Roberts then admitted, "The downside is that they've had a lot of time to Neverwinter AD work through the kinks. Our site's gone down quite a few times because there are too many people visiting it."Kickstarter is seen as the standard for crowdfunding among Neverwinter game developers, but more and more studios are experimenting with running campaigns outside of the platform Introversion has already managed to raise over $270,000 through its site, while Infinite Neverwinter game Publishing attracted $5 million in preorders earlier this year.Cloud Imperium will continue to raise money for Star Citizen's development through its standalone site as well, and those who previously pledged donations should not be affected. Even though Roberts was vocal about his Kickstarter criticisms, he notes that the crowdfunding platform's team was "quick to offer help and have been great as we put together a solution."Despite these problems, the campaign has already managed to raise around half of its minimum funding goal of $2 million since announcing the space sim last week. He is also Buy Neverwinter Gold seeking funding for the PC Neverwinter game from private investors.