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General discussion (archive)Double Fine EPIC FAIL at budget management(570 posts)(570 posts)
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Posted July 02, 2013
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Crosmando: Actually, I'm not a DF backer. I copypasted this from another board I frequent, where it was posted.
I hope you stub two toes.
Posted July 02, 2013
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TheJoe: It's a really rotten thing to copy verbatim backer's only updates by the way. I hope you stub your toe this week.
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Crosmando: Actually, I'm not a DF backer. I copypasted this from another board I frequent, where it was posted.
Were you against this Kickstarter from the beginning?
Posted July 02, 2013
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Tranquil.Suit: By the way, it's not 3.2 mil. A good chunk of it was spent on all the kickstarter bonuses and whatnot. Plus another chunk on the filming project.

Don't quote me on this, but I think it's only like 2.4 mi
I think the point is, they got well over what they budgeted for, ran out of money, asked for more, went hib etc to get more and now this lol.
Posted July 02, 2013
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Tranquil.Suit: Trying to think of a pun with "budgetting failure" and "Double Fine".
That's easy. Double Fund
Post edited July 02, 2013 by nightrunner227
Posted July 02, 2013
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Elmofongo: Were you against this Kickstarter from the beginning?
Nope, I wasn't even really aware of KS back when this was going. And I'm a fan of LucasArts adventure games so I guess it would of been my thing.

EDIT: Didn't like how the Massive Chalice campaign was run though.

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TheJoe: I hope you stub two toes.
Did I do something to offend you? It's just information.
Post edited July 02, 2013 by Crosmando
Posted July 02, 2013
What game are we talking about here?!? the game was never mentioned!?!?
Posted July 02, 2013
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fr33kSh0w2012: What game are we talking about here?!? the game was never mentioned!?!?
We are talking about Broken Age FKA Reds FKA Double Fine Adventure.
Posted July 02, 2013
Not to be too much of a DF apologist. But their budget fell in that zone. You know what I mean, not enough for AAA production value, but too much for indie. Especially to the average reader, they see 3.2mil and think that's an insane amount of money. Given how successful the kickstarter was, everyone (including themselves) expected high production value from them.

That said, Tim has had enough experience in this biz not to make such errors.
Post edited July 02, 2013 by Tranquil.Suit
Posted July 02, 2013
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Tranquil.Suit: To be fair, if you gave Tim an infinite amount of money, he would make one hell of an adventure game.
No, he'd probably still need twice as much money to actually finish it. ;)

Let's face it: Some devs can't perform without a publisher looking over their shoulder and giving them heat. To be able to handle freedom you need discipline.
Posted July 02, 2013
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Crosmando: Did I do something to offend you? It's just information.
No you just did a horrible thing by posting a statement which, at the top of the original statement, says "for backers-only". The reason those updates are private is because they contain information only for backers. Otherwise they wouldn't be backers-only.

You might as well just give us all the documentary.
Posted July 02, 2013
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xy2345: To be able to handle freedom you need discipline.
WOW, That's wisdom right there.
Posted July 02, 2013
I just hope they pull through :(
Posted July 02, 2013
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Spinorial: I just DOUBLE hope they pull through :(
Fixed
Posted July 02, 2013
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xy2345: To be able to handle freedom you need discipline.
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Tranquil.Suit: WOW, That's wisdom right there.
You're welcome.
Posted July 02, 2013
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Tranquil.Suit: To be fair, if you gave Tim an infinite amount of money, he would make one hell of an adventure game.
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xy2345: No, he'd probably still need twice as much money to actually finish it. ;)
You mean DOUBLE infinite money!!
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