https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/platinumgames/the-wonderful-101-remastered/faqs
Why bring The Wonderful 101 to Kickstarter?
Although PlatinumGames has been able to grow over the years thanks to the players and our fans, we still haven’t been able to fully realize our long-time dream of self-publishing our own IPs. With your support, we hope not only to bring The Wonderful 101 to a wider audience on a variety of platforms, but also to add some content that will enhance the experience even more! This campaign is your chance to empower us to pursue self-publishing and take our destinies into our own hands.
Why The Wonderful 101?
The Wonderful 101 is a game that represents our passion for making games and dedication to quality, and one that we want to reach as many people as possible. Now, with the support of Nintendo, we have been given the opportunity to bring this game to the Nintendo Switch and other platforms as well! This is an amazing opportunity, and an important step toward our goals.
What about stretch goals?
There are a lot of exciting additions we’d like to make for The Wonderful 101: Remastered, but support from players and fans is vital in making this happen. With your help, we can create these brand new additions to make The Wonderful 101: Remastered the definitive release you all deserve, and bring it to more platforms so everyone can enjoy. And of course, all additional content funded through stretch goals will be made available to backers for free!
Will I be kept waiting for my copy indefinitely?
As the core content of The Wonderful 101: Remastered is already established, we are confident in the development schedule and guarantee that backers will receive their copies in a timely fashion.
This means less risk for you, while still being able to help us create a lot of awesome additional content that will be provided later as free DLC to ALL backers when it's finished.
Why should I support this Kickstarter?
That’s a great question! By supporting the Kickstarter campaign, you’re helping PlatinumGames to make new modes and additional content through the stretch goals.
Down the line, once additional content and modes have been created, backers will receive all of in the form of FREE DLC.
Will backers be included in the staff roll for this definitive release?
Unfortunately, the currently planned development schedule would make it difficult to include the names of backers in the credits. Instead, backers of the Gold tiers will have their names featured in the comic book, and Platinum tier backers will have their names featured in the art book. We’ll also create a page on the PlatinumGames website listing all backers of The Wonderful 101: Remastered campaign.
What about the recent news of capital investment in PlatinumGames?
Although PlatinumGames has recently received a capital investment from an outside firm, our plans for The Wonderful 101: Remastered precede that agreement, and capital received from the investment will not be used to fund the development costs associated with the project.
Why is The Wonderful 101: Remastered only being released on Switch, PlayStation 4, and Steam?
Of course, we absolutely want to release The Wonderful 101: Remastered on platforms other than Nintendo Switch, Steam, and PS4 so that fans everywhere can play, but this is a challenging endeavor for our first foray into self-publishing. That’s why we wanted to concentrate on these three initial hardware platforms.
However, we are absolutely listening, and if this campaign is successful enough to allow us the flexibility to port the game on additional platforms, we’d love to make it happen.
Why do some of the reward tiers say they will ship in April, while others ship in November?
The goal is to get the base game (both digital and physical) to ALL backers as soon as possible. However, production timelines for merchandise as well as development timelines for any stretch goals will take more time. It’s currently our plan to ship these rewards separately during the November timeframe as listed. All backers, however, will receive their copies of The Wonderful 101: Remastered at the same time.
