Project Eternity - $2M, Hardcore Stretch Goals
 

Project Eternity has passed $2M, unlocking player housing and the additional related content. Josh Sawyer has since posted a new update with a new $2.3M stretch goal tier that offers three different "hardcore" mode features, as well as some brief details on Godlike races. A partial snip:
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More nice additions. :)

I hope they can pull it off.

Not overly ecstatic with this stretch goal. Sure, there's people who enjoy turning their game into a chore, but I'd like to think that it's a niche group. And, for the record, "Path of the Damned" sounds nothing like a successor to ID's Heart of Fury mode. From what I recall, that was reserved for a second playthrough of the game; in this case, it's just a way to further pound your party into goo on the first run.

Give us more content, damnit, not a bunch of add-on party favors like companions and difficulty settings. Give me a lineup of abilities and spells to rival D&D's. Give me dungeons galore. Give me a richer backstory to the world, and ways to explore this lore.

All these updates just sound so shallow to me…too technical, not enough development of the main theme.

I guess there is so much still work in progress regarding the lore, the story and content that they can not wrap it up into a nice story.

Hardcore modes gave it actually a boost in pledges. Some minutes after announcing there was a third 10.000 $ pledge.

Enough said.

This update isn't just about hardcore modes. There is also playable Godlike races. As for the game modes, all the sub-options can be selected individually too. This mean you can play on the "normal" but select the "remove influence message" to not see how your choices affect your companions if you want. Basically a way of removing hand-holding if you don't want it.

As for more content, there is a lot at the 2.2m stretch goal.

But then you run the risk of 'box bullet points', where games used to list bullet points of what they had in the back of the box… "4 races! 6 classes! 120 weapons! 60 monsters! 20 dungeons!" but then you get the game and it means nothing, races are just skins, classes are just different stat sets, weapons same thing, monsters that are the same with a few different colored pixels, copy/paste dungeons, etc.
I'd say they should just leave it as it is. After all, gotta leave something for the sequels! or you'll end up adding a panda race.

So they should put a stretch goal, let's say 4mils… For an instasequel? So we get both Eternity and Eternity2 at the same time. :)

Hmm. Who has the money to do that? It remains to be seen if those actually get paid.

The people donating to the startup are more likely to be hard-core gamers, so they're part of the group being targeted by these modes. But seriously, why wouldn't you appreciate the ability to tune the game to your playing preferences? It also adds to the enjoyment of replay by adding back challenge where it has been removed due to familiarity with the game. I'd say it's a winner.

wow, very impressive.

Hardcore gamers with a lots of money like Noch (creator of Minecraft). He's one of the 10k pledges.

Well, he certainly took it up a "Noch" …ahem…(look, someone had to say it, and I'm avoiding work so… ;)

I've pretty much approved of all the stretch goals - I'm wondering whether they will reach $2.5 mill… and what other goals they may add if they unexpectedly have a lot more cash flowing in ;)

They will.In most kickstarter I seen last 3 days are as good or better than first 3.My prediction they will end up somewhere between 3.3 and 3.5 million $.

This. Exactly.

Project Eternity daily pledges total is a bit faster than Double Fine Adventures did. It reached 2 millions almost a full day earlier than DFA.

DFA is the most pledged (and backed) games currently on Kickstarter with 3.3 millions. PE should beat it following all the other successful Kickstarter projects trend.

If I donated $10,000 to a game, I'd be forever banned to the doghouse. I haven't donated yet, but I was thinking $140-250. I need to read through the tiers again and stop procrastinating.

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I suggest you check the pictures on the home page of the project. The text can't be updated (unless you bug Kickstarter).

There´s already quite a crapload of general info, they can´t spill all the beans right away, it´s a one month campaign.

In my opinion, it wouldn't make sense of them to propose super mega content update every 200k like some people are suggesting/wanting. It wouldn't be viable. I suppose they could skip the in between "levels" and just do a big content update every 500k lets say…but they have to keep the funds coming in and to keep people motivated toward goals that can be reached.

So it makes sense to insert smaller goals that can broaden your audience in between the "big content" pledge levels and it allows them to not make it seem impossible to reach that next step.

Thats how I see it anyway, and besides I like anything that will allow me to replay the game and find it challenging.