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Melee: Battlegrounds => General => Topic started by: Algarn on December 20, 2014, 12:52:48 pm

Title: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: Algarn on December 20, 2014, 12:52:48 pm
Is there any possibility to make another kickstarter 1 week long after this one ? People know about the game now, it went viral at imgur, so, even more people are going to see it.

If it's not, I close this thread asap.

Basically, as my english vocabulary isn't great, I must say I wanted to ask if it was possible to have some kind of occasion to give money (didn't know the term kickstarter was affiliated entirely with this website, sorry...).
Title: Re: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: Mr_Oujamaflip on December 20, 2014, 01:43:59 pm
Given the bad press Kickstarter has they'd be better off rolling with a donations system on the Melee website.
Title: Re: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: Algarn on December 20, 2014, 01:45:44 pm
Given the bad press Kickstarter has they'd be better off rolling with a donations system on the Melee website.

By "Kickstarter", I meant anything to raise money. If you need funds, they can try to raise them independently.
Title: Re: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: Leshma on December 20, 2014, 02:07:23 pm
chadz said they won't do anything for some time. Also crowdfunding could get a serious hit in Europe next year, because of some changes in tax laws.
Title: Re: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: pogosan on December 20, 2014, 02:21:55 pm
Title: Re: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: The_Bloody_Nine on December 20, 2014, 02:24:02 pm
I wouldn't rush things (again). Also if they present some nice new things like a playable demo in a couple of weeks or months people will see how they make progress, not just promises.
Title: Re: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: Molly on December 20, 2014, 04:35:32 pm
I wouldn't rush things (again). Also if they present some nice new things like a playable demo in a couple of weeks or months people will see how they make progress, not just promises.
This.

Maybe some kind of free and playable tech demo could serve the purpose of spreading the word. SpinTires did this.
Title: Re: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: djavo on December 20, 2014, 07:43:56 pm
Let them think about it for a while, 2015 will be a good year...
Title: Re: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: MURDERTRON on December 20, 2014, 09:32:07 pm
Sort out a solution for partial and bad blocks, then release a tech demo that only lets you duel with longswords.
Title: Re: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: Xant on December 20, 2014, 10:00:41 pm
What are the disadvantages of having a similar system as Star Citizen, where people can pledge at any given time?
Title: Re: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: Algarn on December 20, 2014, 10:02:31 pm
What are the disadvantages of having a similar system as Star Citizen, where people can pledge at any given time?

This should actually be the way to go.
Title: Re: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: Leshma on December 20, 2014, 10:12:59 pm
What are the disadvantages of having a similar system as Star Citizen, where people can pledge at any given time?

For reasonable people there is none.
Title: Re: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: MeevarTheMighty on December 20, 2014, 11:38:15 pm
This.

Maybe some kind of free and playable tech demo could serve the purpose of spreading the word. SpinTires did this.

The game would have to be significantly further developed for that to be a good idea imo. At the moment it's a visionary project, where nothing really works as intended yet.

It's much better to let people see your intentions than to let them see your wip.

I'm definately in the "make a webstore, pretend it's Kickstarter" camp. I think we've seen with Kickstarter that it doesn't generate a lot of publicity for itself anymore. Any publicity and relationships that could be taken from it have been already, so there's probably no point in going back there.

The team should probably keep on working on (after Christmas) that big building teaser and get it ready for the store launch.
Title: Re: Make another kickstarter 1 week short ?
Post by: Algarn on December 21, 2014, 12:23:29 am
Having some permanent independent funding system would be the best solution actually. (Updated the original post, I really didn't know the term kickstarter was exclusively linked with the website... Shame on me)