Hi NS studios!
I prefer a direct payment.
because maybe in kickstarter you do not get the amount according to your expectation then what you will do?
In standard payment at least you have the assurance that the customer will pay the right amount
Thanks
Ishan

Hi Nikola,
congratulations on the new library. I'm glad to hear of it and will certainly be buying it when money permits, no matter the payment method, although I would prefer standard payment for this kind of project myself. Even the previous library was not bad but many particular sounds just were not suitable for the kind of audiogames that I've been making. So, a bigger library with more and better sounds is always good news. :-)

Just to clarify the purpose, why exactly would you prefer a campaign? What else do you need to fund? Is the library not completely made yet, or you just want to make sure you are going to get a certain amount of money off it if not enough people bought it directly, or what?

Like I said, I would prefer direct payment for this, but I'm not against a campaign either. I've supported several in the past and I do like the philosophy of campaigns as such, so no problem there. Haven't heard of Gofundme before, either, but that platform definitely sounds interesting, so I'll certainly check it out for possible campaigns to support.

Another alternative to Kickstarter that you might want to consider is Indiegogo. I believe the site is just indiegogo.com but you may want to Google it just to make sure.
Just like Kickstarter, this is meant for creative work and similar projects, and it also seemed a bit more accessible, and less cluttered and thus easier to navigate, and also the website as such seemed to be much faster and more responsive to me, when I supported NVDA Remote on it. Unlike Kickstarter, however, you do get to keep the money here even if you don't fully meet the goal, so that could be an interesting option for you in this regard.

By the way, I have also voted already, my vote was for direct payment but this message should explain my reasoning.

Thanks for the good news, good luck with the library, and I'll certainly be buying it no matter what if you do provide a demo or preview of some sort and I find the quality improvement worth it. :-)

Hope this helps,
Lukas

Hello. I'm a guy who livs in a country which pay pal has blocked it. Dollars are too expensiv, And having a credit card is almost impossible for me and for us. It'd be really great if you use the kick starter way. Most of the people in our country(At least the blind ones) cannot talk english very well, So i'm talking as their blind friend who knows english. We cannot buy any libraries. Cause of that, we have to use free sound effect which they has a very bad quality most of the time.
Thanks,
regards!

@Ns studios, I'm afraid my own vote was based on the usual idea of a crowd funding campaign where something is funded, backers get their gifts and then the thing is sold out right.
I voted to have a direct payment method since that seemed a more standard way around with the library and wouldn't have potential developers after the campaign had finish being in need of sounds that were only available to backers and unable to get them.

However, i have an alternative suggestion, why not simply do as several devs such as Oriol have done in the past.
Simply release the library for free but have a "suggested donation amount"

That way there is no confusion about who gets what where, you can carry on distributing the library, and people who want to and can donate can do that.

Believe me, it's not quite as loopy as it sounds (look at how well the Alteraeon pack has done).

Well i can appreciate the problem of worrying you won't get the money, but being as most kickstarter and crowd funding campaigns basically run on an all or nothing approach where either you get all the money within a six weeks time frame, or none of the money and have to stop, I wouldn't recommend that.

I'd suggest either a, simply selling the thing out right if it took so much work, or B, selling the library for a while and then making it free if you had enough money to justify it, whenever that was.

Hi.
For me, there is still another way.
1.  downloading the library is fine but what if its well rather large, maybe I don't have the space for 4gb or whatever.
Hmmm maybe I want it on a dvd or usb stick.
Hmmm maybe I pay for a usb stick or dvd backup.
I do have the space but what if my drives go bad, maybe I pay 12 bucks for that backup disk via paypal and get it sent at me.
You have loads of options.
Maybe I pay to get a behind the scenes look at how bits of the pack were made etc maybe I pay for a nice case, or a bundle which includes a nice t shirt or something.
You have a lot of options for support.
Last month I got a new cd of a band for family, since it came out of the us I had to pay at least 40 nz dollars for it that included a 12 dollar shipment tax charge as well as extra taxes.
For that I got the cd and a sampler disk.
I recieved a digital coppy of the album and sampler, the first 5 singles for that album, a making of video for another album I have allready, and some bonus digital cd tracks not ever released that I never had before.
I could have got a shirt and extras but I got the cheapist bundle I could get.
I still got a lot of things.

Nikola, the approach suggested in post 12 seems a pretty reasonable compromise to me. I see where you are coming from in your last post, and why that might be a problem, so if you do include gifts, digital gifts would certainly be a much more viable option. :-)

However, Shaun is right in that a paying customer needs to have an option to at least redownload the library again in case their hard drive goes dead and they lose it or something.

Lukas

For example I losted a copy of your previous sound livrery I don't know what it spelled, and I don't also, well...

Well, I will contact you when I'm out of school.