I just joined the community recently.
I read about Fractured in a news article the very first time 3 days ago and did not know anything about it.
But as an old fan of "Ultima Online", they drew my attention quickly. I did not play MMOs since then and was or am somehow in the mood to dig into one again.
However, I understand why people are worrying about the pledges so far.
Honestly, I wonder reading some posts on this forum and am suprised that Fractured's own community struggles to pledge in it.
If they do not do it how will others? There are way too less people out there likewise me who just stumbled over this game unpurposely and are just missing old "Ultima Online"-times and wanna give it a chance now again.
This project is ambitious but obviously not convincing many other people yet. And there I see a failure.
Most people decide within seconds, and therefore, the very first impression is the most valueable one. If you did not convince the very first time, it will get more and more difficult to do later. Maybe the devs were too excited to kick this off too early who knows?
But "only" 20-30 more pledges (I think) in 2 more days, is not much I believe.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound pesimistic, there is still time to achieve their goal. But I must agree, I expected more after I joined kickstarter and your community, especially afteer I found out how big this community already is.
But hope and trust still lasts.