

Speaking of tiers, fans who pledge a minimum of $15 will receive a DRM-free copy of Wasteland 2 plus a “unique and quirky” party skill that will only be available to backers.

Over $80,000 has been pledged in just the first few hours of the first day and Fargo noted on Twitter, perhaps with just a touch of exaggeration, that the $1000 tier, limited to 100 backers, “will be sold out before the West Coast wakes up.” The Wasteland 2 Kickstarter went live today with a goal of $900,000 and while it’s not running away with it quite as quickly as the wildly successful Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter, at this point it appears well on its way to success. It was deep, it was glorious and when hassles over rights to the IP prevented a sequel, it served as the inspiration for the far-more-famous post-nuclear RPG series Fallout. Andre created a computer RPG called Wasteland that followed the exploits of a squad of Desert Rangers as they roamed the blasted wastes of a post-apocalyptic Earth. In 1988, Brian Fargo, Alan Pavlish, Michael Stackpole and Ken St.
