The frustrating thing , well one of the many , is there's no way to tally the numbers of folks who have checked out the KS in earlier form , and walked immediately away after looking at the status of it. If the had started out more like this ,at least slightly more organized , they wouldn't be in money bags land , but I bet a bit closer to 400k and not having to dig out of the hole they made for themselves at launch of the KS.
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Thing is we have harped and harped on how shitty the kickstater was, how they should pull it down, ect., ect., but you know as well as I there is no way for them to go back and see what could of been. Sure it sucks that they lost out on who knows how many backers, and even now I feel there is a lot left to be desired.
The interview was good and can only help them going forward but there is still much let to be desired with the kickstarter and the plan itself.
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Also thought he handled the VG question well... except he has never elaborated on why the game's code was just a mess. You can't blame that on Microsoft regime changes or the early launch. To this day SoE can't patch the game without a ton of game breaking bugs being introduced.
I think the video was great for the KS and I don't want to criticize it at all. But I disagree here. A man takes ownership and looks you in the eye. Brad handled the question like a wounded animal. It showed he cared, but it was a "all these bad things happened to me" answer. A man recognizes the mistakes he made and the impact on others.
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They've got to find some way to keep momentum and I'll admit I'm not up on all the possible twitter/youtube gaming celebrities in this regards. They can't take a bump from Boogie and the add-ons , them slump back for most of the week into 10 new backers and 4k a day land. The only chance is to keep the push up continually and find some other ways to keep getting it pushed more and more.
Letting someone like Boogie do interviews to me is a far , FAR better method than them doing it themselves.
Letting someone like Boogie do interviews to me is a far , FAR better method than them doing it themselves.
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Probably an elf race. Some people are creepily loyal to elf races, probably to the point of waiting for a confirmation to donate.
Reptilian race is a stretch goal.
The last playable races are going to be Troll, Elf, and some type of animal race.
The last playable races are going to be Troll, Elf, and some type of animal race.
zzeris
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Dahkoht,
I agree. That interview was the best thing they've done so far. Brad is definitely stepping it up. Hopefully he keeps these interviews going and can find a lot more backers.
Edit- I'm one of those creepy elf loyalists. Always the dark ones though.
I agree. That interview was the best thing they've done so far. Brad is definitely stepping it up. Hopefully he keeps these interviews going and can find a lot more backers.
Edit- I'm one of those creepy elf loyalists. Always the dark ones though.
This game is drawing a lot of attention for the little amount of funding its receiving. I really think it will come down to the wire on it. Many people are skeptical but man has the word got out. I wouldn't be surprised to see a big round of pledges at the end.
What I'm afraid of now is yesterday it was AMA and late night add-on tiers , today Boogie interview , and tomorrow..........Rogues will use daggers and be stealthy. Bam, right back down.
Let's hope not.
Let's hope not.
The KS needs to average more than $15K per day the rest of the way to be within range of a $240K miracle the final three days. I agree that this KS has miracle potential due to high interest, but it needs to maintain what it's done today to enable that.
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This. It's one of the reasons why KS campaigns abuse social media. Because they don't have a product that is readily deliverable and so they can't do a ton of convincing through advertising or even from their KS site. People have to go to the site already pretty pumped and the site needs to be the icing on the cake, with a fantastic format and tons of information that pushes them over the edge. That's why the few people here who know about social media campaigns and KS screaming at him to tear down the site, abandon PC gamer and other typical media outlets that games in final phase development use and make sure he had a social media blitz ready for this launch (Angry Joe, Total Biscuit--those types of douches. I hate them, but they are super effective at this.)
Social media has the advantage of being taken as 'word of mouth" by most consumers. (And there are surveys to prove this). Without a proper ad Campaign, due to lack of product info and lack of time for a campaign to be effective--that word of mouth trust factor is pretty much essential in a KS. That's why so many KS campaigns are heavily based within the KS community itself, because they know they need word of mouth.
The sad thing is though, yeah--we don't know how many thousands of people came, saw and left. And once someone doesn't buy--any marketing guy will tell you, it's VERY hard to get them to look again.
