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Crowd Funding, i.e. My Woes With it
Hey all, and how is one on a lovely Sunday morning? I'm just making a little post, or rant, whatevers your poison, about "crowd funding". As a lot of you know, I currently co-lead an unpaid indie team on a project called "OverDose". Its hard work... So hard in fact that at times, it may as well be a real job. 4am is… -
Re: Crowd Funding, i.e. My Woes With it
Crowd funding isn't pre-ordering - which was the primary sourcing for MineCraft iirc - so the two funding models are not really comparable. Crowd Funding has to be seen as an 'investment' in the same way companies offers shares up for purchase (even if this is not the case) because that's how the regulatory bodies see it.… -
Re: Crowd Funding, i.e. My Woes With it
The main question to answer is : what do you need the money for ? On Kickstarter most (all) projects use the money to cover production costs of something that the creator can already show a prototype of. In the case of an Ipod stand or stylus, there is always a video of the device "in action". For the Adam Beane sculpt… -
Re: Crowd Funding, i.e. My Woes With it
You're getting Jack's honest initial reaction here, which is incredibly useful information, as most would be donators are going to be sold or lost with their initial reaction. You really need to stop being so defensive, its really off putting. Atleast the guy who crashed his car is probably likeable. Making fun of what/how… -
Re: Crowd Funding, i.e. My Woes With it
Yeah, I'll try and adapt that very point over on the site... Stands to reason people would think the same. And Brink... Yeeeeaaaahhh... I dunno, Brink was stunning, but it just wasn't fun? And it felt clunky as all hell. Even though you had a lot of movement, it just never erally felt like you could pull off amazing feats… -
Re: Crowd Funding, i.e. My Woes With it
+1 on what everyone said about pricing. And on sticking out, people don't care much at all for triple-a quality visuals, they want something that is different and new, something they just couldn't get anywhere else, and that becomes the force and pr machine. This overdose project does look good and will probably be fun to… -
Re: Crowd Funding, i.e. My Woes With it
You get a copy of the game, everything ekse below that, and fund the game. Thats why we said there that OF COURSE the game won't be that much, but you are helping to fund the game development, and by giving such a large ammount why shouldnt youi get a copy of the game on release? Would be a bit cheeky to say to people… -
Re: Crowd Funding, i.e. My Woes With it
I'm not sure if everybody really gets what's going with the page as such. It actually IS a donation page, that's the whole point of the page in general. You help fund projects to completion, NOT purchase them. The pricing may be odd to you but that's because you are thinking of it in terms of buying a title, not on funding… -
Re: Crowd Funding, i.e. My Woes With it
I think you're the one that doesn't understand, crowdsourcing is intended to be a business funding model, not a charity. It's supposed to help you minimize risk and reach your consumer base directly, not supply you with free cash. You really you need to step away from the premise of "donating for the honor of helping… -
Re: Crowd Funding, i.e. My Woes With it
I think it's really admirable to put so much effort into a project for zero compensation, and I can totally see why you are looking for funding, but here's my thoughts. The impression I get from Kickstarter projects is that they need to have an 'oh snap' quality of some kind. Now, that doesn't mean they're necessarily…
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