Update: Project Eternity Sets Record as Most Funded Videogame

[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.

 

[BloodRed Pixel]

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.

You mean like buying EA and make everything good?


PS:
I admit I was so long to and fro and finally sniped a $20 early bird tier within the last 3 minutes or so. I feel good

 

[dancinginfernal]

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?

I know, isn't it fantastic?

Oh god, is this infectious?

I'm concerned?

 

[Kargathia]

Will be looking forward to seeing if this game turns out to be as buggy as every other game they've made.

Obsidian('s fans) will have no excuses this time.

It'll get even more fun if they actually release a bug-free game, as chances are fans will end up being nostalgic about the good ol' days of horribly broken games.

 

[antipunt]

Breaking News!! This just in!

All members of Project Eternity found missing. Authorities suspect members left the country!

 

[Terrible Opinions]

More likely everyone but Josh Sawyer is nursing a hangover at the moment.

Except for Chris Avellone.

He just never stopped drinking.

 

[AnotherAvatar]

Will be looking forward to seeing if this game turns out to be as buggy as every other game they've made.

Obsidian('s fans) will have no excuses this time.

I hate people like you, gleefully waiting for something great to fail, and I bet you do so while loving some inanely shitty game series.

What's funny is that Obsidian's fans don't give two shits about glitches. For us Obsidian is about their amazing stories that consist of more than just "this dude is evil! SHOOT THIS DUDE!" and glitches have always sort of been a side-effect of the MASSIVE games they create. Most of their games don't end up half as glitchy and fucked as Bethesda's (namely, I couldn't clear some quests in Fallout 3 because of glitches, I did not have that problem when I played the initial release of New Vegas) yet I hear little to no shit talking in their direction.

I mean clearly we don't care because this is THE MOST FUNDED GAME OF ALL TIME. Let me just rub that in your face once more: OBSIDIAN ENTERTAINMENT JUST GOT THE MOST FUNDED KICKSTARTER OF ALL TIME: CLEARLY NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT A FEW SMALL GLITCHES THAT ARE USUALLY CAUSED BY VERY PUBLIC PUBLISHER PRESSURE TO RELEASE IT BY THE HOLIDAYS.

So yeah... why don't you just fuck on off and go be negative somewhere else. This game is going to rock, glitches or not.

 

[AnotherAvatar]

"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?

With the paypal, yes we did make it!

 

[AnotherAvatar]

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.

And it's inflated budgets like this that make sure that we'll never see a good AAA game.


Thankfully this isn't a multi-platform AAA title, and thankfully it won't need marketing as it's already gotten plenty of people to buy it, not to mention the huge press coverage of their success.

This isn't a Halo, it's an old school isometric RPG, they could have easily made the game for the 1.1 mill they were asking.

 

[AnotherAvatar]

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.

Collective resources and intelligence?

The hell are you talking about? I don't know what country you're from, but over here in America there is an obvious lack of collective resources and intelligence. Very few hold all the power, and even fewer hold all the smarts (because ignorant masses bought into the 80's and 90's rhetoric that said 'being dumb is cool, being smart is for nerds', also our school system is shit, so much so that it remains my least favorite memory of growing up in America, even over the terrifying Bush election where democracy was basically made a joke).

And while I wouldn't disagree that bad times are ahead, I don't think this game is a sign of that... I think our presidential elections featuring two puppets with lobbyists' hands so far up their asses we can see fingers when they slip the controls is a much better one. If you're looking for a game getting a lot of money that's a scary sign might I point you to Call of Duty? That so many people get all hyped up over a racist-war-hungry-gun-wank-game is mildly terrifying and a much better sign of the times.

Now I suppose this game might be a sign of the rise of escapism in the modern world, but I feel like you're making it a bigger issue than it is when there are more than enough of those massive issues around to point out.

 

[Sight Unseen]

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.

Collective resources and intelligence?

The hell are you talking about? I don't know what country you're from, but over here in America there is an obvious lack of collective resources and intelligence. Very few hold all the power, and even fewer hold all the smarts (because ignorant masses bought into the 80's and 90's rhetoric that said 'being dumb is cool, being smart is for nerds', also our school system is shit, so much so that it remains my least favorite memory of growing up in America, even over the terrifying Bush election where democracy was basically made a joke).

And while I wouldn't disagree that bad times are ahead, I don't think this game is a sign of that... I think our presidential elections featuring two puppets with lobbyists' hands so far up their asses we can see fingers when they slip the controls is a much better one. If you're looking for a game getting a lot of money that's a scary sign might I point you to Call of Duty? That so many people get all hyped up over a racist-war-hungry-gun-wank-game is mildly terrifying and a much better sign of the times.

Now I suppose this game might be a sign of the rise of escapism in the modern world, but I feel like you're making it a bigger issue than it is when there are more than enough of those massive issues around to point out.

I don't know why you're so up in arms about this comment. The way I read it I think it was a positive comment about the potential of crowdsourcing and how collectively we could potentially crowdfund much bigger and better things. Videogame crowdfunding is great, but can you imagine if we had ways to crowdfund more important things (not that I dont think videogames are important)?

 

[AnotherAvatar]

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.

Collective resources and intelligence?

The hell are you talking about? I don't know what country you're from, but over here in America there is an obvious lack of collective resources and intelligence. Very few hold all the power, and even fewer hold all the smarts (because ignorant masses bought into the 80's and 90's rhetoric that said 'being dumb is cool, being smart is for nerds', also our school system is shit, so much so that it remains my least favorite memory of growing up in America, even over the terrifying Bush election where democracy was basically made a joke).

And while I wouldn't disagree that bad times are ahead, I don't think this game is a sign of that... I think our presidential elections featuring two puppets with lobbyists' hands so far up their asses we can see fingers when they slip the controls is a much better one. If you're looking for a game getting a lot of money that's a scary sign might I point you to Call of Duty? That so many people get all hyped up over a racist-war-hungry-gun-wank-game is mildly terrifying and a much better sign of the times.

Now I suppose this game might be a sign of the rise of escapism in the modern world, but I feel like you're making it a bigger issue than it is when there are more than enough of those massive issues around to point out.

I don't know why you're so up in arms about this comment. The way I read it I think it was a positive comment about the potential of crowdsourcing and how collectively we could potentially crowdfund much bigger and better things. Videogame crowdfunding is great, but can you imagine if we had ways to crowdfund more important things (not that I dont think videogames are important)?

I didn't really look at it in that way, but I wouldn't say I'm quite up in arms, more just confused as there are far worse things getting much bigger chunks of people's money, I do see what you mean however, but I think trying to crowd source anything that actually matters will just end up in divided groups working against each other. With video games it's easy, I mean who doesn't like a bit of leisure?

Still, I see what you're saying.

 

[crazyrabbits]

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.

I was going to rake you over the coals for not reading their page, but I see everyone else has done it for me.

They outlined very clearly on their page how much would be needed to hit each content goal. Just $100,000 can fund (minimum) 2-3 people working at base salary for a year. Multiply that by 40 times and you can have a staff of 20-30 dedicated people in-house devoting their full time to the project, along with extra funds to optimize. They've gotten more free press out of this campaign than any other Kickstarter I've seen - it's been perfect to a T.

Also, most of the biggest projects these days aren't just AAA titles, but indie games funded by the fans and developers on their spare time. Do you think Minecraft cost $15 million? It was done over a couple years by a single guy working on it in his spare time.

The notion that you need $15-20 million to make a game symbolizes everything that's wrong with the industry, and you should be ashamed of yourself for even suggesting it. Project: Eternity is going to rock, and crowdfunding is to thank for it.

 

[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.

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When I said "a sign of things to come" I meant that in a good way.