It's a good thing, but it's also open to abuse. I've been wary about this whole Kickstarter thing until now, because you're essentially paying for something that doesn't even exist yet. Normally I don't even pre-order stuff.

I have enough faith in this game to risk my money on it, but in most cases buying something before you even know if it's going to be any good doesn't sit well with me. If I didn't feel like I had a reason to trust the people involved I'd be too afraid I'd end up paying for a crappy game.

Still, you're right. Projects like this would normally be impossible for most teams without a big publisher breathing down their neck, and getting the fans involved directly is certainly a big step in the right direction. Especially when you think about all those developers that have been chewed up and spat out by their publisher.

Yeah that's just sad. Greedy people often whine the loudest.

While I'd prefer everyone to post their links before the end of the giveaways, I can understand why some people would rather keep their profile private.

In fact, I'm going to add a new rule for those people.

What percentage of the 96 thousand members of SG do you think put money into the Kickstarter?
1% is still a thousand people. How is he supposed to manage verifying profiles and matching account names for those thousand people and then email them all the private giveaway link? Just seems unreasonable.

If the moderation staff decides these rules are not ok, then delete the giveaways and move on.

This.

Now, I know its your games to give away, but IMO if your going to make these Requirements, you should stick to it the whole time. If the entry amount is low, then its low. If you want lots of entry's, then make it open to everyone (Can still be private and posted on the forum). But this way, at least you may have gotten a bit of more money put toward the Kickstarter project.

Anyways, Thanks for the giveaway! Going to pass on this because I don't want to give money to the project (Never even heard of the game before) and have this turned out to be public in the end.

The logic is that there are five giveaways, and it wasn't my intention that all five would be won by one guy.

Still, now that there are plenty of entires (and even some valid ones), I suppose that line is no longer necessary.

I doubt it'd reach 3000 people, since even public giveaways don't reach that amount very often.

At first I wanted the giveaways to run just as long as the Kickstarted drive (31 days from now), but I figured that would be excessive.

You totally missed the point here

"I´m not asking for donations, I´m giving thanks to the people who´ve made this possible. If I wanted to ask for donations I wouldn´t have waited until the goal had already been made. There´s a difference between asking for money and offering thanks for something people already did on their own"

I understand your point, but I formulated the rule that way for the people who posted in this thread that they were planning on donating anyway but didn't have the money yet. I understand that this is a bit of a grey area in the eyes of some people, but I believe the asking for money bit is to prevent people from making a profit off of their giveaways. Otherwise, groups like the S.Gifts Giveaway Fund would be illegal as well. Since I don't make a single dime off of this it is, in my eyes at least, all right. If someone in charge should disagree I won't protest against it, but since this neither thread nor the giveaways themselves have been removed, I'm thinking they're ok with it.

wow. just wow

Maybe because he wants to create some attention around the Kickstarter Wasteland project. But sadly it's impossible, because SOME people has to ruin it and act like assholes.

Yea I think this does go against some rule?

"Hello. I'm an internet tough guy and you can all suck my dick."

This is why we cannot have nice things.

How is he breaking the rules?

You sound like a tool, here.

Ya. This is pretty much the only thing we can do now, as it is pretty much at a standstill.

While I do like the idea of this, it is ruined by people like GargoyleBG, and others who ignore/don't read the rules of the Giveaway.

I think the "Do not ask for any sort of payment/exchange in order to enter a giveaway. This applies to group rules as well." rule more or less apply's to forcing people to give money to the giveaway creator, their family, or their friends. At least, IMO It should be if it isn't.

especially for a private giveaway :(

You know what, I might actually keep that $1 pledge.

I prefer quick giveaways, but you made some really good ones to compensate for their duration.

He wasn't asking you to pay to enter. -_____-