One element to this approach that would perhaps prove to be crucial in the early going is the fact that inXile announced its plans well ahead of time, nearly a month before the Kickstarter itself would go live. The project had already garnered the backing of the gaming community, and this ‘hearts and minds’ approach would certainly prove worthwhile for inXile in the long run. Crucially, even those that were dismissive of whether the project would reach its goal still felt that it should reach said goal, in a perfect world. The comments above, taken from the NeoGAF thread discussing the launch of the Kickstarter, sum up some of the more pessimistic or realistic voices mixed in with the more hopeful crowd.
Whilst we know now that the campaign was a massive success-even today, it ranks as the seventh most successful crowdfunding campaign for a video game-it’s important to remember that, on the face of it, the campaign looked to have a good chance of failing.
When the Kickstarter for Wasteland 2 began, it seemed to many that the lofty funding goal of $900,000 to make a sequel to a hardcore 1988 WRPG was very ambitious, if not completely unattainable. ( Click here for our Early Access review of Wasteland 2 the game.)
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