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Post by Regolyth on May 13, 2014 14:49:33 GMT -5
I'm backing Shards (now Legends of Aria) on Kickstarter. Ruby Level ($50) - A thank you from the Shards development team
- Access to official Backer Forums
- 1 digital copy of Shards Online
- 3 high resolution wallpapers
- 4 additional weeks of Optional Premium Subscription
- "Ruby Backer" in-game title
- Access to Founders Only Shard
- Alpha access
- Digital manual
- Digital soundtrack
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Post by Morreion on May 14, 2014 14:08:06 GMT -5
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Post by Morreion on Sept 4, 2014 15:34:22 GMT -5
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Post by Regolyth on Oct 16, 2014 19:57:26 GMT -5
I finally got around to backing Star Citizen. I've been meaning to do it for a year or so, but I keep forgetting about it.  Package - 325A - Origin 325a Fighter
- Starting Money: 2,000 UEC
- Digital Game Soundtrack
- Digital Star Citizen Manual
- Star Citizen Digital Download
- 4 Month Insurance
- Digital Star Map
- Squadron 42 Digital Download
- Beta Access
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Post by Morreion on Oct 16, 2014 22:44:27 GMT -5
I finally got around to backing Star Citizen. Awesome, Rego! I fiddled around with my original donation- I ended up with the Pathfinder package (very similar to yours) with the Origin 315p Explorer, and I have the RSI Aurora LX - LTI (the deluxe Aurora starting spacecraft) with lifetime insurance. I am so looking forward to space exploration and merchant missions! |
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Post by Regolyth on Oct 18, 2014 17:01:19 GMT -5
Oo~ Lifetime insurance, huh? That's pretty nice. While we're on the subject of Star Citizen, apparently it only runs on DirectX 11 (as of May this year, due to some patch that was put out for the CryEngine, which SC runs off of). I'm still running the computer I built five years ago, which runs an ATI Radeon 4800 graphics card, which only supports DirectX 10.1. So I went to check out my ship in my hanger and I can't run the game.  I wasn't aware of this until I had already backed it. I'm sure they'll change this upon release (or maybe not, since it's over a year away and we should all be on DX 11 anyways). But I really wanted to run around my hanger the other day. |
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Post by Morreion on Oct 19, 2014 0:19:47 GMT -5
Awww man! That's a good reason to buy or build another gaming PC though- 'I need this for Star Citizen!' Works for me!  |
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Post by Loendal on Oct 20, 2014 20:09:44 GMT -5
Newbie question: What happens if I fund a given title and they don't reach their goal and shut down the funding and/or making the game. Do I get my money back or is it lost forever?
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Post by dortmunder on Oct 20, 2014 20:51:06 GMT -5
Newbie question: What happens if I fund a given title and they don't reach their goal and shut down the funding and/or making the game. Do I get my money back or is it lost forever? Depends how the funding is given probably. I think Kickstarter has a program in place to refund money if the goal isn't reached. If you back a company through Paypal or something, and it turns out a year down the road they cancel it, you're probably out of luck. A good company/developer would probably refund the money. A shadier group may just keep it and probably get sued, or file for bankruptcy ect. It's likely that if a game gets cancelled there's no money left, anyways  |
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Post by Morreion on Oct 20, 2014 22:35:56 GMT -5
Newbie question: What happens if I fund a given title and they don't reach their goal and shut down the funding and/or making the game. Do I get my money back or is it lost forever? I've only used Kickstarter for crowdfunding (out of the major crowdfunding websites), and if the monetary pledge goal for a Kickstarter project is not reached, you are not charged for the amount you pledged. Other crowdfunding services may be different. The only way your pledge is ever collected on Kickstarter is if the project meets or exceeds its monetary pledge goal in its given amount of time (which always has a time limit). Kickstarter uses Amazon Payments. Say a Kickstarter project seeks $100,000.00 in 30 days to fund a game idea. Say you pledge $50 to this project. In 30 days, if the project receives $100k or more in pledges, your pledge will be collected through Amazon Payments. If the project only collects $40k in pledges, in 30 days the Kickstarter fails and you keep your $50 pledge. As someone who has backed 6 Kickstarter projects so far with only 1 getting funded, I have to say that it seems that successful Kickstarter games are not common...at least the ones I'm interested in  Now, I've backed Star Citizen and Shroud of the Avatar directly through their websites- they do their own crowdfunding. When you do that, you have to trust the devs that they will use your money in the way they say they will. I don't look at my pledge as an investment, I look at it as a good-will gift. I've heard speculation on crowdfunding structures that may give equity in a game to the proportion of one's pledge. I've no idea if this can be legally done as an investment or if the government would allow it. |
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I wasn't aware of this until I had already backed it. I'm sure they'll change this upon release (or maybe not, since it's over a year away and we should all be on DX 11 anyways). But I really wanted to run around my hanger the other day.
