WinterfuryZX Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 It has already arenated at 71k... better than nothing, I suppose... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satsuki Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Actually FrontWing is pretty active too. They even made a main site/Twitter/Facebook for Western customers. I don't think Regista even have a Twitter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuee Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 2 minutes ago, Satsuki said: Actually FrontWing is pretty active too. They even made a main site/Twitter/Facebook for Western customers. I don't think Regista even have a Twitter? They have one and they made an English one around the time the kickstarter started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBladeNova Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 7 minutes ago, Satsuki said: Actually FrontWing is pretty active too. They even made a main site/Twitter/Facebook for Western customers. I don't think Regista even have a Twitter? Apparently they do, but I don't see it communicating much. https://twitter.com/regista_eng Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdomcome Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 The new tiers for the same price are better for sure. I'm a sucker for name in credits too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBladeNova Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 5 minutes ago, kingdomcome said: The new tiers for the same price are better for sure. I'm a sucker for name in credits too. At the very least, the $99 tier seems reasonable enough... hope more people go for that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterfuryZX Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 It will get overshadowed by all this vita mess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satsuki Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 What, they have an English twitter but no one goes riot on them yet? Yeah, seeing their twitter with only 44 followers, it's pretty obvious that they left all of the customer interacting job to SP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VirginSmasher Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 6 minutes ago, Satsuki said: What, they have an English twitter but no one goes riot on them yet? Yeah, seeing their twitter with only 44 followers, it's pretty obvious that they left all of the customer interacting job to SP. Nobody seems like they're trying all that hard. Especially Register, who aren't even interacting with the VN community. Sekai Project didn't try much with getting the KS out there until recently. This Kickstarter is a giant example on how not to do a Kickstarter. kingdomcome 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterfuryZX Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I really hope dovac is planning to autopledge the last 10k if the kickstarter is 90% funded st the last hour... This is a quick and a little dishonest way to Save The Day if the kickstarter is near funding kingdomcome 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solidbatman Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 $225 for the Vita option? Fuck that. If it gets funded, I'll buy the damn Vita version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBladeNova Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I'm sure this could all work out if SP were to just lower the Vita to $99... grim_tales1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbro Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I don't understand why the vita port is in such an expensive tier. I might have considered it if it were less expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decay Posted January 24, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2016 I'm sure that's an overly optimistic point of view. Look, the addition of a Vita version was never going to create some kind of grand surge that pushed the project past the finish line. It was only ever going to produce a small boost. If they lowered the vita version's tier level, I truly don't believe that it would help much at all. The lack of a vita version was never the problem with this kickstarter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Sekai Project just sent out an email to newsletter subscribers to tempt them into backing Root Double at the $30 tier or higher. If your email subscription address and Kickstarter email address are the same, and you back it, you're automatically entered in to win these items: 5 Grand prize winners which include a Physical copy of CLANNAD, Physical copy of The Fruit of Grisaia, and a choice of 2 Steam keys from our pool of released games on Steam. 20 winners who will get 1 Steam Key from a pool of our released games on Steam. This giveaway does not apply if you are not subscribed to their emails. Hoping they share the news on a Kickstarter update, but fans will likely do that for them. It would be super sad for people who pledged hundreds to not even be aware that they could win free stuff because they never subscribed to yet another newsletter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decay Posted January 24, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2016 Time to look at some cold, hard, numbers. From the time the vita version was announced, $3100 was raised. I don't think you could have honestly hoped for much more. That's honestly better than I was expecting, lol. This is going to drop off again pretty soon. If the tier was half as much, I wonder if they would have brought in enough new backers to compensate with it? Maybe not. I still think this is the wrong way to go about things, but at least some people are backing. It probably would have been best if they just issued the thing as a tier-independent add-on for an affordable cost. And also if it wasn't over a year out. Not much they can do about that one though, from the looks of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solidbatman Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 14 minutes ago, Marcus said: Sekai Project just sent out an email to newsletter subscribers to tempt them into backing Root Double at the $30 tier or higher. If your email subscription address and Kickstarter email address are the same, and you back it, you're automatically entered in to win these items: 5 Grand prize winners which include a Physical copy of CLANNAD, Physical copy of The Fruit of Grisaia, and a choice of 2 Steam keys from our pool of released games on Steam. 20 winners who will get 1 Steam Key from a pool of our released games on Steam. This giveaway does not apply if you are not subscribed to their emails. Hoping they share the news on a Kickstarter update, but fans will likely do that for them. It would be super sad for people who pledged hundreds to not even be aware that they could win free stuff because they never subscribed to yet another newsletter. This reeks of desperation, but I hope it works out for them and it boosts the numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim_tales1 Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 So we''ll never get to play this potentially amazing VN at all. Sad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 It seems like this could even be illegal so things aren't looking great for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decay Posted January 24, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2016 I really thought that sounded fishy but I didn't want to do the research myself, thanks jonjon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deep Blue Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 it's picking up the pace again, this is probably one of the weirdest campaign i've seen it goes from doing almost nothing to 5k in a day, btw i did not get that email im not sure if im subscribed to the email list or not... seems like i'm not but i dont even know where to check if i am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosRaven Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Considering how much money Libra gained in the last days, I'm still optimistic that Root Double will make it. It has 10 days less than Libra after all, so everything looks much tighter. But I'm pretty sure it'll get a heavy backing spike in the last days. *keeps fingers crossed* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBladeNova Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 This may go down in history as the most controversial VN Kickstarter ever... @Decay, sorry for my overly optimistic viewpoint then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBladeNova Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Oh, I found this in the Neogaf forum: "Hey all, While ducking and avoiding your rocks, let me just first of say that I respect everyone's opinion on price and all that. I worked day and night for months to even get to this point, and we're not completely insane. At least I hope not. I'm not here to convince anyone, but let me clarify something, regardless of what you think of it. We faced an obstacle here where people wanted Vita, and we wanted to do Vita. Our Vita development has gotten solid and progressing nicely with our devkits getting hot lately, so we were always eager. I began working on getting this done before the campaign even. The issue is development and licensing. The whole dev team in Japan has to come back to refit the engine to work with the increased script size, voices need to be worked out, basically a bit ol licensing hootnanny. They were not easily convinced to go back to working on this engine just cause. Regardless of what people think of the tiers and that stuff, that's something we have to meet in the middle on with the developers and such, and we try our best and there's tons of great content there. But with Vita, we are left with few options. RD is not some sort of huge anime franchise which soars past stretch goal after stretch goal. So either we have to guarantee the port at a loss to us, or not do it at all and be even more meany heads for not caring about Vita. So the only option is to include it with other rewards (the price of the Vita port is not 225 by itself) and let those rewards directly fund the development, or nothing. So the Vita tiers go straight to funding the development to make this port possible in the first place, not to jack up the price for Vita just cause. Again, I am not asking people to like me by saying that, but its not just some sort of idiotic move made by me to screw myself over. I got everyone to agree to a term where we could offer Vita for sure without having to climb stretch goals, but rather that those who helps out the campaign and wants Vita gets it no matter what regardless. Hope we are all still cool no matter how it all works out." MiKandi Japan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred the Barber Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Let's not bury this one unless and until it's dead - particularly, give it at least a day before trying to measure the impact (or lack thereof) of today's announcements. It's only been a few hours, and not all of us are on our computers 24/7. But I will agree things aren't looking especially rosy. Additionally, I have to agree that the raffle seems well-intentioned, ill-inspired, and likely illegal. I can't help but give Sekai Project kudos on achieving that particular trifecta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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