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Author Topic: Topia Online Kickstarter is live!!!  (Read 24444 times)

hemmingjay

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Re: Topia Online Kickstarter is live!!!
« Reply #345 on: January 12, 2013, 10:38:02 pm »

Also I'm gonna save up for a arch fiend as then we can use him as a guard for the mountain homes.... Or a dragon

Is that an in-game item or a cash shop thing?
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Darvi

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Re: Topia Online Kickstarter is live!!!
« Reply #346 on: January 12, 2013, 10:41:48 pm »

It's a playable species.
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Re: Topia Online Kickstarter is live!!!
« Reply #347 on: January 12, 2013, 11:07:55 pm »

I feel obliged to try and unlock the dwarf race as soon as possible, but for some reason I have this strange wish to become a slime.
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Re: Topia Online Kickstarter is live!!!
« Reply #348 on: January 12, 2013, 11:12:17 pm »

Dorfs are immediately unlocked.

Bluhbluh brain.
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Re: Topia Online Kickstarter is live!!!
« Reply #349 on: January 12, 2013, 11:22:06 pm »

To unlock other species, you have to some specific task or something to unlock it. To unlock dwarf, you need to go underground I think.
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Re: Topia Online Kickstarter is live!!!
« Reply #350 on: January 13, 2013, 01:00:13 am »

The game itself wasn't cancelled, just the Kickstarter. The devs knew they couldn't reach the goal, barely having reached half of what they needed, so they just ended it early.

They're still going on their main site though.
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kilakan

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« Reply #351 on: January 13, 2013, 01:26:13 am »

yeah they kinda shoulda asked for less cash in the kickstarter.  They didn't do very much media couverage or gameplay videos/hype building until after the kickstarter died.
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hemmingjay

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« Reply #352 on: January 13, 2013, 09:25:11 am »

It was one of the most mismanaged KS campaigns I have seen and it is a shame. Game dev's just don't realize how hard and complicated a properly run campaign is. It's an opportunity to raise funding and to execute a marketing campaign at the same time. If it was done well, they could have had $200,000 and tons of media attention.
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kilakan

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« Reply #353 on: January 13, 2013, 02:48:58 pm »

I can't also help but think that maybe the devs should of tried to ask if anyone wanted to help work on the project or marketing for free you know?  I mean I bet you could get at least one competent artist or marketer to put a bit of time in getting the word out for just say beta access.  Welp hopefully people start finding out about the game once it's in beta and they start getting some more funding.  Though I honestly don't know why they still are not trying to build hype that much... or if they are I\ve not seen any of it past this forum and thiers.
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« Reply #354 on: January 13, 2013, 04:02:34 pm »

It's a catch 22. Anyone worth their weight in gold won't do it for free and if you pay someone to do it you need to ask for more money which makes it harder to hit.
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Re: Topia Online Kickstarter is live!!!
« Reply #355 on: January 13, 2013, 05:05:03 pm »

is the mountainhomes open for anyone who currently doesn't have beta? I hope to get beta sooner rather than later, but I feel like I'll forget about the guild in that time. As for the game itself, it's a shame about kickstarter, but what can you do? It looks cool enough to warrant a deeper read into, but there's zero publicity of it.
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« Reply #356 on: January 13, 2013, 09:47:04 pm »

Well, it's Sunday evening. Will anything be released tonight as promised or should I spare my F5 key?
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« Reply #357 on: January 13, 2013, 09:54:01 pm »

coolio, the Mountainhomes are pretty much open to anyone who wants to join, whether in beta or after the full game is released.

Poltifar,  I think I can hear your F5 key begging you to stop from here! (Oh wait, that's mine.)  Josh mentioned on IRC that the guild creation will be up about 4-5 hours from now. Many other features are meant to be released this week, but he said pretty much everything has been pushed back a bit since moving away from Kickstarter took more time than predicted.
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« Reply #358 on: January 13, 2013, 10:05:41 pm »

Damn, I should have guessed that a programmer would call 3 AM "evening" :P
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Re: Topia Online Kickstarter is live!!!
« Reply #359 on: January 14, 2013, 07:04:10 am »

with the new guild mechanisms out now can we join the guild now Fighter.

Less of a rant = would have been nice if josh had PM me a better message rather then beta keys will be out soon, little bit annoying another guy asked a similar question to me and get a better reply for date then I did *sighs*
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