First Double Fine. Now Obsidian. What is interesting about this whole crowdfunding trend is just how out of touch traditional publishers are of certain types of games (i.e. anything that's not an FPS). Even more interesting is the amount of people supporting these so-called dead genres that publishers don't want to take a chance on.

When DoubleFine started their funding project, it was for 400k. Now they're at 1.7 million.

That's 1.7 million dollars of of real support to a project that might fail vs. a zillion kids asking mommy and daddy to purchase the next Call of Duty.

This is exactly what needs to happen. Developers need to go directly to the public and find out if people are interested. Nothing shows more true interest than someone betting on it with their own cash.

It maybe tougher for smaller developers that don't have the clout DoubleFine does but who says you can't at least gauge interest?