Nobody is asking you to shut up. I just didn't understand the logic behind your post. It makes sense they had the write up ready.. I think they thought this KS was going to sore into the stretch goals right away. I know everyone wants to over analyze all of this, but when you realize they grossly underestimated the support the KS would get, everything else makes sense. I don't think they ever intended to see any of that stuff not hitting it's goal.
You keep making excuses for them, I understand why you might want the type of game they promise but it seems you are the one defending their choices instead of them learning and improving. You can go back 500 pages or so when we were talking about stretch goals and I was making the same complaint then as were others even on their own kickstarter. That is when you plan on including these things in the game 100% which that have mentioned that intend to do, then they aren't really stretch goals. Then again who fucking knows they have a history of lying, yet you will say no it's all thought out and they intended this to be the case ect, ect.
The irony of a Marxist like Dumar, being so willing to throw money at this man, is not lost on me. Some of these former EQ addicts are just as bad as your typical religious zealots.
Me saying they underestimated the KS backers, is not making an excuse for them.. trust me lol. I'm just pointing out the obvious.. I agree that this KS has been terribly mismanaged... I've made a lot suggestions to them privately. I just don't really agree with your tone towards them. You're entitled to it, but don't act like we should all embrace it. It's fine if you don't have any confidence in them.. I'm not going to sit here and try to convince you. I don't believe they are incompetent game designers. Bad at kickstarters? yea.. But I do think they are capable of creating a fun game. You can counter argue all you like, but we wont know anytime soon. Again, tho.. you're just beating a dead horse with all this man. I give you points for dedication tho..
They should be dropping details on the base game, not stuff that may be in if they hit stretch goals. Unless the thinking is the game can't be made without the stretch goals, to which then they really aren't stretch goals then.
What details do you want to hear about? That they haven't talked about.. Serious question, I know they need to drop the Shaman class but I think most of that stuff is out.
Yes! I can't even get the right kind of manufactured experience, how depressing.
Of course they expected to soar into the stretch goals right away. That's why they launched with up to $6M worth of them. They made this bullshit corporate-style PR rollout campaign, and instead of adapting to the utter lack of enthusiasm for their project, they have continued to stick to the course and doll out a bunch of meaningless lore text as if anyone but their small number of true believers care. The stretch goals have been a complete embarrassment to this project after the funding rate fell off a cliff within the first couple of days. They should have removed it from the Kickstarter page completely.
honestly, does it even matter at this point? currently i wouldnt be suprises if this campaign defies conventional kickstarter convemtions by not having a descernable spike of donations in the end, and concludes in a whimper of yet another sub 10k day.
How bout more details on the classes they already revealed? How does their 'lore' explain a dwarf shaman, since that was thought up on the fly? How is combat going to be handled? How is mana regen going to be handled? When they say you can level outside of quests, what does that mean? Alternate advancement? How about concept art on what some of these classes are supposed to look like? How about more details on how they plan to handle end game? How do they intend the initial 800k to be spent?
Lets just go with math. There are 13 days left in the KS. Assuming they average 10k a day (which they can't even do now) from now until 3 days to go (72 hours). That puts it at 457000. They would need to get about 350000 over the course of 3 days (over 100k a day). And they are going to need to do all that with what looks like less than 4000 backers.
They've already answered a lot of that stuff man. I guess you make a good point, that all of that info should be on the KS site and not just linking a video to it. Nobody has time to watch all that stuff.
Exactly. If they've talked and said all this stuff, why isn't it somewhere where I can easily access it like the KS homepage. Hell, I'll take their 'website' as well if they want to put it there. Why does it have to be some sort of scavenger hunt to find some twitter comment or facebook comment? Why do I have to subject myself to watching an 1+ hour long video, I don't got time for that. And I'm someone that wants the game to be made, someone you would call a fan. Now take the average gamer who played EQ, who doesn't frequent message boards and their only point of contact is the KS. Wonder why they only have 2600 backers? That's why, there no information in one place anywhere.
The irony is VG's old FAQ was so in depth. I don't how or why they didn't go that route.
