I love the gaming industry. Sometimes it feels like the world is coming to an end, but then news like this comes along: because Wasteland 2’s Kickstarter project has well exceeded its goal of $900,000.00, they’ve opted to send some of the profit made from game sales back to other Kickstarter projects. Mind you, this won’t be a part of the whopping 1.5 million dollars they have accumulated through Kickstarter, but the game’s profits.
Brian Fargo, Founder of InXile Entertainment, had this to say about the development, “Fan funding is bigger than me or Wasteland 2 as I have remarked before. The development community has come together to support us in ways that I didn't think possible and our power as developers will ultimately come from us sticking together. Both gamers and developers have so much more strength than they realize.
"But in order to help facilitate the power of crowd funding, I am going to suggest that all of us that do utilize this form of financing agree to kickback 5% of our profits made from such projects to other Kickstarter developers. I am not suggesting taking a backers money and moving it to another project… I mean once a game has shipped and created profit that we funnel that back into the community of developers to fund their dreams."
He’s calling this new idea “Kicking it back.” He’s even got a special team of artists working on a badge for future Kickstarter projects who agree to follow the philosophy.
So, once again: I love the gaming industry.
Via TheVerge
