Stormgate crowdfunding for physical collector’s edition smashes goal in 15 minutes

The RTS hopeful is counting on popular support
Stormgate crowdfunding for physical collector’s edition smashes goal in 15 minutes
Stormgate crowdfunding for physical collector’s edition smashes goal in 15 minutes /

While the development of Stormgate, the upcoming free-to-play RTS created by Frost Giant, has been fully funded thanks to a high interest among investors, the studio launched a crowdfunding campaign on December 5, 2023, to finance some additional elements requested by the growing community of fans – among them the capabilities for enlarged beta testing as well as a physical collector’s edition for the game.

“This Kickstarter is in part a response to fan requests for a way to purchase a physical Collector's Edition of Stormgate. (...) We have also received countless requests for beta access. Scaling online multiplayer testing for a massive audience can get very expensive – beyond what we can support without additional funding,” the company reasoned in the campaign’s description.

Aiming for a modest sum of $100,000 USD, Stormgate smashed right past that goal in under 15 minutes. At the time of writing Frost Giant has crowdfunded over a quarter of a million dollars from this campaign.

Stormgate artwork.
Stormgate will get a limited physical collector's edition, thanks to fan support / Frost Giant

Containing a whole bunch of digital goodies on top of enameled pins, a coin, and a 6.5” statue of the Vulcan, the game’s posterboy unit, the collector’s edition can be had for $200 USD. A more expensive $350 version coming with staff signatures and a mention in them credits has already been sold out. Various digital packages are available as well for those who wish to back the title with a more affordable sum.

Frost Giant has set out a variety of stretch goals into which the surplus money will be invested: An arctic tileset and a HUD skin as well as additional weekly modifiers for the 3vE co-op mode and a player assist tool have been funded this way. Next up would be a beta test for the 3v3 mode and finally expanded bot personalities for the game’s skirmishes. The campaign is going to be open for 57 more days.

The high interest in the campaign shows that Frost Giant, a team consisting of former StarCraft 2 and Warcraft 3 developers, has built an extremely loyal base of fans in these hardcore RTS communities. Whether the game will be able to fulfill the high expectations is another matter.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg