No, it's not a democracy, it's a business venture. And ultimately, it is a stupid reason for anybody that wants to see a new LSL game to not back the project. Now, for people that don't really care, it's a reasonable response, but then again, I don't see any reason why they would buy a new one either.

Ultimately, it's not my money, but boycotting the remake is really a silly way of communicating to Al or the owner of the relevant IP that a new LSL game would be popular enough to pay for the production costs.

fair enough... if my reasons aren't good enough, I'll erase myself immediatelly from this world for being unreasonable. *zap*

EDIT: actually, no :) so if I want to see a new 8th part of LSL, does that mean that I must finance all the previous remakes otherwise I'm being stupid?

EDIT2: I'm sorry, I'm having a really terrible day at work so I'm aware of my answers being a bit rude...

Don't worry about it. The point is that somebody has to fund all those games to get to LSL 8. And the quality will in part be based upon the amount of funding they get. Having people boycotting because it isn't LSL8 isn't going to make it more likely that there will be one.

You specifically don't have to give to any of them, however, the better funded are the more extensive the remakes become and the more likely that they'll have time to add meaningful new content to the games.

You could also, presumably, support the project by just waiting until the game is done and buying a copy. The downside there being that the money isn't available to produce a better game.

Ultimately, it's up to you to decide whether or not to buy in on the kickstarter, but if you want LSL8, it's probably better to buy in, even if for just a few dollars. Money talks, but just having a long list of backers also helps even if you're only backing for a couple dollars.

you're right, if we want quality games to come back, we must consider this not buying a remake but supporting a great artist :)

and I really am not boycotting this game, I'm just not that interested in the first installment - I was simply trying to answer the Great Question (in the title of this thread :D

I didn't mean you specifically were boycotting the game, but I get the feeling that there's a fair number of LSL fans that are because it's not a new game and they don't realize that there will be updates and new content if they get enough money to do so.

Crap hope we push enough to get the second play through they talked about.

I actually starter another topic about this, but basically Replay needs 650k to add new area and a girl into the game. The current level is enough to add more interaction with environmenst and add additional jokes and stuff.

So, for those, 1:1 remake was the biggest issue for not pledging, it's not anyomore.

Anybody know how much is on the paypal account? 630.000$ and 9 hours to go. I'm really hoping for the 650.000$ tier.

Larry is now officially over 650k when paypal pledges are counted in, so there will be new girl in the game. And still 7 hours to go.

Yes, they are over 650k

http://www.replaygamesinc.com/leisure-suit-larry-paypal-donations/

Yeah but I don't know why that was supposed to be such an appealing point. Unless they are implying that there would be a string of puzzles, locations etc. based on that woman for Larry to be humiliated and kicked out on his backside.

Well considering all the women in Larry games need puzzle solving, that's pretty self evident by itself.

Yeah I guess it is. I just have a habit of taking things too literal and when they said, "we get to add a new girl" my semi-asperger's brain just thought they'd be dumping a new girl in there for the sake of it.

And it's over. 655k ffrom the Kickstarter with additional 18k from Paypal, which is still open for pledgers BTW. In all 673k for Larry.