No..not at all...good lord how in the world is it parsed to that? This is what I mean somewhat. I don't mean to sound like I'm snapping at anybody, just incredibly confused here.
What I'm saying was that Biskup laid out his funding campaign, in detail, to supporters with a certain plan in mind....and that plan was successful and everybody will get tended to as is good and proper according to the baseline.
Then, WHILE everything was going on proper, even more ideas came to pass to make things even better still and reward folks with. This stuff, in turn, ALSO got funded along the lines by the community---so now all of that stuff will also happen for folks. This funding campaign greatly exceeded modest expectations. Even though none of it was explicitly stated at the start of the funding campaign, because a funding campaign is a fluid thing and nobody had thought of these nifty ideas like the Mini-quests and that weird auction event thing. Biskup has cheated nobody, and does not intend to do so by all indications going forward as this is really a straightforward thing.
As such, it will take more updates, more releases both private for backers and for the public at large, further organizing, and more time to get all this extra awesome content wrangled----but it is all still getting wrangled...as per the latest blog entries assuring such.
-If you want to really get technical about it, Biskup went above call for the funding campaign integrity by choosing to do the same funding rules as Kickstarter---as unlike Kickstarter, IndieGoGo supports what they call "Flex Funding" whereby even if you don't reach your funding target you still get whatever money was pledged. If this was some petulant cash grab to wring blood from the fans' stones---he'd have opted to use that with cynical abandon. He explicitly chose not to...and that speaks volumes considering.
-There was no monthly fee for updates, the closest was a NOTION(the true form of that page was a blog update ages ago, and like most blog updates anywhere was subject to after-the-fact reckoning by the community and otherwise, as opposed to something chiseled from hewn stone, but with the suboptimal way the page is organized and presented...) for a monthly access to nightly builds---a pretty esoteric thing. Honestly, that's just window dressing for the classic "monthly support" donation model that many projects open source and otherwise have been implementing for a long time---this method just getting you something for it beyond the satisfaction of supporting a project. Personally, I would never go for some sort of monthly thing and I said as much on the entry for it as the thing continued to be hashed out. If you look in the ADOM Resurrection funding topic on here, you can see my quote from Biksup himself, albeit from his Facebook, that he's "learned his lesson" with regard to the reception to DLC and ongoing fees and such.
Really, much of this would be even more straightforward is Biskup kept all pages on his site especially updated---but they've been slammed with this funding thing now and this whole endeavor is something of uncharted territory now as well. : /
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