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02-04-2014 04:22 PM
"Someguitarist" wrote:
Man, I feel for you, and I *really* want you to be successful, but I think your goal is *incredibly* high and your consumer base is incredibly low.
You are looking at an incredibly, incredibly small base of maybe 10,000-20,000 Rift owners, and out of them I'd suggest only 2,000-3,000ish Rift + Hydra owners, if that. That means that IF EVERY SINGLE PERSON who can possibly play your game donates, they'd have to donate 10k apiece. If we assume even more, say 5,000 Rift + Hydra owners, they'd still need to each contribute 5k. Every one of them.
It also doesn't help that you don't have any development history (Listed on KS! You might, I just don't know!), or that you've refused to give a demo that *doesn't* require the Hydra. I get it; I get that that's what you're going for, total immersion and whatnot, but you are limiting yourself to an incredibly small audience.
I like the game, I like the look of it and the idea behind it, but I won't back a game that I simply won't be able to play. That doesn't make sense.
All that said; Again, I wish you the best. And I wish you good luck with the rest of the KS campaign.
02-05-2014 05:41 AM
02-05-2014 06:35 AM
"Someguitarist" wrote:
Wow... I don't know *how* I did that. The sad thing is that I'm a physicist by trade; I work with numbers all day. I guess it's been a rough week! 😄
Anyways, yes, you are right. 5k users would still be an average donation of 45$, which is *still* pretty high for a kickstarted game with no developer history. And I still have a hard time believing you'll find 5k people with a an Oculus AND a hydra AND want to donate 45$ to an unproven team.
STEM does come out soon, but again, that's more money for something that also hasn't been proven to be the standard. I don't doubt that a bunch of people will buy it to use with the Rift, but again, I don't imagine adoption rates to be that high. We'll see though! Fingers crossed for everyone involved!
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