When I first laid my eyes upon this thread, I thought that this were a great initiative to further improve OTC that we know today but it seems like I were wrong.
How did you even come across the company known as Bit Hit Studio in the first place, and why are you deliberately avoiding these folks questions?
On Topic: My concern always was with 2 things, the amount of money being requested (seemed far, far, far too low, unless done at a very low standard, I know what we've been quoted by several groups, all within a similar range, and it was alot more than $1500). Again, It's not that I dont believe they were quoted $1500, rather that maybe the quality delivered will be substantially below part. My second concern being the person leading this, there are a handful of people on this forum that if I saw them organizing this project, I would of donated quickly to this endeavour.
I'll still be keeping tabs on this, I hope to be exceptionally proven wrong, because it would be great for the community, but ultimately the issue lies with this project likely requiring multiples of that initial budget quote to be done to a high standard, and that's alot of money to be raised by a small group of this community who are willing to donate said money, that will then be released for free (Which is what should happen).
What would be ideal is someone who understands these issues to a high level, and the optomization process of said issues, leads this, with the support of ideally our forum admin (who I know is very busy, but maybe he is able to offer some time towards it out of good will) and have an actual forum wide fundraiser, potentially offering simply badges for tiered support, maybe even earlier access to the improvements over non-donators.
Just some ideas i'm throwing out there, they definitly may have flaws/disagreement, but I believe this would be a better execution if we actually as a community want this done right.
I havn't had my covfefe yet.