Just Pledged but VERY confuised!

[Calidor Cruciatus]

OK.. I decided to lose my mind and splurge on the Crowdforger Buddy for $175. This is because the image says "Crowdforger Pioneer x2". This makes sense as each Pioneer is $100.

My confirmation says that it comes with "Loremaster x2". That is a huge difference to me... and it makes no sense that 2 would cost $175 but they are $75 each.

So please.. can someone from Paizo check that and clean up the pledge page so the image and text match? And if in fact it's 2 Loremasters... can you explain why? If that is the case I will probably drop my pledge down to $100 and just get one Pioneer.

Also, sorry for the noob question but will I be sent a code to link to the forums showing my pledge? Should I have gotten it right after the pledge or does it take until the 14th and the payments go through?

[Capitalocracy]

The pledge text cannot be changed, so updated pledge rewards on the main page are the current rewards. You'll get two of everything a single Crowdforger gets.

[Drakhan Valane]

Calidor Cruciatus wrote:

Also, sorry for the noob question but will I be sent a code to link to the forums showing my pledge? Should I have gotten it right after the pledge or does it take until the 14th and the payments go through?

Since there is no guarantee that the kickstarter will succeed (even if it's at 200% with 24 hours to go) until the close, you can't get any rewards until the end. It would also be a huge headache if someone pledged to get a forum title, they gave it to them, then the pledge was withdrawn.

[Calidor Cruciatus]

OK thanks. Both answers make me feel better.

I really hope that GW can figure out a way to highlight the changes to the pledges though... I am sure it would help them tremendously if the actual pledge rewards were shown instead of the "old" ones.

[Drakhan Valane]

That's unfortunately a limitation of the kickstarter platform. They don't let you change the text of levels after there's a pledge devoted to it. I'd love it if there was a better way to provide updated info on the kickstarter page, but there's just too much info. You can go read through all the updates to see just how much has been added over time. The graphics at the bottom are very helpful, though.

[Micco]

Yeah, you'll have to blame KS for this one, not GW. Star Citizen had many of the same issues, and I bet all of these game KS drives face similar problems. I understand why KS does it (to a degree), but you'd think with the million$ that Amazon is raking in due to these big drives they could be creative enough to find a solution.

[Calidor Cruciatus]

Maybe adding those images (or links) to the top of the KS page and making a clear notation that these override the text would help.

[AvenaOats]

Probably just a "see images/link summaries" at top of page would make most sense (they are big and keep becoming bigger!).

[Gilthy]

Um, Kickstarter isn't an Amazon company (as far as I know), they just use Amazon as their payment gateway for US projects (UK projects go through a different channel). Both Amazon and Kickstarter get a percentage of the pledges if the Kickstarter funds (and nothing otherwise).

They also pay for the platform, etc., which is very stable (the Star Citizen campaign did both their "own" crowdfunding as well as a Kickstarter. Kickstarter never had a problem, the "private" servers were down a lot when it got busy!).

But yes, for campaigns like this, better tooling would be good!

[leperkhaun]

I dont see the issue with it.

The fact of the matter is that KS does it to avoid any chance of bait and switch.