@kralith maybe you are right it is not too early, I am.just trying to figure out what could have been done better. I truly hope KS will work (thx to you ).

Maybe you are right and it is not too early, but in my opinion it's still is, maybe in the other KS you are talking about, backers had more informations on gameplay or whatever.

I just think those are the problems because that what I heard the most around me.

I agree KS are not made to let people play early but to make them help devs, but I think as so many games use alphas and betas in the wrong way, just too make money on a not finished but still enjoyable game, and take excuses for all the bugs. I am really glad Fractured doesn't tend to follow this path, but that is the reason why I am not so fan of the early crossfundings and the alpha testers paying to be in the alpha. But it is hard not to do it this way nowadays...

@jetah I agree, but that is for me one more reason why the campaign should have been in 2 parts. You can't truly expect a lots of people to pay +1000$ for testing.

If you look at the KS, 11 peoples are paying for 35% of the total expected amount. In my opinion what they needed right know was finding this backers through other way, or with a KS special for expensive pack. It does look more like small (really small) investors than real KS backers.

If you look at the quantity of early birds remaining, you can see they were expecting a lot more people ready to pay small prices (100$ or less), but I truly think they had to much faith in peoples. People are ready to invest a bit of time in the forum everyday, but money for a project that will not be ready to play in like 3 years, I don't think so.

@00 yeah I really hope it won't fail, the title was a bit extreme but I did it on purpose.

I also agree with other, it is also our job to talk people into it, but as I said, most of the peoples (my friends included) won't put +200$ in a game, neither 25$ to play in 2 years. I already baited them in a lot of games (some failed... Like cube World, even if I still have a little bit of hope deep inside), but this one is too far away for them.

Also keep in mind that 85% in 70% of the time is still risky on a KS, the major part of the funding is made at the beginning of the campaign.

Just wanted to discuss what they may have done differently, or even may do in the future, to maybe help them and others succed. Even I would really like to work in video games, mostly MMOs after my current job, and I think it is important for everyone to see what was good and bad in their campaign.

Most of the time, on projects that are already known, Kickstarters just goes 1000% the initial funding.

But for fractured, it is at 80% 6 days before the end, and I am not sure it will go all the way. There is even a stat saying 99% of the project that goes above 80% are funded.

What do you think is the problem on fractured that may make them part of the 1% left ?

In my opinion this Kickstarter is either too expensive or too early.

I am part of the people thinking that nowadays games abused of the alpha and beta system (even if I will always be one of the first to buy an alpha access on an interesting game), and I like that fractured triee to make it very elitist, using very high prices, because alpha should be for people that invest a lot of themselves in the game, either with money or time.

But I really think you can't say on a Kickstarter that people need to pay 200$ if they want to play in less than 2 years. Most of peoples won't pay this much for a game.

The other option, is to pay for beta and wait. But it is a very long time to wait. Most of gamers won't pay 25$ to buy a game they can play in 2 years. Too dangerous, what if then you don't play anymore, or you have no time to play an MMO, or even you just don't like the game that much. Of course people will wait, even if then they need to pay double price.

I think they should have done the Kickstarter in 2 times :

1. Expensive offers over 200$ where you can play in less than 2 years. Passionate people would still have buy it and it would have been enough to pay for a some development time.
2. Later a 2nd phase selling mostly small offers for less passionate peoples. Maybe the beta wouldn't feel so far and more people would have buy it.

I still really hope the Kickstarter will work, the game seems really awesome and I would love to know what you guys think about this subject.

This could be interesting.

What I mean by that is will there be cities accessible for them, will all the cities be accessible for them, and/or will there be cities only accessible for them ?

Thank you for all the answers, I'll take a look at the thread.

Can you restat as you change your spells ? How does the stat system works ?

@finland Thx for the reply, hope we will get at least an estimation

Do we have any information about when will be the different alpha and beta phase ?
Even if it changes, I think poeple may be more interested in the packs if they only had an idea.