Yup, that sums up his unique brand of insanity nicely. Out of context it also makes it sound a bit like a cult...
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Richard Garriott Explains Why He Needs a $1 Million Kickstarter
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Eh, I understand why people would complain but it makes perfect sense to me for him to do this. I mean, he's not asking $1,000,000 from each individual customer. He's attempting to acquire $1,000,000 worth of investment so he knows he has a player base. As people here have demonstrated, he's not exactly universally loved. Before he dumps a sizable chunk of personal money into a guaranteed flop, he's making sure there's actually interest in the game he's building. I mean, Ultima IX was over a decade ago and the people who remember it are still bitter.
If you're not interested, don't invest. If nobody's interested, nobody will invest and the game won't get made. Not because this $1,000,000 is critical to the game getting made, but because if he can't get $1,000,000 in interest based on his name and this basic idea, it's unlikely he'll get the significantly larger numbers needed to make a profit on the finished product.
If you're not interested, don't invest. If nobody's interested, nobody will invest and the game won't get made. Not because this $1,000,000 is critical to the game getting made, but because if he can't get $1,000,000 in interest based on his name and this basic idea, it's unlikely he'll get the significantly larger numbers needed to make a profit on the finished product.
Is it sad that I have played Ultima since I was a child, but the only reason why I even know of Garriott by name is due to The Spoony Experiment.
Seems like he's trying to say "I will make this game, and I am willing to put a sizeable portion of my resources towards it, but first, I want proof you actually want it."
Sounds like a combination of funding and surveying, if he can gather $1,000,000 from a kickstarter, then the base is probably large enough to make a successful game. Seems reasonable.
Sounds like a combination of funding and surveying, if he can gather $1,000,000 from a kickstarter, then the base is probably large enough to make a successful game. Seems reasonable.
1 million could only be a fraction of what this game should cost in total.
So it's a single player game AND an MMORPG with rentable houses and player run shops and such. Costs more like 10X as much, IF the gfx will remain primitive and no little or no voice acting is featured, else it's more like 100X the target amount.
It seems to me then that Lord British is testing the waters. Maybe he wants a loyal fanbase to play his game with.
This project gives me a bad feeling. Seems way too ambitious and unfocussed to me. As for the campaign, what the promotional vid is missing is the rest of the team. It's just LB praising himself basicly.
So it's a single player game AND an MMORPG with rentable houses and player run shops and such. Costs more like 10X as much, IF the gfx will remain primitive and no little or no voice acting is featured, else it's more like 100X the target amount.
It seems to me then that Lord British is testing the waters. Maybe he wants a loyal fanbase to play his game with.
This project gives me a bad feeling. Seems way too ambitious and unfocussed to me. As for the campaign, what the promotional vid is missing is the rest of the team. It's just LB praising himself basicly.
I'm not KickStartin' someone who abandoned a project and went to space.
You don't give money to people who go to space. They can get money on their own. Seriously.
I don't favor the opinion on "Awareness Campaign". Sick of this crap. As others have said, Kickstarter isn't a cheap commercial gimmick for rich entrepreneurs to play around with to advertise their side-projects. It cheapens everything that Kickstarter stands for.
The spirit of Kickstarter, whether its the original intent or not.. is a platform for Indies or people with original ideas with not enough or no resources to start on their own. (Or the recent trend of devs legitimately shaking off the Publisher Monkey, which I am fine with if they are serious and need help to do so)
Got the money to Kickstart your own project? Advertise it yourself, dude.
Basically what's happening here: You're paying for an astronaut's PR campaign. Let that sink in a bit.
You don't give money to people who go to space. They can get money on their own. Seriously.
I don't favor the opinion on "Awareness Campaign". Sick of this crap. As others have said, Kickstarter isn't a cheap commercial gimmick for rich entrepreneurs to play around with to advertise their side-projects. It cheapens everything that Kickstarter stands for.
The spirit of Kickstarter, whether its the original intent or not.. is a platform for Indies or people with original ideas with not enough or no resources to start on their own. (Or the recent trend of devs legitimately shaking off the Publisher Monkey, which I am fine with if they are serious and need help to do so)
Got the money to Kickstart your own project? Advertise it yourself, dude.
Basically what's happening here: You're paying for an astronaut's PR campaign. Let that sink in a bit.
I'll never understand why America works that way. I didn't have to pay a cent for my education (other than travelling there), education should be there for everyone.Mylinkay Asdara said:
OT: Errr no. These well off famous people starting kick starters are rediculas. It's there to help lesser known get off their feet or games from genres that aren't mainstream enough to get funding by publishers.