Recently Brian Fargos Inxile got 30000 fans contributiong each with an average of 10$ to make Wasteland 2. I for one see this as a good thing happening. Would anybody here be more than me actually sponsor such a project for a new Arcanum, Planescape or Fallout. Is it possible to actually contact a smaller company with an offering to make a sequal if money is raised?

The lowest pledge amount for Wasteland 2 that had any rewards was 15 USD and the last time I looked the average pledge was more like 75 USD.

There's at least 3 Wasteland 2 threads in this forum, if you want to speak about that game.

As far as your question goes I think you'll have to be content with the developers ponying up the ideas. They don't always have the ability to work with existing IPs, many of those belong to some other business.

Of course it'll be one way some games get made going forward. No, I wouldn't hold my breath for the majority of games to get funded this way in the near future.

It's a great initiative, and I see it as a win-win for both consumers and developers all around as opposed to the traditional method of the publisher-developer relationship. As the developer, you have a benchmark for your consumer's marginal willingness to pay; as the consumer, you know what you are getting, and you have a platform to make yourself heard too.

I would quite like another Arcanum. Just so long as this time around there was the same amount of intelligence, as found in the story, characters and universe, applied to the rest of the game. Which was just dumb and thoughtless.

Planescape badly needs another game. Not that we could hope for something that would equal Torment. I don't think we'll ever see that again. And given that Planescape itself was abandoned long ago I don't think we'll see any games based on it either. So, in reality it's not going to happen. Even if it did it would be disappointing.

Fallout doesn't need Kickstarter, now, does it?

I'd love to see another Vampire game in the spirit of Bloodlines. Now that would get my money in a heartbeat (just so long as it effectively counted as a pre-order).

Depends on the game in question, who's making it (well known/established people more likely to get better support i would guess)....

I think Kickstarter sounds like a great idea, but it hasn't actually "done" anything that great yet. Certainly a lot of money was raised for Double Fine's adventure game, but they haven't actually made the game, and it isn't guaranteed to succeed even now. Wasteland 2 seems to be getting its funding too, but that's still just an announcement of a game that's (probably) coming. It's exciting, but I'm not going to call evolution-revolution before something actually gets done, and not only done but done right. If the adventure game and Wasteland 2 end up being bad and not what people wanted, there's been very little improvement.

If people got too excited about it, they'll burn their passion too quickly and the whole thing will fail :p

I would definitely not like this to become a mainstream stuff.

In upcoming news, EA will be setting up a Kickstarter for Syndicate 2, sequel to the 2012 hit, with a funding goal of $30m.

I might pledge $1.00 for this one. Do they give me the full game DRM free + Steam and Desura keys for it?

Exactly, backing a Kickstarter is a lot closer to charity to normal business practice, you are giving money hopping that the project will be one day completed.

But basically there is no guarantee; I was happy to give money to Doublefine but I am perfectly aware that it's pure charity, hopefully the game will be released and hopefully it will be great but also maybe it wont... or worse maybe it will never be released at all.

After all unlike a "real" contract between a developer and it's backer with kickstarter there is nothing except "trust", if in X months/years DoubleFine or Brian Fargo are unable to released the promised game (out of budget or other external circumstances,etc...) well they can simply throw the towel and you just lose your money.

I suppose, then, it's only a matter of time before we see the first instances of Kickstarter-funded projects never coming to publication. And shortly after, the news stories of irate donors trying to start legal actions. And maybe even some scams...