http://www.kicktraq.com provides these really cool charts of progress by day. Let's see if I can include them. For comparison's sake, I'm going to include the one from the EE/IR Kickstarter, too.
Thats pretty awesome - But it looks like were getting toward the bottom of the barrel.
What that means?
GET OUT THERE!!! Link the kickstarter everywhere you can! Throw it up on any forums you visit where people might even remotely be interested! Show off! bring out the love!
And, throw up your pledge by 5-10 bucks :P
*Edit* -- Can you get the trackers for Rook City? I know popularity is different, but that would be another 'Just Expansion' which would probably be a little better comparison for how Shattered timelines may flow. (maybe)
Didn't look like there was any info for Rook City. See for yourself -- go to Kicktraq, search for Rook City, and then use the tabs to try to get the other tables of info.
I already added $40 to help with someone's shipping fees. I wish more people would help, though. The first day surge was great, but now it's just depressing.
If they gave more information about the game maybe they would get more supporters. When we got the stretch goal of the oversized villain cards, and not a single clue at any of the villains. Lets be honest, that motivates people to support a project. If we reach the new villain deck stretch goal and we get a picture of a [???] then it will be depresing.
There is an entire month, and while its awesome to see all this stuff right away, they do want to keep the love going as long as posisble. They already stated that the new stuff will be announced every tuesday and thursday. The new villians, the new environments, and the new heroes will all make their debut in a proper time. When those come along hopefully there will be some mini surges.
The numbers are clear, I think : the fans have already backed the game (total number of pledgers right now is roughly equivalent to Infernal Relics final backers total). Most of them already had everything. New funders will have to be attracted, if we want to see the bonus hero deck :)
More updates (even if they only show minions or individual cards, or simply art, like the tooth faery) could help.
I'd just like to point out that based on the majority of kickstarters I've been a part of, the funding followed a fairly specific pattern. It would have a huge surge in the first 2-3 days as loyal/excited fans joined on. Then it would have very slow growth for the whole rest of the project until the last 48 hours. The primary reason for this is that when you "star" a project on kickstarter, you get a reminder 48 hours before it's over. Many people (often including myself) like to wait until the last 48 hours because by then you have a pretty good idea what stretch rewards there will be, so you have a better idea overall of what (in total) you'll be getting. I've seen a few projects literally double in the last 48 hours.
As a result, I wouldn't be too depressed that things have slowed down. I'm not saying don't try to recruit more people; I've been posting on facebook and sponsoring international shippers myself. I'm just saying, don't be too upset if we don't see MAJOR growth again until the last 48 hours.
it hit $60K just now. I think/hope the promo villain might help generate some more love. But overall I do agree with broccoli that we probably won't see major surges until the end.
Don't know if you guys have noticed, but weekends are the slowest days. So expect pledges to be up in the coming 5 days. I predict we'll get the next stretch goal on Wednesday.
I think I've finally convinced at least two of my friends to make some hefty donations to the Kickstarter. I lured them in with the prospect of them furthering our efforts of stretch rewards that they will get too. Hooray!
I have been a fan of the game since the first edition of SotM. I also own both of the previous expansions, Unity, Ambuscade, and all of the Hero and Villain Promos that have previously come out. I really don't see the need for the larger villain cards or a play mat, and can't justify another 40 dollars for the EE.
I was hoping to be excited by the new stretch goal decks, but for some reason I was underwhelmed by the first revealed deck (The Assistant). I'm not sure why it is the case, as being a tad silly isn't the reason. After all one of the villains I submitted was from "Freedom Five Holiday Special" and had Santa as her Nemesis.
I see getting just the box for EE is no longer even an option in the store anymore, so I doubt that would be added to the al-a-carte options. So it really is up to the future reveals to get me on the bandwagon. Otherwise, I'll probably just wait for it to be carried by my local brick and mortar store.
17 backers in the day though, which is more than the lowest daily backers from the last kickstarter (16). Average pledge is lower this time around because it's not EE, so there aren't as many people re-buying stuff they already have.
there is usually a surge at the end of kickstarters - we can hope someone like Penny Arcade or CAD or other gaming oriented web comics with HUGE followings tweets or posts about the last day of the expansion, and it skyrockets. - that is not out of reach (perhaps those around here who may be semi close with such figures extend a hand to ask for linkage? :) )
Every KS that's gaming related gets people suggesting asking Penny Arcade for a shout out at some point - all it does is leads to people spamming them and they don't give said shout-out. Probably reduces the chance that they do something like that in truth.
100k should be reached pretty easily, but I'm not sure how much higher the pledges will end. Depending on the surge it could end right around where the EE KS did, or reach up to $150k or so. Bit tough to compare to the EE KS since it was an upgrade + expansion everyone could spend money on, compared to much lower amounts for most people on this KS, so even matching the 111k from that KS would be a huge success IMO.
