Ryan one thing I can say without a doubt they don’t have enough money to make the game!
I will bet you that if they could get $40,000 for 1,000 full feature expansion pass with no time/effort they would take it in a second but would prefer $200,000 for 5,000 full feature expansion passes. After all there goal is to sell at least 100,000 copies at $50 getting maybe $20 a copy for a take of 2 mil the concept that they would be worried about giving 5,000 of even 4 games at $20 a copy away for free lets see that’s 100 grand worst case of marketing over the next 10 years to generate 2 mil within next 12 months.
My guess the reason they are not actively soliciting more money is two fold first and foremost after two years of development it will take a tremendous amount of time to actually solicit money new trailers, artwork, accomplishments, goals, work progress, time lines etc. In a four man shop this renewed effort to solicit a second round of finance will delay release of the game by a minimum of 4 months but realistically 6-9 months. Secondly they don’t want to listen or hear any more “When will I have my Game”.
My opinion only based on what I have read and seen the AC developers have fully realized what a monumental task they have taken on but believe they will get at least something released in the next 4 months so you do the math go for more money or get it done.
By the way 40 years of development tells me if I am correct in my 4 month assumption above the game will go to Beta some time in November. Never been to good at developer time line math:wink:
PS they have raised 260k from about 5,000 backers for a average of $52 a person so my guess is there aren’t to many full feature expansion passes at $250 my guess is there are 2,000 at $30 and 2,000 at $60 with the rest at the higher or lower numbers.