Age of Annihilation - Backer Trend and Discussion

[nyys]

My biggest concern at the moment are the backers who are interested, see the current 'low' count, figure there's no way it funds at this rate and in turn doesn't bother to back (even though they want it to fund). That is definitely a thing with crowdfunding, sort of a reverse snowball.

Another thing HasLab should consider on the main page, is to show the dollar amount. A giant 600K looks way more impressive than backer count IMO.

[rudyvalentine]

Originally Posted by Captain Stupendous

Heroquest was a reprint, this is an expansion. I think that's a significant difference.

And I don’t think you can overstate the importance of a low and high tier. Heroquest at $99 with a few exclusives was an easy decision for a lot of people.

They have invested a lot of resources into this and I’m sure they believe it will succeed. If it doesn’t I don’t see them moving forward even if it’s only short by a small percentage. That’s why the news of app development starting is surprising to me when the current numbers don’t project this to fund right now.

But with the investments already made I would hope they look at why it didn’t work and consider making adjustments to try again in the future.

For all the criticisms it looks like they’re still going to raise over a million dollars which would fund a lot of pretty ambitious crowdfunding game projects. That should show them the game has legs and if they can implement some of the consistently requested changes (I see the same core comments everywhere, not just here where the most hardcore fans live) they should be able to hit their goal to get this into production.

[FrankensteinsMonster]

Originally Posted by nyys

My biggest concern at the moment are the backers who are interested, see the current 'low' count, figure there's no way it funds at this rate and in turn doesn't bother to back (even though they want it to fund). That is definitely a thing with crowdfunding, sort of a reverse snowball.

Another thing HasLab should consider on the main page, is to show the dollar amount. A giant 600K looks way more impressive than backer count IMO.

This right here is me and many others that are critical because we want to back it. Some things are wonky in my mind, some things just don’t add up, some things I don’t like but those are easily overcome and technically, those are lower on my scale of concerns.

I want to see these inconsistencies worked out, I want to see the campaign ironed out, I want to see the campaign reflect the fit and finish that they’re telling us the game will be. Right now, it’s coming off as amateur, fumbled and hurried.

[Sherman Davies]

Originally Posted by Captain Stupendous

Heroquest was a reprint, this is an expansion. I think that's a significant difference.

Yeah, I think this is the main reason that the Heroquest campaign makes for a poor comparison to AoA's campaign. Some significant percentage of Heroquest's backers must have been people nostalgic for the game who no longer owned it and didn't want to pay whatever the vintage sets cost on the secondary market. If they wanted to play Heroquest at all, the HasLab campaign was their only option. The same is not true in AoA's case. For most of us here, if AoA doesn't fund, we'll still be able to play Heroscape. We'll simply have missed out on an expansion.

[brak88]

Originally Posted by Hogg

There was a life sized Cookie Monster that didn't get funded too. I think that was the second Haslab project. Unicron didn't meet its goal by the initial deadline but they extended it and it made it across the line. They said they wouldn't do that again though.

Starting development on the app is a good sign the company has faith and sees something positive in the way it has been going.

I just googled the cookie monster. I had no idea they did that hahaha. I wonder why they don't show that on the list of post projects. Maybe a rights thing?

[Good Pig]

$300 Cookie Monster plush toy. What could have gone wrong?

[brak88]

Originally Posted by Good Pig

$300 Cookie Monster plush toy. What could have gone wrong?

It didn't have Kung Fu grip and karate chop action. Instant obvious fail. Stocks probably went down by half that day. Wonder what would've been the price of it was a Jim Henson level quality muppet puppet?

[nyys]

Assuming we're short. What do we think the threshold is for number of backers needed at the end for a percentage of Scapers to add an additional set to their pledge to get this thing over the hump?

For example, if we're at 6500 backers come the final 48 hours, do we think there are 1500 of those backers who will throw in another $250 to make this happen? There's definitely some number (no idea what it is) where even those who shouldn't (raises hand) probably will as a last ditch effort.

[IAmBatman]

I think *most* of the folks who are desperate enough for this to achieve to throw any amount of money at it have already maxed out their purchases.

[caps]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

I think *most* of the folks who are desperate enough for this to achieve to throw any amount of money at it have already maxed out their purchases.

I haven't. I'm probably not the only one.

[Rÿchean]

Yeah, you are not the only one.

I may add another as it gets closer. I know others here in our local area may add more as well.

[nyys]

Originally Posted by IAmBatman

I think *most* of the folks who are desperate enough for this to achieve to throw any amount of money at it have already maxed out their purchases.

Ooph, I hope that's not true. That would mean there are even fewer individual backers than I thought out there.