it's been almost exactly 10 years since the first Kickstarter campaign.
( 563 backers - US$ 57,366 - pledged of US$ 100,000 goal )

Why not try again ?
Launch it on Feb 25, 2023 - 10 years to the day since the last one.

Try again, with a $50,000 Goal ?

Get the guys to dress up in the same clothes, do the same 'wave'... and cross fade from one clip to the next clip ? ( some guys are no longer there... )

This would be a 'Fun' - but also Serious...
So show the community - 10 years and still going strong...

I can guess that 'incarnate' - will suggest - timing is important - and this is not the best time...
but it has been 10 years - you can only play that 'card' once. and this is THAT time !!

( I don't mean any disrespect, you do know best - and this is your game / company. )

The idea of the same video - and your younger self - fades into your older self... and continues.
it can be an update - what has been done in the 10 years... and why not ask for people to support again? - spend ZERO time promoting the page... if no one signs up - don't worry about it.

This will either be - a huge success - or nothing happens.

Your only investment will be...
- the time to make an updated video,
review and edit the 'reward' levels.

I look forward to your reply on this.

And if you are worried about a sudden influx of new players demanding new features.
Just set the bar higher. $50,000 - 1 basic feature. ( $100,000 - 2 basic features )

AND - If you hit the target, this time - Spend 'all' this 'new' budget on that 1 feature, that helps all players...

As inc has said a thousand, probably ten thousand times timing is important. VO could go another 5, 10 years for all i care before it does advertising on a big scale.

I also believe if they did a fundraiser and it DID succeed. It would give VO a bad public figure considering it wouldnt really change the rate at which they do things.

I talk so much shit all the time, but the progress from vo when i played to what vo is now has been massive. The moth art change, unrats, the better jump times, the hidden system! So much more stuff like the 300+ new missuons. Theres alot thats happened.

"I can guess that 'incarnate' - will suggest - timing is important - and this is not the best time...
but it has been 10 years - you can only play that 'card' once. and this is THAT time !!

I respectfully disagree that this is the time. Much like launching on Steam, the risk is spending a lot of time on pulling in a massive influx of players who will be immediately dissatisfied. They will not return easily, and some will publicly slam the game. This will greatly increase the cost of customer acquisition. It doesn't matter that it has been 10 years - it matters that Inc. has goals that he wants to meet before gambling.

+100 whistlers wise words

Ok, I must agree - with you both.

it's not worth any effort to promote the game at the wrong time.

just for the 'Cheap Trick' - of... " Wow - it's been 10 years "

I will think more and post less.
Maybe the quality of my idea's will improve.

https://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/1/37943
This fourm post has the same ideas of this suggestion and the thought behind this post my be answered with the fourm link above.