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Notch on Psychonauts 2 "Hype"

[Feb 17, 2012, 11:00 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Word of Notch has a follow up on his well publicized overture to Double Fine productions about possibly supplying funding for Psychonauts 2. In spite of recent indications that this was a serious offer, this update is a bit of a reality check, as evidenced by the post's "Hype" title. Notch now says he actually "semi-jokingly" tweeted about funding a sequel to the adventure game, and shows a little naïveté about the attention his public actions attract: "Point is, stop hyping over this, internet! You’re going to scare me into doing things secretly instead of being open and transparent via twitter. I am incredibly scared of the very real risk of people feeling let down just because I took a chance at something that doesn’t end up panning out." He also offers what he sees are the facts in this situation, as he seems them:

Tim and I haven’t spoken much at all other than a couple of emails.
We mentioned meeting at GDC, I hope that will happen
I assume Double Fine will be very busy for many months with the kickstarter project
The budget for doing a Psychonauts 2 is three times higher than my initial impression
A couple of other parties have mentioned also being interested in investing in it
I would not be investing in this as a charity. It would be because I think the game would be profitable
And naturally, I wouldn’t want to have any creative input in the game. It would be purely a high risk investment in a project I believe in.

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Re: Notch on Psychonauts 2

Feb 17, 2012, 18:01

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Kosumo wrote on Feb 17, 2012, 17:24: Look at the the whole L4D/L4D2 thing and such. Too many people hear what they want to hear without things being totally confrimed. (someone says "I'm thinking about doing X" next thing people are doing the "have you heard, they are doing X" Oh... you mean like the part where it was totally confirmed by gabe and many people working on L4D1 that they'd support it better than TF2 and have tons of free updates including more special infected? I would have been happy if they did even half of the support they give TF2. While I agree with your sentiment about people hearing what they want to hear, the L4D1/2 thing with valve lying isn't really a good example.

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