Well apparently one of the people working in Obsidian is part of the advisory board for Fig, so makes sense they went with that.
Edit: In the about page of fig one of the CEO of Obsidian is in the board.
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tbh I'd personally have doubts fu nding something on platform belonging to company doing crowdfunding. I get that crowdfunding is always a risk, but crowdfunding project on platform belonging to developer of said project is double risk. If you crowdfund on outside platform, first thing your project must fit criteria of said platform, it must be in some way secutre etc, on your own platform there would be no such o0bligation. If project turns out to be a scam you get refund, on such platfor you would not. Etc. I'm not sayig it's the case here, I don't think Obsidian guys to be scammers or anything, just saying it's kinda morally wrong in general to do things this way, no matter of it's done by studio I trust or not.
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As far as I'm aware, it's a 'by game developers, for game developers' platform, so an advisory board including invested game developers is necessary to the site's functioning. Being on an advisory board- that is, in a role to advise- doesn't necessarily mean influence over the direct control of the company.
Rather, it'd likely make the platform seem more legitimate, to other developers interested in using it.
Given the reputation of those currently involved in the company, it's similarly more trustworthy in reliability of releasing games than Kickstarters usually are. As such, so far there's really not any reason for backers to be concerned over the site, either.
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They are one of the creators of FIG, thats why xD
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The interest in this Kickstarter (errr, Fig sounds weird, doesn't it?) on SG is massive. I'm impressed.
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well, ppl look at names they know, Fig is not name anyone know, unlike kickstarter ;p If you write "Kickstarter of XYZ" even ppl who don't know XYZ will at lesast know Kickstarter ;)
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Fig is not name anyone know,
I know it. :P
From a SG user perspective, I actually think it's more surprising that you don't, given what it's already been used for; Consortium: The Tower, Wasteland 3, and Psychonauts 2 all got good exposure on SG when they hit Fig, as I recall. Consortium certainly did, given the free copies of Consortium that were being given away as part of that promotion.
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Another time-sink, oh my... thank you for the info, Obsidian had me hooked after their first release KOTOR II and never failed to deliver since then IMO.
BTW I really had to think twice after reading 'capmapign' ;).
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tbh as much as I loved KOTOR 2 it was a total buggy mess ;p But I totally loved Pillars 1 so they got me hooked as well :D:
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Well, in less than 2 days is almost fully funded (93% of 1.100.000$ right now)... amazing :V
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whoa looks like it's funded already so it was wise move for them :)
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well, 1st Pillars turn out to be a great game and massive hit, so no doubt it was bound to be funded ;p If they judst asked for money on FB they'd probably get funded ;p
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It's Obsidian. :P
Obsidian (AKA Black Isle/Troika) has such a long history of making exceptional albeit also exceptionally buggy :P games that they could stand on a street corner, and so long as they publicized it, people'd travel over to give them money. :P
There's a lot of costs related to gathering funds, and a streamlined site designed to manage such details cuts a lot of those costs down. Given the good reputation Fig has so far (while KS's has always been a bit sketchy), and the likelihood that Fig takes only a very small cut, it's no doubt a very good option for them.
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Hm, I backed the first part and did not regret it. Well any further thinkings fail at the point that I can't pay with Paypal anyways. So I don't have to worry about giving away my last money there -_-
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First one was meh, so I'm not having a slight interest in next one :P
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quite a jump there from 5 to 35 bucks you dont even get the first game xd, oh well, glad they did it, im still to play the first one.
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I'm so excited. And I just can't hide it.
I hope it runs better than the first one. It runs terribly for something so simple.
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hmm, I have a pretty old computer (i5 650, HD6850, 12 gig RAM) but had no problems running 1st one at all... but it says nothing, maybe I got lucky or it had problems with certain hardware I don't have ;p
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I only have a laptop. A10-5750M and 8gb ram. I think your's is probably a bit ahead of mine.
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https://www.fig.co/campaigns/deadfire
Kinda strange they put it on some niche crowdfunding platform, but maybe the case they take less % than KS and Pillars gonna get funded anyway wherever they put it after success of first installment.
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