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College Hoops 2k KICKSTARTER

Posted on June 4, 2012 at 12:11 AM.

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At this point my desire for college hoops 2k to return with updated gameplay is so great, I wrote this email to 2k's partnerships department. Let me know your thoughts....

To Whom it may concern,

I have an unprecedented "Never Been Done Before" opportunity for 2K
sports! As a member of the basketball gaming community, I would like to
begin a project on kickstarter.com (http://www.kickstarter.com/start)
to fund the resurgence of the College Hoops 2k series. Kickstarter is
a website dedicated to funding creative projects and initiatives.
Although not every proposed project is successful, many video game
projects have raised millions of dollars to fund their ventures. Just
recently "Double Fine" adventure game raised over $3.3 Million while
it only had a fundraising goal of $400K, with just over 87K backers
pledging various amounts of money
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...fine-adventure).

Based on my reading, it appears 2k chose to stop making this game
because the CLC licensing fees were extremely high coupled with the
lack of consumer interest in the game. I am aware that I cannot
validate this information, as I do not work for 2K. Personally, I
believe the consumer interest is there, especially if the "community"
helps spread the word (word of mouth is the best method of
advertising). With kickstarter.com, not only can you better estimate
the amount of consumer interest, but the super fans of the game (like
myself) can donate greater sums of money to push this project through.
I am beginning this venture with an email to 2ksports with
the following goals in mind:

1. Direction pertaining to who would be the best person to correspond
with for this inquiry

2. The minimum amount of money it would take for 2k to restart
production (this information is required by kickstarter as On
Kickstarter, a project must reach its funding goal before time runs
out or no money changes hands. That way, no one is expected to develop
a project with an insufficient budget)

Secondly, I would like to highlight why I believe this could be great for 2K.

1. PR- This is an excellence story! The passion of the gaming
community coming together to bring a game back. This would help kick
off the marketing of the game, as this has never been done before, and
2K would be front and center.

2. Over abundance - Games often raise much more than their funding goal.

3. Win-Win opportunity for 2k sports

Comments

# 1 SkillzKillz719 @ Jun 4

Haha.
I wrote something along those same lines to the people that make BackBreaker to make an Arena Football game.
And I got back an email that they don't take advice outside of in house.
But hopefully they write back

I'd donate some.