I've always wondered

oldassgamersoldassgamers Join Date: 2011-02-02 Member: 80033Members, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow
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<div class="IPBDescription">Read to understand what I mean :D</div>How come NS2 hasn't never been on <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/" target="_blank">http://www.kickstarter.com/</a> . A place where people may donate to make a dream come through and a good place to spread the word about it. :)
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  • Squirreli_Squirreli_ Join Date: 2012-04-25 Member: 151046Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Well, the deal with the pre-orders on a long-way-from-release NS2 was pretty much the same idea. This has been pointed out by devs in interviews also... So yeah, they pretty much did Kickstarter before there was a Kickstarter.
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  • Soul_RiderSoul_Rider Mod Bean Join Date: 2004-06-19 Member: 29388Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue
    Didn't NS2 get it's investment funding before kickstarter took off? I may be wrong there, but I feel they got their investment fairly early in the process.
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  • ZeikkoZeikko Join Date: 2007-12-16 Member: 63179Members, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester
    Because Kickstarter was founded in April 28th, 2009 and Natural Selection 2 was mainly funded earlier around 2007 and 2008. I would argue that UWE did their own kickstarter before Kickstarter even existed.
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  • oldassgamersoldassgamers Join Date: 2011-02-02 Member: 80033Members, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited September 2012
    I just wish they used NS2 for kickstarter before steam release because just look how successful kickstarter is. Take this for an example:
    <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity?ref=discover_pop" target="_blank">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidi...ef=discover_pop</a>

    After four days they've gained over 1.5mil.

    Also in kickstarter there is alot of people, so spreading out the word about NS2 is also succesful using kickstarter.
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  • SrCumferenceSrCumference Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3740Members
    Yeah, Kickstarter would have been nice, but although it existed when NS2 was being funded initially it was not anywhere near the levels we see today. One can dream, but I give the team major props for slogging through and kickstarting themselves.

    Major props.

    I can only imagine how different everything would have been if funded that way though... I think it went pretty well though!
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  • ScardyBobScardyBob ScardyBob Join Date: 2009-11-25 Member: 69528Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    <!--quoteo(post=1979573:date=Sep 18 2012, 07:28 AM:name=Zeikko)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Zeikko @ Sep 18 2012, 07:28 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1979573"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Because Kickstarter was founded in April 28th, 2009 and Natural Selection 2 was mainly funded earlier around 2007 and 2008. I would argue that UWE did their own kickstarter before Kickstarter even existed.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    This^
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  • extolloextollo Ping Blip Join Date: 2010-07-16 Member: 72457Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1979576:date=Sep 18 2012, 10:35 AM:name=oldassgamers)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (oldassgamers @ Sep 18 2012, 10:35 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1979576"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I just wish they used NS2 for kickstarter before steam release because just look how successful kickstarter is. Take this for an example:
    <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity?ref=discover_pop" target="_blank">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidi...ef=discover_pop</a>

    After four days they've gained over 1.5mil.

    Also in kickstarter there is alot of people, so spreading out the word about NS2 is also succesful using kickstarter.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    well.. project eternity isnt a fair example. i'm leaning that it's more marketing than actually needing the kickstarter funding. huge in-built fan-base for that type of game. idk. maybe funders looked at arcanum and ToEE early sales & had second thoughts.
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  • DrummerDrummer Join Date: 2004-02-18 Member: 26654Members
    ns2 kickstarted kickstarter, as well as themselves
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  • Squeal_Like_A_PigSqueal_Like_A_Pig Janitor Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 66Members, Super Administrators, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Reinforced - Supporter, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer
    As mentioned here already, we did the whole "ask the community to help pay for the game development" long before Kickstarter was really up and running for that sort of thing.

    We probably would have tried that out, if we had to do it over again and kickstarter was around. However there are some drawbacks.

    For one thing, we've made more money off of pre-orders which continue all through development, then we probably would have made from asking for one fixed amount of money. The other thing is that all those kickstarter campaigns come with a very real cost to the developer, which is all the perks. There are a lot of companies that have complained about getting the funding they needed, but then having to spend months making and packing and shipping out all the Backer perks, like t-shirts and posters etc.

    --Cory
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