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excited. when is it coming?
Soon! We’ll share the exact date and link here as well as on our socials and via Newsletter.
excited. when is it coming?
Soon! We’ll share the exact date and link here as well as on our socials and via Newsletter.
I would say before the collector's edition...announce the other factions. They don't have to be complete, but we should know what we're getting into before we buy something for a free to play game.
Now that being said. I watched your debute, signed up for alpha, didn't get in. Second wave alpha, didn't get in. I'll wait patiently and come when you guys let me. I would say some kind of digital badge in the game to show beta or founder player. As well as a statue of an internal or mech choice and maybe an enamel pin.
These would be on a tier system.
$10 - digital badge $25- beta code $50- enamel pin (choosable faction) $100- statue of infernal or mech $150 - name in the credits as a producer or something.
You can mess with the price structure pending on the needs for pricing and scale necessity.
I'll see you in the Storm.
Thank you for supporting us from the very beginning of our journey. Part of why we want to expand our Beta program is to open up testing to more players who’ve also been hoping to get in since day 1.
We’d love to open testing up to ALL of our supporters, but we’re not making any money yet and we’ve poured everything we have into making the game. Pre-purchases through a Founder’s Pack will allow us to offer that option to those who want it.
See you in Stormgate!
I would absolutely shell out for beta access, and if a cool painted statue comes out looking real slick a Collector's Edition is very much on my radar. And cause I'm extremely biased towards them, maybe a cool Enamel Pin or maybe 3 for the races...
Either way sounds like I should start saving money~
I recently had the pleasure of meeting with some of the folks who work on pins for other popular games at BlizzCon—would love to do pins for Stormgate one day!
I’m insta backing out of principle the day the link drops. Let’s f**king goooo!
💙💙💙
Is Frost Giant not a part of Dreamhaven anymore?
We’ve never been part of DreamHaven—they’re good friends and we have an advisory relationship where they provide us with valuable support, but Frost Giant is a wholly independent studio.
So where is the link?
Coming soon…
Before you make fun, IMO we let him cook. Romancing a bear might just be a great fit for Stormgate…
Thanks for the update! I haven’t done much with crowdfunding but will support this project 100%. I think the more physical rewards the better, like plushies or clothing and the like. in-game cosmetics are nice but will be a thing anyway with a F2P model. I would give my first born child for a beta invite so yes I think that should be included as a tier. This is also the first game I’ve ever considered getting a collectors edition for and would be proud to display a badass Vulcan on my shelf 🖖
I have three of my own, so we’re good on first born children. How about a puppy instead?
Normally I'm happy with a kickstarter campaign. Especially for a game I'm looking forward to, like I do to stormgate. But so far the rewards do not interest me at all.
I have no interest in collectors editions of any games. So this is nothing I would buy.
But I get mixed feelings when a free to play game wants to go buy to play for a beta. To be honest, this catches me by surprise and gives me a bad feeling for what might await us on full release regarding monetization.
With the information we got right now I would not participate in the kickstarter. I would have been willing to pay money for additional in-game features.
Hi Eterlik--none of our testers have paid for access, but we've reached our capacity and there's still substantial demand to beta test. Founder's Pack sales would allow us to offset the costs of welcoming more playtesters.
Regarding your mixed feelings, we aim to be fully transparent about everything we sell: we won't sell player power, for example. Stormgate will not be a Pay-to-Win RTS. We plan to sell story content, new playable Heroes for our multiplayer modes, and optional cosmetics. That's what you can expect in a Founder's Pack, for starters.
A Founder's Pack would be a way for you to directly support the team by pre-purchasing this content, which you may have already planned to purchase, while also receiving exclusive bonus rewards as our thanks for being an early supporter.
If you'd rather wait to try out the game during Early Access before deciding whether you want to purchase any content, that's OK with us too! It's important to us that you feel ...
Read moreWould you need to also buy the game when it releases? I'd only buy a beta key if I had a real key on release with it.
Our Founder's Packs would include paid content such as campaign missions for those who enjoy story and playable heroes for our multiplayer modes.
The Stormgate core experience is free. If you just want to queue up to play 1v1, for example, that will be completely free.
Not sure what you mean by reward tiers tbh.
All in all im not interested in a collectors edition.Im only interested in a beta key here :)
Reward tiers are the different types of reward options that we would offer on Kickstarter. Your feedback is already helpful. :)
Hi my first post here.
Yes unpainted give me please I want to paint it!
Welcome! We'd love to see you post here more often.
If we don't end up being able to offer unpainted versions to backers because of demand, I'll still see what we can do about getting you a version to paint. :)
P.S. I own semi-painted Space Wolf and Skaven armies. I think it'd be super fun to share a few painted Vulcans from our mini-loving developers.
It's more difficult to incentivize me to back a free game. That said paying for beta access in the lowest tier and some offline goodies in higher tier seems reasonable. Maybe you can do something about Stormgate plush <
I hope we can fast-track the plushy campaign! I'd love to see our Infernal worker Imps as toys in various skin color variants...
Well all I can say is, that I will buy the day you drop the link. Thats all I have to add.
Edit: By the way I did a post on Collectors Edition a long time ago so if you want specific thoughts on that, feel free to check that one out @FGS_Gerald
https://reddit.com/r/Stormgate/comments/xj5nht/thoughts_on_collectors_editions/
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. I think quite a few of us read your original post. Hope you like our direction for the statue!
Hello, Stormgamers,
Today, we want to talk about crowdfunding and why our studio will be launching a Kickstarter campaign in the near future.
We’ve come a long way since Frost Giant Studios was founded and we’ve assembled a world-class development team. The technology we’ve built is truly cutting-edge, and we believe it sets Stormgate up to be the most responsive and fun-to-play RTS to date. Now, with the help of our playtesters, we’re making incredible progress in the game and will be kicking off the first stage of our closed beta testing this December.
So why are we doing a Kickstarter? Is it because that’s what all the cool RTS games are doing these days? Not quite, though we love to see growing momentum for our beloved genre.
We already have all the funding we need to release our game. This Kickstarter campaign will enable us to offer our players these two highly-requested “extras”:
1. A unique Collector's Edition...
Read more External link →Closed beta was announced for December I guess it's not "early" anymore.
This stage of closed beta is still relatively early in our development! We're excited to add 3P co-op to this testing phase, but we still have a lot of Stormgate that remains to be built.
Will the average user be allowed to stream their gameplay or just a shortlist of the pros?
The closed beta is under NDA, so playtesters are not allowed to stream unless given specific permission.
Cool to see the Frost Giant & Stormgate mention!
nobody is making any co-op rts ever. pve in rts is in massive demand according to a recent reddit poll. yet there is a tiny amount of games out there, most either bad or modes or mods of sp/pvp games.
We’re going to be testing Stormgate co-op mode in December—it’s what I’ll probably end up playing most.