Starcraft MMO

[deepstrasz]

seriously, I do wonder why people easily give funds to these kickstarter campaigns as opposed to giving money to the poor people...

Because poor people will mostly always be poor while the rich or richer will always have their community to update.

 

[Sephalo]

So they worked on this for 2 years already.
As far as I understand it right with a team of like 5 people?
Let's say you get like 1000 dollars a month. That means 80000 dollar provides them a safe income for up to 16 months. Quite some time if you ask me.
But with an income like this, they could make this their jobs. If, they don't quit their jobs for so much money. Then where do they need so much for?
All I can think of is that the 80k is to replace their job incomes so they can work harder on it or something...

 

[WaterKnight]

No. They buy resources, pay voice actors, purchase tools, devices and probably have to rent some studios.

 

[Linaze]

So they worked on this for 2 years already.
As far as I understand it right with a team of like 5 people?
Let's say you get like 1000 dollars a month. That means 80000 dollar provides them a safe income for up to 16 months. Quite some time if you ask me.
But with an income like this, they could make this their jobs. If, they don't quit their jobs for so much money. Then where do they need so much for?
All I can think of is that the 80k is to replace their job incomes so they can work harder on it or something...

1000 dollars a month... that's way below minimum wage for a full-time gig in the civilized world, is it not?

 

[Rui]

Minimum wage is under 500€ in Portugal. Maybe not too civilized, but =P

 

[Sephalo]

1000 dollars a month doesnt look to bad on a job you do at home while 'playing' a video game. I mean. It's not that they create a badass game. They're just making a mod.

Not sure about the minimum wage, but I don't think 1000 dollars is below it right?

 

[Talavaj]

AFAIK, the minimum wage in USA is set per hour ergo considering you work full-time 20 days a month, 8 hours a day at the minimum hourly wage set by federal law (which is $7.25) you should make a minimum of $1160 a month.
In my country the US minimum wage would be way above ours average monthly salary for most jobs with the exception of high-profile positions such as software developers, architects, doctors and executives.

 

[Linaze]

Hilarious. Working at a 7/11 or McD here would render considerably more cash than 1000$ a month if you worked full time. Then again we don't have a national minimum wage; our unions handle that.