ET3D: The main problem is, the introduction was way better than what he showed of the game.

lowyhong: Finally updated the list. Phew. Pretty sure I didn't leave anything out, so if anything didn't make it to the list, it's because I don't think it's worth taking note of ^^
Also added Elite Dangerous

RaggieRags: Grimoire had an update. Best crowdfunding video so far?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPrOsNehxsM

I would say yes. Definitely yes.

Starmaker: O.o who cares what the currency is? Currency is a unit of value. Of course, the fact that labor is cheap in Russia (no matter how cheap or expensive a basic unit of currency is) and a hypothetical Russian project might be able to do more with your money is another question - that does make a difference. But it's not on the scale of 1.5 orders of magnitude. Furthermore, 1 dollar is roughly 80 yen. Is your money 80 times more valuable to a Japanese game designer?

Starmaker: No reason. You need to make a decision based on some other consideration and choose one project to pledge for (assuming they all provide a tier you're actually interested in for an equivalent pledge amount).

Starmaker: That is completely irrational. And I don't mean "stupid" or "wrong", it's just words that don't lead to a logically valid result. To support anything better, you should pledge more. big projects are big because they hope to draw in more people and make something awesome for all of them, due to how the economies of scale work for digital goods. It does NOT mean that a cheaper game is automatically better, or that you are ethically obliged to pledge the same amount for the same tier for a cheaper game.

"I am equally interested in either game" means exactly that: you have to flip a coin. Relaxing that statement to "I am vaguely interested in either game" is a strong argument for the more expensive project (assuming equal cost of human-hour), because you will be getting more value for your money. A game that's being made on a budget of $20k, $20 per copy, is an inferior product compared to a game that's being made on a budget of $2M, $20 per copy. The latter case gives you 100 times more man-hours of development for your money. Would you given $20 for something I slapped together in a day on a budget of $20? Hell no. And from then on, there's no breakpoint. If you give the (honest) devs of Game X more money, that game becomes better.

Of course, in real life, other factors kick in, like the desire to take less risks with the money.
And this is why the rubric of "how many % of a goal my pledge makes" makes no damn sense. Because if the two of us are drawing three different conclusions covering the whole decision space, that rubric is not a valid basis for a rational decision. Rather, you might think smaller projects are inherently more ethical from a Kantian standpoint, or you might subscribe to the diminishing marginal utility idea, or you might be a big-publisher-hating hipster like myself. Or whatever. But not pure %. That doesn't work.

(On another note, I think the tiers in Maia are insanely overpriced, but that's a separate issue from it being a British project.)

gandalf.nho: Wow, even Elite and Frontier are back? But I guess is the more expensive project I see in KS (1.25M pounds)

ArchonPC: Actually, I care. And the project creator certainly do. And banks too :D

ArchonPC: The finality of any given KS project is reaching the goal. All the "black magic" exchange for international backers isn't what matter for the project, it's gathering enough funds in a particular currency.

ArchonPC: That doesn't make EUR pledges more valuable for a creator, that just makes more money in the total pledge amount for any currency with an exchange rate superior to 1:1.

ArchonPC: Well, as far as we're not pre-ordering a product but investing money, "how many % of a goal my pledge makes" really make sense while the goal isn't reached IMO.

No matter what projects are cheaper or better, if it's interesting enough to eventually draw some money out of our bank account, the question is "what is the more effective investment ?". The one which will get a project closer to its goal, because that's all we can handle.

But honestly if at some point a UK KS I'm interested in gets overfunded, I'll reconsider my position because the "pure %" point will really not make any sense.

gandalf.nho: Speaking about UK projects, Sir, You Are Being Hunted probably is the first UK game project to achieve his minimum goal (40K pounds), and [url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous]Elite Dangerous also are doing well

gandalf.nho: Speaking about UK projects, Sir, You Are Being Hunted probably is the first UK game project to achieve his minimum goal (40K pounds),

BadDecissions: ...I'm very ambivalent about procedurally generated worlds. They say, "every experience will be different!" and I hear "every experience will be totally generic because we didn't want to hire a level designer!"

Starmaker: You're free to spend your money any way you like. But don't pretend it has a basis in rationality.

lowyhong: Happy 100 pages!

gandalf.nho: New projects:

Fantasy Kommander - Eukarion Wars, turn-based strategy game with RPG elements inspired by the classic strategy games from SSI

#103 - A Turn Based Strategy Game, the player controls a robotic "grim reaper" who rebels against his masters, at least the setting looks interesting

Sir, You Are Being Hunted, survival/stealth game in a procedurally-generated world

and Mercenary Dark also has a IndieGoGo campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/mercenarydarkvideogame?a=1246030

gavinb80: Just wanted to say thanks for the mention, it's very much appreciated!