An official Cyberpunk Trading Card Game has raised $7.5 million on Kickstarter, hitting its $100,000 objective in simply 5 minutes and turning into the most-funded buying and selling card sport (TCG) in the crowdfunding platform’s historical past.
Developed by WeirdCo in conjunction with CD Projekt Pink, the TCG will deliver the Cyberpunk franchise to the “bodily buying and selling card area for the primary time.” The debut Cyberpunk TCG set, Welcome to Night time Metropolis, is about to launch later this yr, and contains iconic characters like V, Jackie Welles, Johnny Silverhand, and Judy Álvarez. Gamers can combine and match their favourite characters in aggressive decks or private collections, with Set 2 increasing the sport additional and absolutely introducing characters from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Inside 5 minutes of going reside, the Kickstarter’s $100,000 objective was met. “Hey chooms, we did it,” the group wrote. “Because of your unbelievable help, Cyberpunk TCG has been funded in simply 5 minutes! Seeing the venture attain its objective so shortly has been surreal. All of us right here at WeirdCo have spent a very long time constructing as much as this second, from designing the playing cards to creating the gameplay programs, working with superb artists, and getting ready for this marketing campaign launch.”
It did not cease there, nevertheless. The marketing campaign then sailed past $5 million in “slightly below three hours,” prompting WeirdCo’s group to write: “You gonks are loopy. We already broke our $3m stretch objective! You are blowing previous these targets earlier than we will ever launch them — THANK YOU!”
Unsurprisingly, WeirdCo has now added additional stretch targets, together with a Legend Pack Improve: Johnny Silverhand at $8.5 million, card sleeves at $9 million, and one other legend pack improve, this time Saburo Arasaka, at $9.5 million. Hit the heady $10 million milestone, and all backers from Widespread Cyberdecks to Night time Metropolis Legend tiers will obtain a Kickstarter unique Nova Uncommon Rebecca: Having a Second card, and one further Legend Pack might be added to the Beta Field.
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Pledge rewards begin from $49 for 2 starter decks.
By contributing to the Kickstarter fund, gamers can entry different unique objects and card arts that may solely be obtainable as a Beta merchandise, and allow them to “get in on the bottom ground with the group of Cyberpunk TCG and assist form the long run course along with your suggestions and participation.”
The TCG is, after all, primarily based on CD Projekt Pink’s Cyberpunk 2077, the non-linear sci-fi RPG primarily based on famend pen-and-paper-RPG designer Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk system. CD Projekt just lately confirmed it has no plans for extra DLC or expansions for Cyberpunk 2077, whilst it’s reportedly set to disclose a secret DLC for The Witcher 3.
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