The new crowdfunding campaign for Richard "Lord British" Garriott's upcoming title Shroud of the Avatar has started on Seed Invest. The game seek to raise $2 million in the next 2 months and to be a backer for this round, you need to make a big investment. The investor perks include 4 tier, from $500 to $30,000, and they reward you golden in-game items from golden armor to golden castle and golden airship.
However, Portalarium stresses that there's no guarantee that the company and the project will be successful in the long term. "Investing in the company is therefore associated with a certain risk," it says.
Imagine the castle walls will be golden
$500: Golden Armor and Golden Cloak
- Game Access
- Golden Cloak
- Suit of Golden Clockwork armor
$1000: Golden Row Home
- All of the above
- Golden Lord British Shield
- Tax Free Player Owned Town Row Lot Deed
- Golden Ornate Greenhouse 4-Story Row House
- Golden Clockwork Raven Pet
$10,000: Golden City Home
- All of the above
- Tax Free Player Owned Town City Lot Deed
- Golden Kobold 4-Story Great Hall
- Golden Sword
- Tour of Portalarium Studios (travel expenses not included)
$30,000: Golden Castle
- All of the above
- Tax Free Player Owned Town Castle Lot Deed
- Golden Airship
- Golden Castle Walls
- Golden clockwork pet dragon
- Dinner with Lord and Lady British and other Golden Castle owners at their home Britannia Manor (travel expenses not included)
Shroud of the Avatar has spent $18 million in the past 5 years and it got about $500,000 left now, and according to the developer Portalarium, the development costs over $200k a month. Portalarium points out at its Seed Invest post (for the investors) that the MMO market now values $20 billion and there are over 1.2 billion MMO players across the world, and the Shroud of the Avatar project is the second largest crowdfunding game in the history with over $11M raised since 2012 and over 150,000 player registrations.However, Portalarium stresses that there's no guarantee that the company and the project will be successful in the long term. "Investing in the company is therefore associated with a certain risk," it says.
Imagine the castle walls will be golden