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    Quote Originally Posted by tonberrian View Post
    What is the top funding for a project? Aside from Double Fine, I mean.
    Double Fine's project is just shy of $2,000,000.

    EDIT: Whoops. I think the (soon to be) Number 2 is at like $1.3 million or so. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say we're not overtaking them.
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    I participated ^^
    A lot of people did. Some people spent more money than you did. But not very many had to spend that much effort. Congratulations. Welcome to the club, which ought to present you with a badge of honor !

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    If all sense and reason is abandoned and we somehow raise the I-don't-know-like-$200,000 to reprint even that book
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    Quote Originally Posted by tonberrian View Post
    What is the top funding for a project? Aside from Double Fine, I mean.
    It's an iPhone dock which brought in $1,464,706.

    Yeah, we're not topping that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tonberrian View Post
    What is the top funding for a project? Aside from Double Fine, I mean.
    The most funded for each category of project are listed here. The one that raised the most money of all appears to be this one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baphomet View Post
    Man, the one thing holding me back from pledging more was that Rich said he wasn't going to use the funds for himself. Now that that's off the table, I doubled it. Why didn't he do that sooner?
    He's not really using the funds for himself - he's creating a general fund for his business. Which will result in him having less out of pocket expenses (and therefore more money to spend on personal stuff) in the future, but so is us paying for print runs which will leave him with excess stock of his products, even if we get a book out of the deal.

    A lot of the preexisting prize's values were a result of forced scarcity / donor charity - I doubt the crayon drawings will require anywhere near $250 in materials, labor, and shipping. People were willing to pay that much because 1. They wanted the books reprinted 2. There was a limited supply and 3. Rich has put nearly a decade into the free product of the webcomic. One could argue that there is a limited supply of Rich's labor available for projects like this because people's future willingness to pay for stuff like this is dependent on an at least semi-active web comic, but the exclusivity also plays a role, particularly for the cameo.

    What is true is that Rich will probably see more profit on the money after 850K mark. While some of the money sounds like it will go towards tech upgrades for Rich, which don't necessarily yield a lot of immediate profit, if he uses some of it to print book 5, for example, the yield on that will be huge. I'm not sure of the exact numbers involved, but I'm pretty sure the printing costs have in the past been well over half the price of the book, so if Rich gets free printing on book 5 out of this, the amount of money he will make off each book will more than double.

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    They got the last half-million in about three days, so you never know...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yendor View Post
    They got the last half-million in about three days, so you never know...
    No. No way. It is ABSOLUTELY not going to happen. We are just BARELY going to break $1m, and that is it.




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    There's an outside shot at hitting 2000% funding, which would require about $3612 per hour from here on out.

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    I upped my pledge. Happy to help fund Rich's project. He's entertained me a day or two a week, not counting the great forum discussions (and the ENTIRE reason I started playing D&D in the first place!!) since 2007. :)
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    Ladies and Gentlemen.

    This has been an amazing ride and I'm sure it will just go completely Knurd by the time we're done.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Troll Brau View Post
    Ladies and Gentleman.

    This has been an amazing ride and I'm sure it will just go completely Knurd by the time we're done.
    Well, if we abandoned sanity around $200,000, then $800,000 later will certainly take us around to the other side.

    Better go get some Bearhugger's. We overdosed on Klatchian coffee it seems.

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    This really is an interesting psychological study. People are getting amped and throwing in another 5-10+ dollars, I'm sure. Hell, that's what I did. We take pride in Rich's webcomic and want to see it succeed (at the very least, smash through $1M!) and for our average pledge to be somewhere north of $80, most of our backers are putting up a lot of cash to see this work!

    Whether he meant to or not, this conveniently ends on a weekend, where backers may be more prone to sipping on a glass of wine or beer (or three) right when the hype is hitting its climax. Rich may be the beneficiary of some "drunken shopping".

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    Quote Originally Posted by MoonCat View Post
    Well, if we abandoned sanity around $200,000, then $800,000 later will certainly take us around to the other side.

    Better go get some Bearhugger's. We overdosed on Klatchian coffee it seems.

    (Yes, I too read Terry Pratchett. We know what we're talking about.)
    It's gonna take a heck of a lot of proper mountain-brewed scumble to get us anywhere near sober again, to be honest. Maybe even a couple of Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Great Dane View Post
    This really is an interesting psychological study. People are getting amped and throwing in another 5-10+ dollars, I'm sure. Hell, that's what I did. We take pride in Rich's webcomic and want to see it succeed (at the very least, smash through $1M!) and for our average pledge to be somewhere north of $80, most of our backers are putting up a lot of cash to see this work!

    Whether he meant to or not, this conveniently ends on a weekend, where backers may be more prone to sipping on a glass of wine or beer (or three) right when the hype is hitting its climax. Rich may be the beneficiary of some "drunken shopping".
    I am literally going to be able to stay updated to the minute UNTIL th last hour. Worst timing possible for me. Frigging school.

    Quote Originally Posted by Goosefeather View Post
    It's gonna take a heck of a lot of proper mountain-brewed scumble to get us anywhere near sober again, to be honest. Maybe even a couple of Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Goosefeather View Post
    It's gonna take a heck of a lot of proper mountain-brewed scumble to get us anywhere near sober again, to be honest. Maybe even a couple of Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MoonCat View Post
    Well, if we abandoned sanity around
    I don't understand the folks with the "this is insane" reactions. The average pledge is around $80 for 11,000+ fans, big deal. Concerts to see musicians play for 2 hours can cost that much and draw an equal number of fans. There's a rule of thumb that says only 10% of your fans will help in pledge drive. Did so many people not think OotS had over 100,000 fans?

    Also, most kickstarter drives have a heavy few first days, a huge lull in the middle, and then a big push at the end. Most kickstarter drive owners do not keep adding swag every other day like Rich did. That is what has driven the steady momentum.

    There's nothing insane about this. It is just a good product matched to a well run drive. I'd be curious how many future KS drives don't have new swag offerings made in the weeks after the original posting based on how effective it was for this drive.

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    I don't understand the folks with the "this is insane" reactions. The average pledge is around $80 for 11,000+ fans, big deal. Concerts to see musicians play for 2 hours can cost that much and draw an equal number of fans. There's a rule of thumb that says only 10% of your fans will help in pledge drive. Did so many people not think OotS had over 100,000 fans?

    Also, most kickstarter drives have a heavy few first days, a huge lull in the middle, and then a big push at the end. Most kickstarter drive owners do not keep adding swag every other day like Rich did. That is what has driven the steady momentum.

    There's nothing insane about this. It is just a good product matched to a well run drive. I'd be curious how many future KS drives don't have new swag offerings made in the weeks after the original posting based on how effective it was for this drive.
    I'm not doubting that Rich has done a damn fine job at running a consistently-successful drive. If you were able to catch the Excel spreadsheet being updated, you'll see the average donation per backer has gone up and up throughout the duration! To me, though, 11,000+ people pledging $80 is a BFD, especially for a webcomic!

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    Everyone is going hogwild with the big numbers, figure I'd post the small end.

    A $6.27 increase from each backer puts us over the $1mil mark.
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    Patient Whole Story Signeds are going fast. 5 left.

    3...

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    And gone.

    Grats to the lucky and the quick!
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    Got me a $300 ;) (the comments section on Kickstarter's a fun place! You might recognize me)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smolder View Post
    Patient Whole Story Signeds are going fast. 5 left.

    3...

    2..

    1..

    And gone.

    Grats to the lucky and the quick!
    They lasted less than 12 minutes, apparently. Full on feeding frenzy goin' on right now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Smolder View Post
    Patient Whole Story Signeds are going fast. 5 left.
    They lasted less than 12 minutes, apparently. Full on feeding frenzy goin' on right now.
    I started typing that when I saw that Rich had posted 15. By the time I finished the first sentence, it was down to 7.
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    *does some back of the enevlope calculations*
    *redoes them because he doesn't quite believe them*

    Ya know, I won't be that surprised if this thing finishes north of 1.1M when all is said and done. And if things go really crazy, and it doesn't relatively quiet down "overnight" too much, I wouldn't be shocked to see it slip over 1.2M.
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    Still well over 2 days to go, and less than 70k left. I'd say that 1,000,000 is definitely a happening thing.

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    Almost there...

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    I just went from $78 for the two books that I don't have yet to $115 +30 +4 for the big box of the game and a book plus the other book I need plus the patch. And there is a good chance I will add in another $15 for the art print before it is all over. This drive has been so much fun to watch and participate in.
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    One thing great about this kickstarter are all the people new to the forum.
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