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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #45 on: November 18, 2016, 04:33:31 pm »
Wooooooo funded!!!!!

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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #46 on: November 18, 2016, 06:49:30 pm »
Now that it is funded it would be a good time to include paypal option ^^
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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #47 on: November 18, 2016, 07:59:20 pm »
Congratulations for the successfull launch!
TO bad there are no community goals :-( but maybe this time it can keep some traction and you can even reach the 300 000 ;)

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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #48 on: November 19, 2016, 07:43:44 am »
Backer slacker?  I'm not familiar with that term.  We are looking at BackerKit, though -- and yes, that would give things like early access or alpha access, and would count toward stretch goals and so forth.  I still have to figure out all the specifics on that, though.
Or late backer or however you call that in English. I simply want to pay with Paypal, that's all. don't want to trouble Zharmad again.

I'm still open, but of course there's only one of me and more than one person who can't/won't use credit cards.

So Backerkit or something similar would help.

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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #49 on: November 21, 2016, 10:36:15 am »
May I recommend updating the kickstarter widget on the main Arcen page? It's still pointing to the canceled one.

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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #50 on: November 21, 2016, 11:30:15 am »
May I recommend updating the kickstarter widget on the main Arcen page? It's still pointing to the canceled one.

From my view on both desktop and phone it is pointing to the right one.
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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #51 on: November 21, 2016, 11:33:02 am »
May I recommend updating the kickstarter widget on the main Arcen page? It's still pointing to the canceled one.

From my view on both desktop and phone it is pointing to the right one.

Same here. Might be an old cache entry on yours, NickAragua.

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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #52 on: November 21, 2016, 09:06:12 pm »
I will be getting the paypal option set up tomorrow!  I talked to backerkit and that's not something they can offer pre-conclusion-of-the-campaign, so I'll have to do it kind of the old fashioned way with just direct paypal payments and then we register things with backerkit after that via csv upload or whatever.  It all works out, but is more busywork for us -- I doubt there will be enough paypal people for it to be a serious issue, and after the campaign closes it will stop being an issue at all in terms of preorders.
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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #53 on: November 22, 2016, 02:00:38 pm »
Is it too soon to talk about the stalled Kickstarter? Because I think it's very much stalled and stretch goals are in danger of not being met unless new life and enthusiasm is brought in. You guys worked so hard on the first KS and I feel like maybe you're resting on your laurels a little bit right now on the marketing side of things. The KS is successful, which is phenomenal, but after taking the weekend off we're here on Tuesday and things are DEAD. A comment here, a comment there. A backer here, a backer there.

I mean, the video on the main page is still the same thing from a week ago. Get to it! ;)

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As an aside, the first gif on the Campaign page seems to be distractedly fast to me. As in too fast to tell what's going on and making it tough for me to read what's above/below it.

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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #54 on: November 22, 2016, 03:03:21 pm »
It's a tough time of year, what with Thanksgiving and so on.  We also had a HUGE rush of people from the first one, which gave us a big boost.  About a thousand of the folks from the first one haven't come over to thew new one, but we've picked up almost 300 new backers that weren't on the first campaign, so it's a bit of a strange situation.

In terms of the videos and so on, I'm working on that, and Keith has been writing all sorts of content updates that are being scheduled for today as well as later this week.  We have a featured spot coming up with KS itself, which will probably help.  Possibly we'll get some good cross-traffic from the inevitable black friday sales and so on with our other games, but we'll just see.

The campaign has definitely stalled, in the sense that it's not growing fast at all now that it's at 125% funded level.  It absolutely zipped up to 100% and then has been just clawing its way beyond that.

We just rolled out some new backer tiers, and are open to other suggestions.  I hope we hit all three of the existing stretch goals and move on to at least part of another one, but we'll just have to see.  Still 26 days left out of the starting 31, so I don't feel too upset about it.  It's hard to watch the numbers stall, but it's just a tough week right now, looking at the overall consumer market.
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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #55 on: November 22, 2016, 03:48:30 pm »
The important thing to me is that it funded overnight. That tells me that Chris and Keith did a really good job of judging things, and makes sure that AIW2 happens at all.  I think the first two stretch goals are valuable, and I think we'll hit both of them, but seeing the kickstarter fund is very reassuring. 

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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #56 on: November 22, 2016, 03:52:05 pm »
That's been mostly my feeling as well.
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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #57 on: November 22, 2016, 04:12:21 pm »
There was a significant bump in the last 2 hours, but I can't tell what caused it (i.e. it may have been a single donor or two putting down (math...) $1100).

The $-per-person is low for today, though. Average of $22/person compared with the overall $39
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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #58 on: November 22, 2016, 04:13:13 pm »
It was the most recent update that I did on the original kickstarter -- that started pulling in dozens of people immediately.
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Re: AI War II's relaunched kickstarter is now LIVE!
« Reply #59 on: November 22, 2016, 04:23:33 pm »
It was the most recent update that I did on the original kickstarter -- that started pulling in dozens of people immediately.

Ah yes, that'd do it.
I'd forgotten that that update went out.