Critical Role Critical Role's Kickstarter Breaks $1,000,000 In About An Hour!

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jmucchiello

Hero

• Mar 18, 2019

• #341

Next goal is $8.8 Million for the final 2 episodes and the Ashley Johnson one shot.

 

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CleverNickName

Limit Break Dancing

• Mar 18, 2019

• #342

Forbes just published an article about them. Forbes, of all people.

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Morrus

Well, that was fun

Staff member

• Mar 18, 2019

• #343

CleverNickName said:

Forbes just published an article about them. Forbes, of all people.

(Link)

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Forbes has done a few D&D articles over the last few years. If you google “Forbes D&D” you’ll find loads of them. This hobby is mainstream now!

 

R

Reynard

Legend

• Mar 18, 2019

• #344

Morrus said:

Forbes has done a few D&D articles over the last few years. If you google “Forbes D&D” you’ll find loads of them. This hobby is mainstream now!

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Wait, does this mean I have to hate it now? Or just make sure everyone knows I was into before it was cool?

 

CleverNickName

Limit Break Dancing

• Mar 18, 2019

• #345

Internet reviews, in a nutshell:
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MarkB

Legend

• Mar 18, 2019

• #346

Morrus said:

Forbes has done a few D&D articles over the last few years. If you google “Forbes D&D” you’ll find loads of them. This hobby is mainstream now!

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Their website doesn't seem to know about them.

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Swarmkeeper

Hero

• Mar 26, 2019

• #347

Quietly hit the $8M mark just about halfway through the 45 days of the campaign. Almost to 59K backers.

 

J

jmucchiello

Hero

• Apr 5, 2019

• #348

$8,839,918 pledged of $750,000 goal
64,955 backers
14 days to go

"Final" goal achieved.

(EDIT: It went up $7,000 (50 backers. yes 65,008) in the couple minutes since I did the cut paste and typed the above until now.)

 

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CleverNickName

Limit Break Dancing

• Apr 5, 2019

• #349

The Critical Role Kickstarter just became the 7th highest funded project in Kickstarter history, beating Exploding Kittens. They are projected to end in the Top 4 by the time the project ends. This is crazy.

 

kenmarable

Hero

• Apr 5, 2019

• #350

CleverNickName said:

The Critical Role Kickstarter just became the 7th highest funded project in Kickstarter history, beating Exploding Kittens. They are projected to end in the Top 4 by the time the project ends. This is crazy.

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Even more crazy is the community around this. It definitely goes to show how, even at a different scale, building a community *first* and then crowdfunding can work wonders.

I have been checking Kicktraq each morning, and they had leveled out at $40-60K per day (which itself is amazing!) for weeks and were on target to reach their last stretch goal in a week or so. But I had missed the #critterpush online discussion. If you missed it, too, the community decided to wait until the next episode and during the stream pledge if you hadn't or add $5 to your pledge if you had.

The result was going from $40-60,000 per day pretty reliably to $266,000 yesterday and another $140,000 so far today (and at least half of the today was in the first hour of the day Eastern time when people were pledging during the break)!!! So it was a 10x increase in pledges that, as far as I can tell, was entirely community lead.

There is definitely a very large community, but probably more importantly, a very passionate and excited community! Amazing!