Stories about your spouse's reaction

[PolloDiablo]

My husband introduced me to adventure games, and we've played quite a few of them together, so when Tim Schafer announced his Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter, he immediately agreed to pledging for that. So I started browsing the site for other interesting projects, found Wasteland 2 and backed that too as I absolutely loved games like Bard's Tale, Fallout and Baldur's Gate. Couple of weeks later, he was browsing Linux-based forums and came across a post about Brian Fargo promising to add a Linux version. Reading the description of the game, he thought it would be totally something I would enjoy, and told me I should look it up on Kickstarter and maybe pledge something.

[Sub-Human]

I guess I got off pretty easy. Had to remove $60 from the original pledge, though.

[Ronin1325]

I actually had to pull my wife back from the ledge, she looked at the pledge tiers and said, "Sweetie, couldn't we manage the $2,500 donation? I really want to be a personalized artifact." I so wanted to agree with her, but sanity prevailed and we put down $250. I love my wife.

[KIrving]

Well first I told my husband that I was interested in backing Wasteland 2. I explained about Kickstarter and Wasteland then showed him the videos on the KIckstarter site. I suggested doing the minimum pledge, he said we could increase the pledge and then I said 'Cool' and we did it. Is that the kind of exciting spousal reaction you're looking for?

[SkyeFyre]

Me and my wife are just completely honest with each other. She knew how much I had pledged and basically said "Just don't go nuts". Afterwards when she saw the credit card statement she basically just said, "okie doke, what' do you feel like for supper?", and while I'd love to have some joke about how we decided on ramen, it was really quite boring and anti-climatic. I guess that's just what happens with clear and open lines of communication.

[VaultDwellnChick]

Whenever I start talking video games my bf tunes me out. He doesn't get my obsession, but we don't share finances so its no biggie.

[selkin]

I wanted to get the pledge for my birthday from my girlfriend. I didn't know what to ask for anyway, I'm not into this big present-giving hype anyway. So I asked for Wasteland 2, and she declined as "this is not something one gets for birthday present". Yes it is. Anyway, probably her problem was that the digital version is not something you can give to someone as in real life as something physical. She also organised a surprise party. I imageine it would have been hard to explain to all her friends that his boyfriend is a computer nerd D So I bought the game myself and got a special italian made coffepot for present. which I burned at the first use

[VaultDwellnChick]

I wanted to get the pledge for my birthday from my girlfriend. I didn't know what to ask for anyway, I'm not into this big present-giving hype anyway. So I asked for Wasteland 2, and she declined as "this is not something one gets for birthday present". Yes it is. Anyway, probably her problem was that the digital version is not something you can give to someone as in real life as something physical. She also organised a surprise party. I imageine it would have been hard to explain to all her friends that his boyfriend is a computer nerd D So I bought the game myself and got a special italian made coffepot for present. which I burned at the first use

My bf once bought me a bioshock game for valentines day. Now that's romance!

[Bryntse]

I: Just pre-ordered a game for $165.
She: One strange look, a moment of silence, headshaking, back to facebook, mumbling "It's your money".

[paddymaxson]

Told my bofyriend I contributed $15....actually contributed $115...

[ET3D]

Funny how I missed this topic before.

The first Kickstarter I pledged to was DFA, and there I was tempted by the $100 level and told my wife, but she didn't like that idea. She okayed that I put $30 on it. I didn't talk to her about a few Kickstarters I backed later. I thought a few dollars here and there won't really matter, and I usually backed them at minimum. Wasteland 2 I ended up pledging $30 without telling her. Then I backed Dinocalypse Now and asked her if it's okay to up the pledge from $10 to $25, and she said okay, and finally I realised that I was pledging to too many Kickstarters to just leave it unsaid, even though it wasn't a lot of money to each. She wasn't happy when she learned that I've pledged to quite a few Kickstarter projects, but I managed to convince her to see it as a hobby and allow me about $25 a month on average to spend on that. Only problem is my average so far has been around $40.

[Wazza]

I'm married to Christina's clone; I really didn't want to take my gear and disband, so I kept quiet

[TheLastOutlaw]

My spouses reaction... irked would probably best describe it. It started out talking about preordering a game which went well until I introduced the tier concept. I was told "keep it reasonable" or words to that effect. We didn't clearly define "reasonable." But it was overshadowed by the new computer build that I blew my budget for by over 500 dollars. Peace and order were restored when I bought her a new laptop. Peace and order were strained again by the Shadowrun Kickstarter. I've since lost Kickstarter privileges.