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Psychonauts 2 and Homeworld 3 crowdfunding platform Fig goes offline tomorrowAll project pages will disappear with it
All project pages will disappear with it
Crowdfunding platformFigwill go offline on Sunday, May 28th, and all pages related to previously funded campaigns will disappear along with it. That means that creators who were continuing to use the platform to communicate and deliver rewards to backers are currently scrambling to transition to alternative methods, including the likes of Double Fine and Gearbox.
Double Fine, who fundedPsychonauts 2through the platform in early 2016, postedan update to their Fig pageearlier this week stating that they had “been informed that the Fig website is going to be brought offline on Sunday.” They still need to deliver certain backer rewards, including “plushies, art books, physical editions”, and say that future communication about these rewards will come via email. They’ve also moved all the previous project updatesover to the Double Fine site.
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Gearbox Publishing posted asimilar messagerelated toHomeworld 3, stating that communication will come via email and project updates will eventually appearon the official Homeworld site.
Fig launched in 2015 as a crowdfunding platform specifically for video games. It differed from Kickstarter in that, as well as being able to back projects, some users could also invest in projects and receive a share of potential future revenue. Several well-known industry figures sat on Fig’s advisory board, including Tim Schafer, Brian Fargo and Cliff Bleszinski. A number of games were successfully funded through the platform aside from Psychonauts 2 and Homeworld 3, includingOuter Wilds, Wasteland 3,Kingdoms and Castles, Pillars Of Eternity 2, andPhoenix Point.
If you try to access the old Fig.co homepage, you’ll instead be redirected to aFig category on Republic. You can, at the time of writing, still find the old Fig homepage atfig.co/legacy.
