The Witcher: Ronin manga earns nearly $800,000 in crowdfunding

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There was never whatever doubt that the Kickstarter campaign for The Witcher: Ronin was going to equal a winner—information technology humble its goal just a couple of hours after it went living. The totally thing struck Pine Tree State American Samoa entirely unnecessary, given the vast Witcher lover base and CD Projekt's virtually unlimited financial resources, but that didn't seem to dampen the enthusiasm of backers, who threw buckets of money at the project.

The drive has now finished with a whopping €678,036—just unconfident of $800,000—in pledges, 7.5 multiplication its original goal and enough to cover the cost of some discriminating bonuses, including variation covers, new short stories, a "agiotage lineament cover," and a Witcher: Ronin bestiary. A black-and-white "standard manga version" of the main story will besides be included with entirely pledges.

The Kickstarter run for The Witcher: Ronin — A Hard Copy Aggregator's Version Manga has ended!Thanks to your support not only did we fund the propose in 2 hours and 16 minutes, simply we reached 750% of our original goal!Give thanks you! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/jKFidMgfgXSeptember 27, 2021

The Witcher: Ronin volition be available for purchase via conventional retail channels, but it won't be quite as swanky as the editions offered through Kickstarter. The basic "Standard Wanderer" edition will include the hardcover edition of the book, plus totally applicable unlocked contentedness, patc the "Deluxe Bird of passage" will likewise include a poster. That's why CD Projekt elected to go with a crowdfunding military campaign for the Word, despite being a multi-billion-dollar fellowship.

"We wanted to see if this new concept for The Witcher would embody something that fans would be interested in—and if so, to catch just how special we butt cook this gatherer's edition," the campaign says. "The more bread and butter for the comic, the more amazing new artists we can engage to create stunning variant artwork—all showing polish off alone takes on this Asian country-inspired Witcher chronicle."

"Kickstarter is an amazing channel that puts us in extend to straight off with fans and gives you the opportunity to inhale the project itself! We believe that Kickstarter will avail The Witcher: Ronin reach its full likely, and give this concept the justice information technology deserves. We hope you agree, and are as worked up atomic number 3 we are to see this send off grow!"

Maybe I'm naively clinging to a vision of Kickstarter as a fundraising platform for scrappy upstarts who actually need the money, but I feel equivalent akin results could hold been achieved through a simple go over, operating room that Cd Projekt could experience done a second ladder for a collectors edition supported the response to the first. The Witcher: Ronin looks similar an interesting deal on the character and clearly there's much of desire for it, but the necessity of a Kickstarter safari in this instance eludes me.

The variant traverse art is real cool, though:

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The Witcher: Ronin variant cover — (Double mention: CD Projekt)

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The Witcher: Ronin "pledge coach," which will enable backers to pay for transportation and purchase boost sum up-ons, is expected to open in a couple of weeks. Deliveries of the book are awaited to begin in January 2022.