Strakeln wrote on Feb 16^th, 2015 at 8:45pm:



yeah looks like no one is touching the 1000 pledge either.  almost all the pledges between 1000 and 7500 are wide open.

they'll fail.

Strakeln wrote on Feb 16^th, 2015 at 8:45pm:

You're over-extrapolating.  The problem isn't the tiers, it's that the number of people that gave an actual shit about Ultima Underworld the first time are small.

I kicked $100 into the Wasteland II kickstarter.  I could've easily kicked in more, but only reason for the $100 was because I stole the original game, and played it forever. 

Believe me, if they (Looking Glass) rolled a real Thief V kickstarter (not this Edios, pre-programmed path, can't jump wherever bullshit), they'd probably do in the low millions, like wasteland.  They, of course, can't do that because they lost the rights to Thief a long time ago.

What is hilarious is that LSL can turn out more fans than Ultima Underworld.  That tell's you all you need to know.

I was a pretty comprehensive pc gamers for over two decade and even I never gave a shit about UU.

Now, if people are looking for kickstarter games to ressurect, may I suggest the following:

Magic Carpet
Ascendancy
Bard's Tale (actually will be a new inExile kickstarter)

Arkat wrote on Feb 17^th, 2015 at 10:43am:

I've been pretty happy w/ Wasteland, so contribution would probably be well spent.  I kicked in to Torment II as well, but one of the lower tiers.

Fargo has a particular incentive not to fuck up (and he's better at it than Schafer, who a friend of mine used to work for from his first DoubleFine title days) and commits a pretty fair amount of his own money to these projects.

iliveyourdream13 wrote on Feb 17^th, 2015 at 9:35am:



always beats retread vanillla game no one gives a shit about

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Seem like one of the big whales bailed out.

gawker wrote on Feb 18^th, 2015 at 3:56pm:

Failed business ventures aren't really news.

Any money you pledge via kickstarter should be money consider lost the minute you pledged it.  Then when you get the product, you're pleasantly surprised.

I believe tomorrow is the day of reckoning. Either we get Turbine dirt or we get to see the karma gremlin lose his shit. Or both.

Yobai wrote on Feb 17^th, 2015 at 5:36pm:

/fail

FuckThisShit wrote on Feb 20^th, 2015 at 3:30pm:


Reporting from the future - we can confirm there has been no release.
Repeat, negative on MajMal release.
Nothing on Wikileaks either.

Strakeln wrote on Feb 20^th, 2015 at 3:22pm:


No worries, I have set aside the appropriate amount of alcohol for either outcome. It's Funny, because its the same amount for both.

I will try to avoid drunk posting.

Strakeln wrote on Feb 20^th, 2015 at 3:22pm:

Gawker has set no guidelines for what he would consider dirt. All we know is that what Maj has said so far doesn't qualify in Gawk's eyes. The truth is closer to: if Maj says it, Gawker hates it. If someone says something that could be construed as defending Maj, Gawker hates that person, too.

To be fair, Maj has set no guidelines, either. Maybe his "dirt" will be, "You know that Pac-Man LARP? Tolero totally cheated."


DropBear wrote on Feb 20^th, 2015 at 8:08pm:

ICU wrote on Feb 21^st, 2015 at 1:50am:

Who are you? Have the decency to log into your own Vault sock instead of posting on ICU's while he's passed out.