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Post by heggers on May 4, 2015 19:23:04 GMT
Does anyone else remember seeing this survey being sent out? Given as only 50 odd responded it clearly wasn't put anywhere the backers could visibly see it... Par for the course I guess so far as 22Cons "excellent" community team goes...  |
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Post by Lord Ba'al on May 4, 2015 19:57:30 GMT
Nope, never seen or heard of it. But I'm not a valkyrie or above backer.
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Post by Crumpy Six on May 4, 2015 21:05:21 GMT
I'm not a backer, but I don't see why the distinction is important. Can't it be both? I don't see that either concept is mutually exclusive from the other.
Mind you, given that 22Cans are likely to want to cheap out on this book as much as possible it will probably make a big difference. Minimum number of pages, minimum quality of paper, probably a lot smaller than anyone had in mind. I'm thinking of the embarrassingly awful 'signed' t-shirts that turned out to be printed junk. If they only have about 12 pages to play with, knowing whether to add in concept art or yet more photographs of the team hanging around the office is important.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2015 0:01:14 GMT
If they only have about 12 pages to play with, knowing whether to add in concept art or yet more photographs of the team hanging around the office is important. The backers should have concept art all the way then, because anyone could see tons of images and videos of 22cans trying to look useful over the last couple of years, while the backers of anyone probably know the whole mess around the development and feel it more acutely than anyone train elephantspotting this wreck. Better to offer the backers something exclusive as an actual thank you, than something that would potentially resemble a children's story book about how to fail game development so absurdly. ------------------------- So, knowing which one would make sense and how low they've already been aiming at for PR standards...guess which one is easy money on what 22cans will pick? |
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Art book
May 5, 2015 5:23:45 GMT
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Post by Lord Ba'al on May 5, 2015 5:23:45 GMT
I think the book is supposed to be a backer only reward. And only for the higher tiers. But you never know, they might try to put them up for sale. In which case the price point would probably either be ridiculously high or far too low to have justified what the higher tier backers have paid for it. How many do you think they would be able to sell anyway?
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Post by Crumpy Six on May 5, 2015 7:16:26 GMT
Looks like they'll need to do a print run of about 200 in order to satisfy the backer obligations. Also I hope everyone at 22Cans has got their pens ready, because the Kickstarter reward promises that it will have been signed by "anyone and everyone at 22Cans". Which almost definitely means more printed signatures, yay  Which also means EVERYONE who gets a copy will have it 'signed' by everyone at 22Cans, since they aren't going to want to pay to have two different editions made up, one with signatures and one without. Besides which, "everyone and anyone" at 22Cans is actually not really the team who made Godus. Several of the key players have left the studio already and most of those who remain are now working on a new project and couldn't give less of a shit about Godus. There is one group of people who are almost gauranteed to buy the book though, and that's the mobile players. Those guys will apparently spend money on anything. |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2015 7:35:54 GMT
Looks like they'll need to do a print run of about 200 in order to satisfy the backer obligations. Also I hope everyone at 22Cans has got their pens ready, because the Kickstarter reward promises that it will have been signed by "anyone and everyone at 22Cans". Which almost definitely means more printed signatures, yay Which also means EVERYONE who gets a copy will have it 'signed' by everyone at 22Cans, since they aren't going to want to pay to have two different editions made up, one with signatures and one without. Besides which, "everyone and anyone" at 22Cans is actually not really the team who made Godus. Several of the key players have left the studio already and most of those who remain are now working on a new project and couldn't give less of a shit about Godus. There is one group of people who are almost gauranteed to buy the book though, and that's the mobile players. Those guys will apparently spend money on anything.
I am not sure that most of the mobile players are that keen on buying an artbook. But the art isn't the worst part of the game. I mean it's a better investment to buy the artbook than buying the game (call it invest to read/look, or something like that). I wouldn't buy it anyway. Even with my printed artwork i am constantly torn between "hang it to the wall" or "bury it somewhere in the cellar". The art looks nice but, it reminds my of the game and the printed signatures make me angry. So if i were a valkyrie backer i would beg for an art book without signatures. But i think we are all aware of the fact that they will do it the cheapest way - i suppose a few artworks, some pics of the team and the scanned signatures printed on the book. I am sure they have the old scans on their hdd.
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Post by heggers on May 5, 2015 8:23:21 GMT
Looks like they'll need to do a print run of about 200 in order to satisfy the backer obligations. Also I hope everyone at 22Cans has got their pens ready, because the Kickstarter reward promises that it will have been signed by "anyone and everyone at 22Cans". Which almost definitely means more printed signatures, yay Which also means EVERYONE who gets a copy will have it 'signed' by everyone at 22Cans, since they aren't going to want to pay to have two different editions made up, one with signatures and one without. Besides which, "everyone and anyone" at 22Cans is actually not really the team who made Godus. Several of the key players have left the studio already and most of those who remain are now working on a new project and couldn't give less of a shit about Godus. There is one group of people who are almost gauranteed to buy the book though, and that's the mobile players. Those guys will apparently spend money on anything. They've probably got scanned in signatures from each and every mug who has worked for 22Cons on file from when they produced those crappy t-shirts. It'll likely just be a drag and drop onto a sheet that is printed to the inside front cover. |
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Which also means EVERYONE who gets a copy will have it 'signed' by everyone at 22Cans, since they aren't going to want to pay to have two different editions made up, one with signatures and one without.
