Kickstarter?

[Abe®]

After thinking long and hard I've come up with an idea on how to "kickstart" the new abe game. You guys could put a kickstarter thing to see if fans want a new game to be made and if they do, you'll have the money to do it!

I mean if wastelander, some random 1988 game got $2 million I'm pretty sure that you guys would get a lot too. Can't really hurt to try.

P.S. no troll comments this time. don't need to get this topic closed down too.

[Wil]

Obviously we and every video game developer from the last 50 years all evaluated our potential to profit from a Kickstarter project after Double Fine's amazing performance on it. If there's ever a time it would suit us, that time isn't now.

[STM]

Besides, Wasteland isn't a random game from 1988, it's the game that kicked off [nuclear] post-apocalyptic gaming. It seems that Fargo wanted to use Kickstater because no developer would have picked up the franchise. Oddworld doesn't have that problem as far as I'm aware.

[Varrok]

It seems that Fargo wanted to use Kickstater because no developer would have picked up the franchise.

I guess you mean publisher. He's got his own dev team, inXile. And as you've said Wasteland is definitely not a random game, it's Fallout's precursor (Fallout could have been named as Wasteland 2 (it's Wasteland's sort-of sequel), but it was changed due to legal terms)

BTW The project is now succesfully funded - reached over $3 000 000

[STM]

Yeah I meant publisher.

[Xavier]

As Wil said, I don't see how OWI could use a Kickstarter project now. They are lucky enough to be able to do what they want without having to ask the fans to fund their projects.