Stories about your spouse's reaction

[Drool]

Personally I think people who donate money on Kickstarter projects should not be able to take that money back unless the donation goal isn't met.

Technically, they haven't made a donation yet. The money hasn't been transferred, so it's little more than expressing an intent to donate.

[Vryheid]

Personally I think people who donate money on Kickstarter projects should not be able to take that money back unless the donation goal isn't met.

Technically, they haven't made a donation yet. The money hasn't been transferred, so it's little more than expressing an intent to donate.

That may be how you view a donation, but to me it seems rather immoral to change your mind about it. If a game had a suggestion forum only open to people who made donations, for example, what's to stop someone from making a donation, making a bunch of posts and then changing their mind about it? Seems a bit silly to me.

[Drool]

Well, I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it immoral, but it's certainly not cricket.

[krellen]

If a game had a suggestion forum only open to people who made donations, for example, what's to stop someone from making a donation, making a bunch of posts and then changing their mind about it? Seems a bit silly to me.

It's kind of silly to implement a pay wall before anyone's paid, either. Kickstarts are pledges, not donations. There's a difference.

[vadrick]

If a game had a suggestion forum only open to people who made donations, for example, what's to stop someone from making a donation, making a bunch of posts and then changing their mind about it? Seems a bit silly to me.

It's kind of silly to implement a pay wall before anyone's paid, either. Kickstarts are pledges, not donations. There's a difference.

Definitely agree.

However, you bring up a great point. Maybe AFTER funding, people could pre-pay for the game and join the discussion with the rest of us. Yes, it should be more than kickstart/paypal funders paid. There should be a distinct advantage for those that entered the ring early. However, we shouldn't outright exclude those that come on board later, particularly if they are ok with paying a premium.

[paultakeda]

I think mine didn't bat an eyelash on the $100 but is definitely tapping her foot on how much time I'm spending reading these forums.

As for backers-only forums... yes, it should go up after the pledge drive and KS/Amazon takes their ~7% cut of our money. I'd make it pretty limited though; say a free for all discussion thread and poll threads from the mods acting at the behest of the devs to get our input. The current forums suffice for anything else.

[scout]

I think mine didn't bat an eyelash on the $100 but is definitely tapping her foot on how much time I'm spending reading these forums.

As for backers-only forums... yes, it should go up after the pledge drive and KS/Amazon takes their ~7% cut of our money. I'd make it pretty limited though; say a free for all discussion thread and poll threads from the mods acting at the behest of the devs to get our input. The current forums suffice for anything else.

Agree^^ She didn't realize anything was missing but she caught me on the forum and thought i was looking at pron...

her- "hmmm what were you looking at?"
me- "just these wasteland forums, honestly!"
her-"I'm gonna remember this"
me-"what? seriously im just reading the forums"
her-"You've been {reading} them, for hours.. whatever..."

[Roachy]

After taking her to the cinema and wining and dining her, I took her to a secluded corner.

Me: "Darling, I have something important to tell you"
Spouse: "What is it?"
M: I dont know how to tell you this
S: Oh god! are you propo...
M: I just spend £650 on a game!

<Pause>

anyway, I had to buy some shoes and DVDs and other trinkets but in the end everything worked out.

[AgentTate]

I told my wife how into making WL2 a reality I was and that I really wanted to support this kickstarter. She said, "if you're that passionate about this kind of thing, go for it."

She's always asking if she can go shopping and spend extra money here and there. I'm not really that way with our money, so she let me get away with this. I DID NOT tell her that I payed $250. If she asks how much I chipped in, I'll have to tell her, but she isn't asking for details as of now, and I'm not going to volunteer for a possible castration.

[Hornet85]

I'm a bachelor and I've only put down $55 for it so I guess its not really a big deal.

Planning on getting a new graphic card, the GTX 680, so there wasn't much cash left for the pledge. Now this graphic card is something I would have a hard time explaining if I was in a relationship, lol.

[Brigand231]

Whenever I want to spend money I simply point out that we somehow find a way to afford someone's virtual rent on Second Life... If we can do that every month than surely I can afford to spend money "just this one time". In all seriousness, she knows what it means to me and has already resigned herself to being a "Fallout widow" (though in this case it's a Wasteland widow) in 18 months again.

[Charlie Quinn]

I'm the wife who couldn't convince the husband to pledge more. Perhaps I need a true nerd in my life...?

[Ratboy]

So, I mentioned the fact that Brian Fargo was looking for funding for a remake of Wasteland and she didn't think too much of it. She thought the Youtube video of Brian approaching developers was pretty funny.

So I told a few guys at work that I submitted $1000 towards the development and that I would ( could ) become an NPC in the game. ( I work in a tech support call center in Winnipeg ) so they all thought this was awesome, but I still hadn't told the wife.

I had put off telling her that I gave so much money, but I also started to grow my beard back as I look like a mean SOB when I wear my shades and wanted to look mean assuming they use my picture for a likeness. She commented that my beard was growing in
and wondered when I would shave it off.

So, this gave me the open to mention that I 'gifted my tax return proceeds' to the project and I was not going to shave it off until I got a decent picture looking mean.

So, she was pretty cool with the idea. When I asked her if she wanted a digital copy to play, she tells me " I don't like turn based games "....

Better than I expected.

[bloodsausage]

My fiancee was rather upset at me, she couldn't understand why I would donate $250 dollars to a video game. Now she wasn't upset at me at all when I bought her a thousand dollar ring. Women.

[Soulveig]

Hi there)

I wanted to buy NAS with 4disc x 4TB but, i decided to start site, with forum and send $1.000 to help with game and to take some small place ingame from lovely Russian community for others ^_____^

P.S. my wife haven't know about it yet ^_^

[Enclave]

I masterfully avoided telling the fiance that I pledged $150, $150 that probably should have gone towards the upcoming wedding.

[Nemo]

Any suggestions for how and when to tell my fiancée that I pledged more to Wasteland 2 than I spent on her engagement ring?

Other than "after the wedding", I mean.

[The Swede]

Any suggestions for how and when to tell my fiancée that I pledged more to Wasteland 2 than I spent on her engagement ring?

Other than "after the wedding", I mean.

The word "NEVER!" comes to mind.

[salt1219]

i don't have a spouse but i do have a roommate. It was hard to explain to him that i was dumping 1,000$ on a game that wasn't even in beta yet.
naturally i had to reassure him that i would still make rent even if i had to work a obscene amount of overtime to do it.

this game is one of only two i would pay that kind of money to see get made, the other is syndicate (and the first person shit they just came out with doesn't count).

I work hard for my money and i'm by no means rich, although it was only 1,000$ it was still a lot to me.

I had put off telling her that I gave so much money, but I also started to grow my beard back as I look like a mean SOB when I wear my shades and wanted to look mean assuming they use my picture for a likeness. She commented that my beard was growing in
and wondered when I would shave it off.

ha! ratboy, i started growing a beard for that reason too lol

[SkyeFyre]

I guess I'm pretty lucky. We each have our own spending budgets. I just told my wife I was advancing my spending money for the next few months and that I wouldn't be getting anything during that period. Gave her the amount and she was like "Ok, well if you're getting that, I suppose it's okay if I get this <Points to item she's looking at online>?"

So we're both happy