Update 34
Thank You![edit]
Mar 6 2015
As our Kickstarter campaign comes to an end, we cannot express enough how grateful we are to you, our fans and our community, for having faith in us, backing us, and helping us mold Underworld Ascendant into the game we all want it to be. This experience has been truly amazing for every one of us, something we will never forget!
Now, moving forward, this grand party will head over to our website, where we will continue to keep you updated, continue to have live events, keep the chatter going on our forums, and have new votes for you to share your voice. Together, we will roll forward with the adventure of bringing Underworld Ascendant to life!
We’re also going to continue to crowd-fund the game, so that we can reach at least a few more of the Stretch Goals that are not reached during this Kickstarter. Moving the funding to our website means that we will now begin accepting pledges via PayPal. For those of you who use PayPal and were unable to pledge during the Kickstarter please head over the our online store and join us at last!
Managing Your Pledge and Add-Ons[edit]
Over the next month or so, we’ll receive the information from Kickstarter regarding your pledges and this information will become available in our system. We will notify you when this transfer is complete. We expect this process to take several weeks – we appreciate your patience.
Some time after that, you'll be receiving a backerkit survey from us asking you a bunch of questions such as which add-ons you may have selected, get your address information for sending you any physical goods, and many other questions related to your pledge.
While we know many of our existing backers will wish to up their pledges over the coming months, please do not do so until the backerkit survey has gone out. At that time we will have all the information about you in our database that we need for you to begin adjusting your pledge amount.
If you have any questions about this process, please don't hesitate to reach out to us via our website or forums.
What's Next?[edit]
After we here at OtherSide take a few brief moments to collect ourselves and perhaps raise a toast in celebration, it will be right back to work with the continued development of Underworld Ascendant.
The first thing we want to do is outline for you, our backers, just what our outlook is for development through the rest of this year. On Monday we will be posting this outline to all members of our forums. We think this will give all our backers the confidence that we mean it when we say we WILL deliver this game in a timely manner, we WON'T get bogged down in feature creep and this WILL be the best CRPG since the first Underworlds.
In addition, sometime in the next week or so, we will be having our first post-Kickstarter community vote. This time we want to lock down the look of the Lizardmen and we know you want to help us. Stay tuned to our website for information on what the looks we are debating are, and how you can help us determine another important design point in the game!
Join Our Forums, Get a Sweet T-Shirt[edit]
All the great stuff outlined above is happening on our website and in our forums, and we want you to join us for it all! But, you can't participate if you don't register. And we want to give you that last nudge to do so. For all who have already registered, or do so by Tuesday 9am ET, March 10th, you’ll be eligible for getting one of 50 Underworld Ascendant t-shirts we’ll be randomly giving away. Now that's some swag! Head over to our forums and sign up now!
Dire Berries and Silver Pennies[edit]
Finally we want to let everyone know how the Dire Berry event ended up. On Thursday at 9am we had earned roughly $771,000, and we said for every $10,000 we earned past that by 9am this morning that we would give all backers 1 Dire Berry, a magic fruit grown deep in the Underswamp. Well, this morning we ended with $859,056 which means everyone will get 8 Dire Berries and be able to enjoy their healing and energetic properties. Congratulations, and thank you all for being such a spectacular group of fans!
Also, last Monday, we issued a different sort of challenge. We asked our community to raise our average pledge per user amount over $57 dollars. For every dollar over that amount we reached by the end of the campaign, we would add a Silver Piece into an in-game purse for all of our Kickstarter backers at the PIONEER tier or higher.
Well, we reached an average of $61.48! That means 4 Silver Pieces for everyone (who pledged at PIONEER or higher)! This increase in average pledges really helped us hit those last stretch goals, and we can't thank you enough! Enjoy your silver, and don't spend it all in one place!