KickStarter Psychonauts 2

[Shammy]

No way I will give money to Tim. Not in this life. Not for another scam.

Anyway, the worst thing from this pitch is the artist Nathan Stapley. That retard will never be able to create something even remotely good.

He's so bad with money it's almost bizarre. Broken Age wasn't even that great, hardly felt like THAT much money event went into it. I dunno, I wanna stay optimistic about Psychonauts 2 but Tim has proven to be incompetent as fuck with the dosh.

 

[Zed]

 

[Infinitron]

Seems a bit pointless to get excited over the campaign length thing, since it's not like you can't pledge for a crowfunded game after its campaign is done anyway (via Paypal).

Like, if somebody decides "Hey, we're getting a great response so we've decided we're going to do this for another week!", then why not? It'd be better if they publicly announced it, of course.

 

[ghostdog]

Seems a bit pointless to get excited over the campaign length thing, since it's not like you can't pledge for a crowfunded game after its campaign its done anyway (via Paypal).

Like, if somebody decides "Hey, we're getting a great response so we've decided we're going to do this for another week!", then why not? It'd be better if they publicly announced it, of course.

Yeah but they didn't get the initial response they were expecting, did they? That's why they increased the campaign length.

I wont be backing this because IMO the only man with real talent in double fine is Tim and his talent is in writing and not in management. As far as I'm concerned all their artists, programmers and gameplay system developers are sub-par.

 

[Infinitron]

Initial response seems fine to me. Seems more likely that they set the wrong campaign length at first, or that they figured out it'd be better for it to end on a particular day of the week, or something like that.

 

[Metro]

Obviously not a surprise since he runs Fig. It's not Kickstarter where there's a third party controlling things. And, yeah, it doesn't matter. Broken Age had a Kickstarter, PayPal beg funds, and a few Double Fine Humbles to fund it.

I'd be curious to know, aside from Schaefer, who is left at Double Fine that actually worked on Psychonauts 1?

 

[Renegen]

His ego.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Like, if somebody decides "Hey, we're getting a great response so we've decided we're going to do this for another week!", then why not? It'd be better if they publicly announced it, of course.

They're saying it was a website glitch.

. Broken Age had a Kickstarter, PayPal beg funds, and a few Double Fine Humbles to fund it.
?

Lolwhat.

 

[Metro]

Did I stutter?

Pay

Pal

Beg

Funds

 

[aratuk]

To me, it seems pretty ridiculous to adopt the posture of forever hating [game developer] because [a game] didn't live up to your expectations, especially if you did enjoy [other games they made].

The relative amounts of money and time involved, for a consumer, are very small. You should want developers who have made things you like to feel free to experiment, and accept that experiments don't always work out. You pay for it, you give it a shot, maybe you don't like it, you stop playing, oh well, maybe next time. That's how I feel about Spacebase, anyway. It was a neat idea. I paid (not much) for it. They were losing money on it and eventually had to stop development. I don't feel scammed. Not everything you make will be your greatest success, or any kind of success. So what? I do like Hack 'n' Slash, Psychonauts, a lot of the ideas in Massive Chalice, and other Doublefine games.

It's just surprising, the extent to which some things – cheap, trivial things – take on a lot of significance for people who claim not to enjoy them.

 

[Metro]

Stockholm Syndrome at its finest.

 

[Nahel]

This justification could be used for basically anything. We can forgive mistakes, especially with Publisher pressure or lack of money. Getting your own kickstarter, failing and wasting the money is a different thing. Innovation is cool but it does not excuse everything. And this "cheap, trivial thing" is called my money and could be used to support valuable game developpers.

 

[aratuk]

Stockholm Syndrome at its finest.

Facile. If one of us can overlook shortcomings to enjoy most of a developer's games, and the other spends his time selectively complaining about its mediocrities, who is the hostage?

 

[Zed]

Seems a bit pointless to get excited over the campaign length thing, since it's not like you can't pledge for a crowfunded game after its campaign its done anyway (via Paypal).

Like, if somebody decides "Hey, we're getting a great response so we've decided we're going to do this for another week!", then why not? It'd be better if they publicly announced it, of course.

Initial response seems fine to me. Seems more likely that they set the wrong campaign length at first, or that they figured out it'd be better for it to end on a particular day of the week, or something like that.

backer detected

 

[J_C]

Seems a bit pointless to get excited over the campaign length thing, since it's not like you can't pledge for a crowfunded game after its campaign its done anyway (via Paypal).

Like, if somebody decides "Hey, we're getting a great response so we've decided we're going to do this for another week!", then why not? It'd be better if they publicly announced it, of course.

Initial response seems fine to me. Seems more likely that they set the wrong campaign length at first, or that they figured out it'd be better for it to end on a particular day of the week, or something like that.

backer detected
Rational human being detected.

Fixed.

 

[J_C]

Seems a bit pointless to get excited over the campaign length thing, since it's not like you can't pledge for a crowfunded game after its campaign its done anyway (via Paypal).

Like, if somebody decides "Hey, we're getting a great response so we've decided we're going to do this for another week!", then why not? It'd be better if they publicly announced it, of course.

Yeah but they didn't get the initial response they were expecting,

>1,8 million in 3 days.
>not getting the responste they were expecting

Instead of pulling the usual Codex edgy response maybe somebody could think about the possibility that in many countries salary is paid on the 10th on the month, and the original campaign ended on the 7th.

 

[Neckbeard Shitlord]

Holy crap you are more cucked by timmy than unkillable cat.

 

[Infinitron]

I am not backing this.

 

[J_C]

Holy crap you are more cucked by timmy than unkillable cat.

I'd like the term "intelligent, sane human being" more. Not that I'm offended by the opinion of a shitposter.

 

[Havoc]

 

[J_C]

Hi! Freeman from Fig here. It was a small bug in our campaign editing tool that we fixed. It's now the correct end date that was intended prior to the campaign starting.

 

[Metro]

Stockholm Syndrome at its finest.

Facile. If one of us can overlook shortcomings to enjoy most of a developer's games, and the other spends his time selectively complaining about its mediocrities, who is the hostage?

Most of Double Fine's games aren't good.

 

[Neckbeard Shitlord]

Likely story. As if they would not notice that the first time they loaded the page.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Did I stutter?

Pay

Pal

Beg

Funds

lolwhat.

 

[DosBuster]

Wait a sec, they're accepting paypal funds directly to them now when the game isn't even funded? Fucking hell Tim...