Is it possible to strech the Kickstarter countdown?

boringnick

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Let's the say game makes it to something like 1.2 Million and is less than 50.000 from the goal away.. isn't it possible to stretch the Kickstarter for a few more days?

It seems kinda cruel to abort a million dollar project when only so little is needed. is there really no mechanism at Kickstarter to allow one week more for such emergency "95%" cases?
 

Keeval

Keeval
No - I'm afraid if the Kickstarter doesn't reach its goal.. FD gets nothing. The duration of the kickstarter can't be changed once it is up and running. Elite : Dangerous ran for 60 days which I think is the maximum amount of time that a Kickstarter can run.
 

Geraldine

Geraldine
Spot on Keeval, even if it was just £1 under target, the project dies, but c'mon that's NOT going to happen, Keep The Faith!!!! ;)
 

Sir.Tj

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That's the rules of KS I'm afraid.

But...I'm sure that FD will have a backup plan if it dosn't make it (which it will).
 

OneoftheLost

OneoftheLost
I just REALLY, REALLY wish they had started the KS later. After christmas. I could up my pledge by a good 100 if it was any other time of the year. Its a real shame.
 

Capt. Hook

Capt. Hook
I still think its all going to be good (if squeaky close!).

Incidentally I think KS takes 10% of all pledges + VAT as a fee for running the campaign. That seems a little steep to me. Hopefully the paypal service will make up this loss to Frontier and then some
 

cdp181

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Kickstarter take 5% but I imagine a good 2.5% goes to their payment processors if the UK is anything to go by.

EDIT : Unless I'm reading it wrong then the fee's are on top of the 5% cut for kickstarter.
 
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Sir.Tj

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I assume the £1.25m will be including any KS fees. So whatever is left behind after the fees will go on the game itself.
 

The Space Pirate

The Space Pirate
T.j said:
I assume the £1.25m will be including any KS fees. So whatever is left behind after the fees will go on the game itself.
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I don't think we're going to have to concern ourselves with that; I reckon we'll hit the target with ease and have a sizeable paypal fund to be ploughed into the game's long term development. :)
 

Sir.Tj

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The Space Pirate said:
I don't think we're going to have to concern ourselves with that; I reckon we'll hit the target with ease and have a sizeable paypal fund to be ploughed into the game's long term development. :)
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It might give us a couple of squeaky bum moments :D but I'm confident we'll make it.
 
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