Shroud of the Avatar: Crowdfunding to Continue For a Year
In a very thankfully-titled update to the Shroud of the Avatar Kickstarter page, Portalarium give a quick summary of the results of their initial crowdfunding campaign:
We were totally amazed by how many stretch goals we blew past in our final 24 hours! We began Saturday morning at the $1.5M stretch goal, and were really, really hoping for some miracle to get us to the magical $1.8M stretch goal (yeah, along with all of you, we really want Tracy Hickman’s prequel novel, plus all the other cool stuff in the $1.6M & $1.7M stretch goals)!
Quite honestly, with only 24 hours to raise almost $300,000 we felt the $1.8M stretch goal was out of reach. Boy, were we wrong! You guys showed us the incredible power of community! Reading through all of your comments going into the final stretch, the relentless cheering, challenging, shout-outs and sharing, it was apparent that all of you created the rocket fuel that caused the pledges to explode like nothing we could have imagined! You not only drove us to the unexpected $1.8M stretch goal, but your infectious enthusiasm propelled us past the $1.9M stretch goal, and with less than an hour before the end of our campaign…because of all of you…we pushed past the $2M stretch goal!
…and then give some details about what is coming next for the project, its team, and its backers. The most important takeaway is that crowdfunding for Shroud of the Avatar will continue at the official Shroud of the Avatar website (via PayPal and credit card) for another year:
Kickstarter Backers can Purchase/Upgrade Pledges at Initial Prices for One Year!
We took a cue from our buds over at Star Citizen and decided that those who pledged during our initial campaign (at $25 First Responder tier and above) can purchase further tiers, or upgrade existing ones, at the same price they were available during the Kickstarter campaign, thru April 7, 2014 (pending availability of limited tiers)! WooHoo!
New Tiers, Add-Ons, and the Layaway Plan!
We are currently designing the new tiers for brand new backers, and should have those available by end-of-day Sunday, April 14th, at the conclusion of our current one-week grace period. It is our intention for all Kickstarter backers to be able to purchase/upgrade to both the previous tiers (pending availability of limited tiers), and the new tiers, whereas new backers after April 14th will only have access to the new tiers.
We are just about ready to go live with a new version of our web store that includes add-ons that all backers can add to their pledges. Keep an eye out for that sometime later this week, or early next week.
Also, we received many requests by people that wanted to purchase the more expensive tiers but couldn’t afford to pay it all at once. We are working on a plan that will allow monthly payments towards tier purchases. The total cost of a tier paid for monthly may be higher than paying all at once, but we’re still working out the details. You’ll hear more about this in a future update.
They’ll also be working on migrating all Kickstarter backers to the Shroud of the Avatar website as users, and on upgrading the chat and forum experiences at the website.
Congratulations, again, to the Portalarium team on a successful Kickstarter campaign, and here’s to that $2.25 million stretch goal being reached soon!