Really? John Ro-fucking-mero is part of this company. JOHN ROMERO.
It doesn't even have a title! These guys have a name, and a good pedigree.... but, Christ. I wish I could just say "I wanna create an Old School Adventure game!" and ask for a million dollars!?!
Yep, nailed my first thought. He's not even mentioned among the luminaries of gaming on the front page, as his presence almost certainly detracts from the campaign
Also... they're going with Unity3D for cross-platform support, but need another $500K to support Linux? They only need
one Ryan "Icculus" Gordon (who essentially ported Unreal Tournament, Serious Sam, and Prey
by himself) or Alternative Games (which is basically two and a half guys in Finland who ported Trine & Trine 2) for 4-5 months. Or a number of other talented porting crews who could also help with Mac OS X.
Hell, benefits included, they could hire FIVE porting engineers with those additional funds, each of which is probably a talented gal or guy who could implement features and fix bugs on the overall project as well as porting, packaging and QA.