KICKSTART it back again
By
RoleplayerX,
Posted on: 2012-09-01 01:47 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Paragon Studios folks,
If buying City of Heroes and continuing development interests you, Kickstarter could be the way to go. Marc Miller, creator of the classic Sci-Fi roleplaying game "Traveller" had been working on version 5 of the game for years, but never seemed to get any closer to publication. He used Kickstarter and set a goal of $24,000 so he could get the game published. In the end, he raised an unbelievable $294,628. Let me say that again, because it's just so amazing, he raised OVER A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS to publish the 5th edition of a very old pen & paper roleplaying game. With this community, I think you stand a VERY good chance of raising a lot more than that.
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There's the problem of kickstarter being trustworthy. Most of the people here genuinely want to see this game continue but there are some who would start a kickstarter claiming that the proceeds would go towards keeping the game afloat but instead take the cash for themselves.|
Originally Posted by RoleplayerX
Paragon Studios folks,
If buying City of Heroes and continuing development interests you, Kickstarter could be the way to go. Marc Miller, creator of the classic Sci-Fi roleplaying game "Traveller" had been working on version 5 of the game for years, but never seemed to get any closer to publication. He used Kickstarter and set a goal of $24,000 so he could get the game published. In the end, he raised an unbelievable $294,628. Let me say that again, because it's just so amazing, he raised OVER A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS to publish the 5th edition of a very old pen & paper roleplaying game. With this community, I think you stand a VERY good chance of raising a lot more than that. |
I would trust it more if it were one started by an ex-dev but they probably can't do that because of one legal tieup or another.
Honestly, if what we've spent on the game already wasn't enough to not shut it down in the first place, I find myself disinclined to feed dollar bills to the ravenous beast of potentiality.
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
If all else fails, and by that I mean if there's no chance of Paragon Studios buying the game from NCSoft, or if the 'secret project' was CoH2 and will be scrapped, kickstart it.
Figure out how much money it would cost to buy the licens or do CoH2, then start a KICKSTARTER project. I would gess that most VIP players would be willing to shovel some money into that project. I would gladly throw in a couple of hundred dollars to keep myself in spandex flying through the city in search for more super powered villain.
http://www.kickstarter.com/
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