Update: Project Eternity Sets Record as Most Funded Videogame

[Doom-Slayer]

Just pledged 160 now for the $140 option. Yeeeeeeeeeeeah but awwww...2014...

 

[Altorin]

When Obsidian announced Project Eternity with promises of old school isometric RPG gameplay in the same vein as Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment, the floodgates opened. The game reached its initial funding goal within 24 hours [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/119618-Obsidians-Project-Eternity-Hits-1-4-Million-in-Three-Days] and broke through the $1 million barrier in a matter of days.

Even a cursory glance at the kickstarter page would reveal that their initial funding goal was 1.1mil. So... they broke the 1 million barrier in 24 hours, not a matter of days

 

[Erttheking]

"Looks up the kickstarter" holy crap, they have one more stretch goal. An enhanced game if they hit 4 million. 3.894 million and a little more than an hour to go...can they make it?

 

[Sight Unseen]

$3,915,000 on the kickstarter page alone. Over $100,000 on Paypal. The 4 million dollar goal has already been surpassed. Amazing!

Currently the dungeon is sitting at 14 levels, with the possibility of having 15 levels by the end! For perspective, the original diablo had 16 levels... This dungeon is going to be EPIC.

I'm so excited for this project and I really hope they keep up the awesome level of community involvement that they've had for the whole kickstarter run.


43 mins to go

 

[Terrible Opinions]

Plus PayPal money.

Now the hard part begins: sobering up Chris Avellone.

 

[Arluza]

That is no where NEAR enough money to make a game in this age. They may be alright if they get 15-20 Million, though. That would make a decent game, before QA and marketing take a large chunk.

 

[Terrible Opinions]

You realize what kind of game this is, right?

Like, it's a 2d fixed-camera isometric game?

With barely any voice acting?

I like ending things with question marks?

 

[dyre]

Why does Chris Avellone need to reach $4 million to play Arcanum? Or rather, why hasn't he played Arcanum already? :\

That's pretty great though. Lots of good things happening on kickstarter. And FTL is sortof like a proof-of-concept that making games from kickstarter works

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

That is no where NEAR enough money to make a game in this age. They may be alright if they get 15-20 Million, though. That would make a decent game, before QA and marketing take a large chunk.

For a multiplatform AAA release with ultra-graphics/bloom perhaps, but this is more of an overgrown niche title for PC/Linux/Mac. Besides marketing is rather pointless at this point with all the press about it's record-breaking kickstarter.

 

[DasDestroyer]

Too bad we didn't get the secret 4 million reward - bug testing

 

[Don Reba]

That is no where NEAR enough money to make a game in this age. They may be alright if they get 15-20 Million, though. That would make a decent game, before QA and marketing take a large chunk.

The money they got will support 60 people working full-time for a year (not counting Kickstarter's or Amazon's cuts or reward costs). They are not making a MMORPG or the next CoD.

 

[PurePareidolia]

Too bad we didn't get the secret 4 million reward - bug testing

Including Paypal we got over $4.1 million, so yeah - we totally did.

 

[Issurru]

Totally pumped about this. Now only the long arduous wait until it's done... I donated 160 so I get quite a few goodies and I can't wait for this to be a fucking fantastic game and hopefully bring back some of the good old rpg goodness

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

That is pretty amazing. Goes to show how much the gaming community can do. But it makes me sad that we're funding video games. We could use our collective resources and intelligence to do greater things than to simply fund video games. Perhaps this is a sign of things to come.

 

[Evil Smurf]

You realize what kind of game this is, right?

Like, it's a 2d fixed-camera isometric game?

With barely any voice acting?

I like ending things with question marks?

yep the type of games publishers said no one wanted anymore and it wasnt worth making them.

GLORIOUS VICTORY !

I just like how Dory the fish plays games

 

[Vault Citizen]

You realize what kind of game this is, right?

Like, it's a 2d fixed-camera isometric game?

With barely any voice acting?

I like ending things with question marks?

yep the type of games publishers said no one wanted anymore and it wasnt worth making them.

GLORIOUS VICTORY !

Have you ever wa he'd the episode of how I met your mother with the Swedish architects named Sven? The voice one of them uses when he says "Push it for glory" is the voice imagined when I read "glorious victory"

I'm glad that they met all heir stretch goals and I can't wait I play the game in 2014. There was a brief window in which I could have lowered my pledge for the same rewards but I wanted Obsidian to have as much money as possibl to work with, granted th difference was only 5 bucks but very little helps.

 

[crimson sickle2]

If this is game is somehow their buggiest game or worst game every gamer in the future will shield their wallets from kickstarters like a mother shields her child from a Hobo

 

[Kellogs Fried Chickn]

Too bad we didn't get the secret 4 million reward - bug testing

That was a nice burn.

What I got out of this deal was that if the 4m goal was reached, Chris Avellone would be forced to play Arcanum.

 

[MrGamer]

Way to go Obsidian!

 

[Scorpid]

This Kickstarter is actually the first game kickstarter that has convinced me that this method of funding is here to stay for the forseeable future. We still haven't seen how the Kickstarter gaming community will react to its first big dud of a project but I'm optimistic after this one that it'll not destroy this funding method in the eyes of backers. I wonder how long till we see the fist triple A style budget game with a 30million price tag. People say 'oh that can't happen' but you know if any of these games are run away best sellers it's going to bring only far more people into the kickstarter funding community.