from the kickstarter: "The most common donation amount on Kickstarter is $25. Surely, 80,000 of our three million viewers would find that price-point viable!"
True, my comment was more to the fact that all of the previous record setters (e.g. Torment: Numenera, Double Fine Adventure, Ouya, and Pebble) have been open world-wide, so this has had a much more limited potential backer population and still was a roaring success.
Were the country breakdowns released for those and other multi million dollar projects? I wonder whether those projects would have hit the 1M mark from just the US contributors
I was replying to the remark: "It's even more impressive when you consider that this is effectively U.S. only"
For a show with a 3M fan base, of which I would guess most are US based, its not hard to imagine that a few percent of those viewers (or their parents) would chip in $25
I assume those viewers are predominantly US.