the "Venor" and "Vedor" ideas were original. I don't even know what those are!

I'm willing to bet that whoever pledged the $10,000 knew the project would fail, so they'd never have to pony up the money.


But... Seriously. There's 260 bonus slots available for backers who pledge $10,000. That's $2.6 million all by itself.

This guy is either insanely optimistic and naive, or a rather brilliant troll.

I'm willing to lean on the former, judging from the insane amount of typing someone had to do in order to fill that page out. Absolutely insane.


Quote from: mainiac on March 16, 2012, 11:11:07 am
New rule: if anyone on this forum wins 33 million dollars, they are obliged to give Toady $10k.  In return they will get their own guild bank which no one else is allowed to have.

If I ever won a lottery, I think I'd give Toady and Co. $50K, just to get the most awesome ASCII art ever. :D
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #25 on: March 16, 2012, 11:28:15 am »
Anybody else think the guy put up the 10k himself?
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #26 on: March 16, 2012, 11:28:34 am »
That actually makes perfect sense.
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #27 on: March 16, 2012, 11:31:00 am »
Quote from: Taz on March 16, 2012, 11:20:09 am
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New rule: if anyone on this forum wins 33 million dollars, they are obliged to give Toady $10k.  In return they will get their own guild bank which no one else is allowed to have.

$10,000 #2: The first migrant dwarf (in every fortress, for everyone who plays the game) will be named after you and will have maxed proficiency in everything.

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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #28 on: March 16, 2012, 11:39:37 am »
Quote from: jester on March 16, 2012, 11:28:15 am
Anybody else think the guy put up the 10k himself?

It's his game. He don't share the top dawg position.
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Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« Reply #29 on: March 16, 2012, 11:53:17 am »
I am not really bothered by this. Kickstarter is a lot less prone to people giving money off of empty promises then Indie games tend to be.

Maybe...

Still not bothered.
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