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Topic: Kickstarter for Expansion?

I just recently started playing and I'm trying to gauge what's going on in the game.  What I've seen so far is a few simple quality of life patches/changes and and a dedicated community just begging for more of what this game could offer.

The steam release has been great for this game but, I think we need something more.  I know it all comes down to money so why not a kickstarter??  Wouldn't take much effort to setup.  Would generate publicity at very least and if it goes well we could see some much needed billable dev hours sunk into making this game great.

Thoughts?

2 Reply by Burial (edited by Burial 2015-07-21 17:03:16)

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Re: Kickstarter for Expansion?

Doesn't the company have to be registered in the US to use Kickstarter? That's how it used to be at least.

Anyway, this.

3 Reply by jim elliot (edited by jim elliot 2015-07-21 17:05:56)

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Re: Kickstarter for Expansion?

https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/creator+questions

Doesn't look like its US only but, Hungary is not on the list.  Perhaps it would be possible to get an office in one of the available countries?

I'm sure its just legal cya for kickstarter.

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Re: Kickstarter for Expansion?

It looks like there is an international equivalent:

https://support.indiegogo.com/hc/en-us

Might be worth looking into if meeting the kickstarter requirements is an issue.  I just know that people love to spend wayy to much money on scifi media on kickstarter.

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The problem with a kickstarter is that the devs would have to commit to hard deadlines regarding new content. The devs here dont do so well with deadlines of any kind. Im pretty sure a kickstarter will be tossed around when the income isnt paying the bills any longer. Its a shame really.

6 Reply by jim elliot (edited by jim elliot 2015-07-23 15:12:26)

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Re: Kickstarter for Expansion?

Aye Pod wrote:

The problem with a kickstarter is that the devs would have to commit to hard deadlines regarding new content. The devs here dont do so well with deadlines of any kind.

Not really.  There are tons of kickstarters that never deliver at all.


Also, if money wasn't an issue they could contract most of the work out. 

Can't hate a brother for trying?  Haven't seen too many other threads on how to raise money without P2W BS at its core.

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Re: Kickstarter for Expansion?

Googled around today and found this one: http://gambitious.com/

Looks like you can sell future profit shares in exchange for money for development.