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Death Robots vs Bikini Elves? That is extreme!


So...I hope the KS server is fairly robust...it might be quite busy in about fifteen minutes.

I'll be counting down in thread title and already have two accounts poised to nab early birds (not sure if I want the $100 or $150 yet, will grab both for now and decide later).

Do we have a link yet or will the countdown page give us a link when it goes live?

I'm checking these:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=Dreadball
https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?category_id=34&sort=launch_date

4mins.

Waiting to jump on a earlybird myself, T minus 1 min ......

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dreadball-xtreme?ref=search

Backed at EB!

And now that I've bothered to read through...

Three different stretch goal tiers? Okay... Is that a new idea?

And boom in at $140 EB

Holy crap, $20k backed in the first 30 seconds.

I've jumped in for the Early Bird 1 - RAMPAGE. As there doesn't seem to be an early Bird for the Rage level.

So, I'll probably drop down to Rage later on in the campaign...

 Compel wrote:
I've jumped in for the Early Bird 1 - RAMPAGE. As there doesn't seem to be an early Bird for the Rage level.

So, I'll probably drop down to Rage later on in the campaign...

Same here.

It's b ecome quite normal for any KS to have the addons only included in pledges of 150$ plus. Not a super great change :(

Still... couldn't resist

They've done this one a bit differently, there's an early bird for FRENZY, which is at $350 for the big spenders.

Jumped in for early bird frenzy, $350. If it doesn't look like it's getting the value near the end, I'll drop it for a Rampage.

Bring on the Kickstarter rollercoaster!

Got an early bird. Now to see what I'll be getting. This has blown up quickly, though I supposed that was expected.

I certainly won't be painting my Asterians blue.

LOL.

Seems to be going okay to begin with.

 Compel wrote:
Well, the simple option would be to go reply to the thread. This is the perfect opportunity, I think.

A link to the thread might be more useful than "Mantic on Facebook", methinks..

Is it just me, or does it look like the only thing that's different between the $150 and $350 pledge levels, is that the $350 is listed as potentially getting more stretch goals?

 Yonan wrote:
Is it just me, or does it look like the only thing that's different between the $150 and $350 pledge levels, is that the $350 is listed as potentially getting more stretch goals?

Yeah, I'm not seeing a big difference yet either. I'm sure they will show more, but it seems you're kind of taking a leap of faith as it stands.

Yeah thought the same thing. Tempted to go $350 but nothing there to encourage it at the moment....

 Yonan wrote:
Is it just me, or does it look like the only thing that's different between the $150 and $350 pledge levels, is that the $350 is listed as potentially getting more stretch goals?

I guess the "majority" of addons will only be "free" for the 350$ pledge.
But they need AT LEAST 200$ of "free" addons to make it worthwhile.

Yeah, that's the only difference at the moment. $200 KS-dollars worth of stretch goals. I foresee a whole lot of $8-15 MVP models that may or may not be the same as the KS price when they hit full RRP...

Phwew, thought I was missing something hehe. I'll stay in for $350, Mantic is good at throwing bucket fulls of value at you. Just hope it doesn't end up with another backslide like Mars Attacks.

It would have been the thread titled Q&A that has loads of people writing on it... In any case, it's a bit late now, considering it happened last night.

In any case, it was a clever / sneaky move from mantic, to have loads of people going 'Well, I'm interested, only for the smaller one' to instead released two early birds, with a medium one and a HUGE one.

It's also interesting that they've doubled the startup cash, yet it looks like they're well on their way to funding it in the same amount of time Deadzone did, for half the money.

Yet, I imagine this would be the less popular game.

The Frenzy level is going to frontload this to hell.

Only 100 EB slots for the $350 frenzy, and the next 100 EB slots for it are priced at $365.

Wondering if it is going to end up as a $400 final level.

A LOT of those Frenzy EB's will have a $140 EB as well on a separate account and drop whichever one they don't want.

Well, and whole teams.

Frenzy will probably end up with all 12 teams if they all fund?

Even Rampage "only" has 2 teams to start. Striker started with all 4 Season 1 teams, I believe? No?

Oh wonderful. The only sponsor I'd want is the Kickstarter exclusive.

The KS are getting more moderat. That's a fact. In the early days, you got like 93849238423% of stuff for free. Now the companies are a bit more... careful what they give away.

 Compel wrote:
It would have been the thread titled Q&A that has loads of people writing on it... In any case, it's a bit late now, considering it happened last night.
In any case, it was a clever / sneaky move from mantic, to have loads of people going 'Well, I'm interested, only for the smaller one' to instead released two early birds, with a medium one and a HUGE one.

It's also interesting that they've doubled the startup cash, yet it looks like they're well on their way to funding it in the same amount of time Deadzone did, for half the money.
Yet, I imagine this would be the less popular game.

They don't have a fake target this time.

Great thing about kickstarters launching at this time is it's our evening, we can grab an EB then go to sleep and wake up to a bunch of stretch goals hopefully ; p

10k to go, still going up nicely.

RoninXiC wrote:
The KS are getting more moderat. That's a fact. In the early days, you got like 93849238423% of stuff for free. Now the companies are a bit more... careful what they give away.

Not a problem. Makes it easier to pass and not get carried away, and easier for the creators to afford the eventual package and not get carried away with too many stretch goals.

I'm not so keen on the fact that the "sweet spot" for boardgames has apparently shifted to $150+ postage. That in itself is a bit insane, and speaks to the excitement/frenzy that KS seems to instill in people. Before the inevitable 8-12 month wait for fulfilment, plus another 6-12-18 months for actual final fulfilment.

I guess I should threaten to pull my pledge if they don't finish fixing up my initial DB fulfilment before this one finishes?