CrimsonNoir

@Branthog said:

@Chaddicus said:

@CrimsonNoir said:

@SeriouslyNow said:

@LordCmdrStryker said:

@SeriouslyNow said:

@AlexW00d said:

To reiterate the point made in this article, something like Kickstarter was never gonna help the little guy who couldn't get a publishing deal/funding to make the game he wanted to make, and it was only ever going to help the big names who people already know and who could easily fund their own game or gain a publishing deal easily. Double Fine should donate all that extra money to all these kickstarters that actually need kickstarting.

Yeah, I agree but when I said that I was shouted down by people who complained that they didn't want their money going to other projects. It's funny though because Brian Fargo agrees with us too.

Brian Fargo wants to put back a percentage of the proceeds after the project is finished, not before.

Who cares? The money still goes to other projects which will need it and that can only be a good thing.

Uh, I care. I'm not paying Double Fine so Auditorium 2 can get made, I want them to use the money they're getting for this project on this project. If I want to support other indie devs than I would have done so.

Yeah, I want my money going where I say it goes.

Huh? How is it your money? Are you saying that after Tim Schaffer and Brian Fargo give you the video game that you paid for and then they go on to sell a lot more copies of that game and make a million dollars profit, you want to control what their company is allowed to do with that million dollars? On what planet does that seem reasonable? You may be investing emotionally in the outcome of a project, but other than the products/swag/experiences you're directly pledging to get in return, you have no financial stake in the company or the profits of any of these.

That a number of projects are jumping on board the "if we make any profit, 5% of it will go back to helping other people's projects" is really awesome. Imagine if non-indie projects did that? "Hey, we're going to give 5% of COD profits back to the indie dev world". I mean, holy shit. That'd be amazing. And that it's the little guys doing this shows what good sports they are and that they ultimately care about videogames themselves.

@Kamikaze_Tutor:

AlexW00d was referring to the Kickstarter money, not the profits made from the game after completion. He was saying the money received after they already hit their initial goal should have gone to other projects, which would have been 3 million dollars of "extra" money after their initial goal of 400k was met.

@LordCmdrStryker said:

@SeriouslyNow said:

@AlexW00d said:

To reiterate the point made in this article, something like Kickstarter was never gonna help the little guy who couldn't get a publishing deal/funding to make the game he wanted to make, and it was only ever going to help the big names who people already know and who could easily fund their own game or gain a publishing deal easily. Double Fine should donate all that extra money to all these kickstarters that actually need kickstarting.

Yeah, I agree but when I said that I was shouted down by people who complained that they didn't want their money going to other projects. It's funny though because Brian Fargo agrees with us too.

Brian Fargo wants to put back a percentage of the proceeds after the project is finished, not before.

Who cares?  The money still goes to other projects which will need it and that can only be a good thing.

Good for OMGPOP, getting paid for making something quality.

15 million for GB and CV and 10 million for the others, all a wild guess.

Ugh, I really don't need bad news for GiantBomb, I come here to escape my real life dramas.

Ice-T is joining the site and the site is going to be rebranded to reflect that with Endurance Ts and Ice Looks.

This is why we can't have nice things!

Someone was telling me I was crazy for predicting that the XCOM strategy game would be more profitable than the XCOM FPS game but, after seeing the numbers for Syndicate, I'm sticking with my prediction.

Just finished watching the live stream of Double Fine counting down the end of their Kickstarter funding and Tim let it slip and mentioned Iron Brigade PC. It could have just been a joke, but during the feed he says he's glad he didn't have his mic on when he was talking about Iron Brigade PC, but he accidentally left it on when he said that to someone else :P