Project 1999 Pantheon Pledge Drive!

[Derubael]

Originally Posted by impact [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I for one am tired of supporting games before they are even finished. It's total B.S. Games should not be even for sale until they are finished, polished, working correctly, full games. More and more we see this, buy the game before it's finished B.S. NOPE. Finish the game, I will take a look at it, and if it interests me THEN I will support the fucking game. Don't ask me to support some game that I have no idea what it will be like, and I may end up hating it. Why would anyone do that? Derp a herp a

Games cost money to make. If you want games you enjoy playing to be made, vote with your dollars. Particularly independently funded games. For example, Tim Schafer and Doublefine productions made a great game that was almost entirely crowdsource funded via Kickstarter - they made a game their fans wanted to see, something they weren't able to do without that resource. The game was pitched to multiple publishing companies who turned it down. It would have never been made if not for Kickstarter.

It would be nice to see Pantheon get enough funding to not have to bring on a publisher or investors. It doesn't look like that's going to happen (although if the KS starts picking up - and we've seen it happen in the past with other projects - maybe they won't need to) but that doesn't mean those publishers/investors they bring on will change the goal of the project.

Any outside funding they bring in is only going to sign on with the knowledge of the kind of game Visionary is trying to make. As in, a challenging, social MMO bringing aspects of classic MMORPG's like EQ up to date with modern technology and systems. While I agree with everyone's sentiments about big $$ brought in from the outside screwing up games, I firmly believe that in this case, with this clear of a goal, and specifically with such a niche target audience, a publisher isn't going to veer the entire project off course to reach a wider group of people.

That's assuming they even have to take a publisher, and aren't able to do it with investors/crowdfunding instead. Generate enough interest with the Kickstarter, and you won't need a publisher. Anytime someone sees 'hey, a ton of people just paid almost a million bucks for a game that won't even be made for another 3 years', that's going to pique their interest.

TL;dr, support crowdfunded projects, especially ones that are targeted for your play-style like Pantheon is.


Also, please do not turn this into a flame thread. If I have to start pruning posts that should be in RnF, I'm going to start banning forum accounts as well. Go to RnF if you'd like to talk shit please. You can make your own thread and everything.

and a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who has donated to Pantheon so far!! I was looking at their donate list this morning and a TON of you have already signed on! Keep it up!