I’m reading more and more that the 3000+ people that have pledged $18 want to pledge more but have no need for two copies of the game from the $32 pledge.
I’m trying to think of a suggestion but haven’t managed to come up with one yet. Possibly another item/medal for a $25 pledge?
There must be something you can offer to get them to up their pledge?
Only 4.5k to go. Going off to bed, when I wake up I hope we’ve hit the mark.
They can always pledge more if they feel generous, or aim for the $35 beta access.
I’ve been saying from the start that there should have been a bigger range of pets(shiny things) starting from the lower levels. But Arthur doesnt seem to think that that would have generated more backers or would have made any noticeable difference in the total funding…
Reading through the comments people say they want to spend more than $18 but have no reason to do so. One of my friends that I purchased the game for because he cannot get a credit card said the same. The $32 pledge is pointless to him so he stuck with the $18 even though he would have pledged higher.
If half of the 3000+ suddenly increased their pledge from $18 to say $25 it would make around another $10000. Not a huge increase but every little helps 
Almost all the Kickstarter videogame fundraising efforts - successful or otherwise - have 50-55% of their backers at the basic tier level and there is very little, it seems that will entice them beyond that point. I have backed a number of projects at the level that rewards with the game only because that is as much as I can afford to contribute. Grim Dawn is different in that I am particularly interested in the game and have been very impressed with the people involved and have therefore supported it to the highest degree I can. The only improvement that I believe can be made at this time is to get more backers at all funding levels - I imagine that the biggest single contributing factor to achieve that end will be publicity rather than further amendments or additions to the reward tiers.
Well, I think there’s not many people who will be swayed to upgrade from $18,-. On the other hand, I think that offering a $25,- tier which includes the OST and a few digital GD wallpapers wouldn’t do much harm. Especially since a lot of tracks are already available for free on this site anyway.
These rewards would also have to be included in the higher tiers ofcourse (OST already is).
A $25 tier sounds good, but bare in mind that there’s a risk that people who pedged for the $35 tier might want to decrease the amount if they can get pretty much the same thing for 10 bucks less. E.g, I don’t believe that the possibility to download the original music (if that should be the only difference) would make people go from $25 to $35. You would need to make more difference between the tiers, and that would be the difficult part.
I’m in at $50 already, I have no income at all, but I’d totally upgrade to $100 if I got a big, thick, old-school manual. A skills poster like TQ had would be cool too, but man I’d really like an Interplay-style, in-universe, novella-length manual to go on my shelf. Hell, the manual’s the main reason I backed Wasteland 2.
Other ideas:
Okay, that got silly pretty quick (I’d totally buy Grim Dawn ale though), so I should probably stop.
I don’t know if it’s technically possible, but maybe it would be a nice way to get some PR by announcing a lottery for the last weekend the game is on kickstarter.
You could draw random people from the 18$ and 35$ tier and upgrade them, maybe five 18$-backers to 35$ status and three 35$-backers to 50$ status, maybe even one 50$-backer to 85$ status.
The double key tiers with 32 and 64$ would be excluded from that, and it could draw some of them to the single price tiers and convince some people to pledge at all.
And you could get some PR by being the first to do something like this on Kickstarter.
98% and rising. I think it’s going to happen today. Time to put the bubbly on ice. 
Something that would be really cool (and extremely nerdy) is if Crate should release collectible cards with monsters, items, characters from Grim Dawn. Not necessarily playable like Magic or something like that, since that would take an enormous amount of time and effort. But just plain collectibles, like baseball cards e.g.
I would personally love such cards from the Titan Quest universe, so why not from Grim Dawn? But, I realize it isn’t realistic to think that would be possible to insert in the kickstarter project. Maybe later though…
I don’t think there is anything wrong with the tiers really, all that I think might help is a $25 tier with one game and a couple small things. other than that I think its fine, just need to find more ways to spread the word out. I’m happy that the game hit its mark, or shouldi say it will. Only $3,500 to go
Just 1% left to go! I’m giddy with anticipation.
Yeah, final nails going into the coffin today.
@medierra
thanks for the info
seems like the ‘bad’ weekend influence is gone and grim dawn will be ( for a time ) one of the biggest game projects to succeed on kickstarter
hope those interviews will get ‘us’ the much needed coverage
@inferus
i believe that such merchandise is cost-efficient after the fan base hits a specific size … for example i am romanian and transport taxes piss me on
Seeing that 99% mark is fantastic. I imagine it’s been quite a ride these past few weeks for the crate gang.
So, I contributed $202 to Kickstarter to upgrade my Legendary Edition to the Hoarder’s Edition and I received my confirmation email back on 5/2/2012.
How long does it actually take to process the upgrade? I imagine you are probably swamped with upgrades, which is the cause for the delay.
The upgrades won’t be processed until the project ends, so within a week after that with a bit of luck. Right now they are all just sitting in one big queue.
I’m a little bummed that the Kickstarter people get all of the in-game stuff.
I shelled out for a Legendary copy the day the option became available and while it’s nice to get my name in the credits, I can’t use my name in the credits to kill stuff.
It would be great if those of us that purchased the Legendary stuff back when this all first began would automatically get the Kickstarter equivalent (which would be the $50 tier I guess).
(EDIT) I don’t want this to be misconstrued as me being ungrateful. I’m incredibly grateful that the game exists at all and I’m still going to love it more than my mother. So yeah, not rage quitting or anything.