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Poision Envy

2015-05-01 06:57:38 am

Club 27 Goals

Pff, can't expect me to read more than a page back.

arkarian

2015-05-01 03:56:56 pm

red chamber dream

what's better than contributing to a kickstarter for a cool looking game?

not contributing and seeing it get funded in 40 minutes by a whole lot of nice folks :D

Opium

2015-05-01 04:27:44 pm

Already?

Quietus

2015-05-01 04:56:52 pm

Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!

Yeah, I read that it reached its goal within two hours. aiwebs_004

Opium

2015-05-01 04:57:13 pm

omg they're going to break a million. If you donate $23, you get a download code for the game, so why not.

arkarian

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arkarian: 2015-05-01 05:11:11 pm

2015-05-01 05:11:03 pm

red chamber dream

Quote from Quietus:

Yeah, I read that it reached its goal within two hours. aiwebs_004

it reached it within 40 minutes and tripled within 2 hours. i'm so hyped for this game.

i don't do business with kickstarter though, so i'm not going to "donate".

Opium

2015-05-01 05:13:07 pm

Wouldn't you essentially be buying the game for your $23-$24 donation? Are you afraid they wouldn't deliver, or did you have a bad experience?

(I wonder why the USD amount for the download code changed from $23 to $24 in the past 10 minutes. Weird.)

arkarian

2015-05-01 05:22:31 pm

red chamber dream

i just don't see why i would pay for anything in advance. it's going to cost the same amount when it's released and i'll be able to download it immediately.

contributing to kickstarter is stupid.

Opium

2015-05-01 05:23:50 pm

I didn't realize that they had already announced how much it would cost at release.

arkarian

2015-05-01 05:25:10 pm

red chamber dream

it's never much more than the kickstarter price, it's a pretty safe assumption it'll be like $25

arkarian

2015-05-01 05:25:29 pm

red chamber dream

but yeah i'm not just going to give someone my money with absolutely no guarantee they'll give me anything in return

Opium

2015-05-01 05:26:28 pm

That's why I'm not doing it. How do I know it's not all an elaborate scam?

arkarian

2015-05-01 05:26:53 pm

red chamber dream

precisely

i mean i'm sure this game isn't a scam, but i'm still not going to give them my money before they've even started making a product

arkarian

2015-05-01 05:27:30 pm

red chamber dream

if i'm going to put my money into something i want it to be an investment, not just a long ass preorder

arkarian

2015-05-01 05:27:41 pm

red chamber dream

i could be getting interest on that money before the game is released

Opium

2015-05-01 05:29:52 pm

5 months of interest on $24 is not something worth considering imo

Opium

2015-05-01 05:30:40 pm

But I thought the game would cost more then $25, otherwise there's not as much incentive to donate.

arkarian

2015-05-01 05:30:40 pm

red chamber dream

why would it not be? interest is interest

arkarian

2015-05-01 05:32:28 pm

red chamber dream

if you had ten thousand 20 dollar bills, you would definitely want the interest on each of them

but by your logic you could keep taking away one $20 bill at a time and it wouldn't matter

shit adds up

Opium

2015-05-01 05:32:33 pm

lol that totally sounds like something my grandpa would yell at me about. Interest is interest, but if the amount is insignificant then who cares.

arkarian

2015-05-01 05:32:56 pm

red chamber dream

your grandpa sounds smart >_>

Opium

2015-05-01 05:33:30 pm

Dude, we're talking about $24 over 5 months.

arkarian

2015-05-01 05:34:21 pm

red chamber dream

no we're not. we're talking about the concept of interest. let's say there were 200 games on kickstarter that i wanted to contribute to. would you still say the interest is insignifcant?

Opium

2015-05-01 05:34:41 pm

If the game sells for $25, which is one dollar more than $24, then that's the smarter thing to do.

arkarian

2015-05-01 05:34:43 pm

red chamber dream

now instead of it being 200 games, think of it as just "everything you buy"