okr said:
Calm down. Gilbert & Schafer will eventually get way more than $400K even without the help of some "soulless" VGC members. Come on, as if this wouldn't have been clear from the start... These two guys know their reputation among their devoted fans and - dare I say it - sometimes they love to play around with this reputation (that's the only thing I dislike a bit about them despite my avid love for many of their games).
By the way: Both haven't really shown interest in developing a point&click adventure game in the past years and the platformer Psychonauts is in fact the only masterpiece created by one of them post LucasArts. i.e. it's also the only really outstanding game developed by Double Fine so far. That was seven years ago. Also, the best point&click games are developed elsewhere these days and G&S have yet to prove (at least to me) that they're still really interested in the genre. I've only seen them talking about point&click games in interviews for years on end. Not an uncommon phrase: "I'd love to develop another one, but...". There are plenty of European publishers which would have been more than willing to fund a point&click game developed by Schafer and/or Gilbert (after all - and afaik - German publishers funded Mata Hari, A Vampyre Story and Ghost Pirates of Voojoo Island, three adventure games developed by far less known LucasArts game veterans Hal Barwood, Noah Falstein and Bill Tiller).
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I was annoyed with the VGC response and the general attitude of hate, not the idea that they weren't going to fund the P&C game. Those German P&C games almost never get localized in English and have a budget of $100,000.
Also, Double Fine may not have made an outright masterpiece since Psychonauts, but they've made lots of great games. Costume Quest, Iron Brigade, Stacking... heck even Once Upon a Monster and Happy Action Theater are great children's games made with love.
400k in 9 hours, damn those greedy PC pirates that don't want to pay for anything!