Elite: Dangerous

[Blaster]

I'd say this will miss its goal... which considering the publicity it got in the UK will be embarrassing.

14 days and over £350k to go. Not going to happen, I'll say.

(I thought they would squeak through, just barely meeting their goals - but now it looks like they might fail even at that).

This is why I rarely make predictions or listen to other people’s.

 

[AD]

The last two days of any kickstarter are typically the biggest. It's not too surprising to see the upswing in the last 48h. Though it had already been funded by that point, we saw the same thing with Star Citizen and from what I hear that's pretty typical of most projects on the site.

 

[Silent Hunter]

It's reached the goal. Glad it went against my prediction.

 

[MartySheen]

It's reached the goal. Glad it went against my prediction.

Me too . The two guys that pioneered the space sims, working on awesome new games - good times.

 

[centaurianmudpig]

I have mixed feelings about this. I played Elite 2 and First Encounters to death and enjoyed them both. I hope it turns out better than what I'm expecting.

 

[RogueBanshee]

Almost missed this but they hit the extra goal that let it be ported to Mac, and the 10 extra ships. What I would love is something like the old Escape Velocity games where you could hire escorts and take over systems. Allow the players to form their own empires in both Single player and multi-player

 

[FekLeyrTarg]

There's another Elite-based project being kickstarted: Lave Revolution.
It will be a novel which will tell what happened in the Lave system between First Encounters and Dangerous. Eventually, they'd like to create a shot-film based in the novel.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/allenstroud/elite-lave-revolution?ref=live