Has anything meaningful ever come out of a Kickstarter?

[Soleron]

noname2200 said:

Soleron said:

noname2200 said:

Soleron said:

dharh said:
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How about the people who have paid for a game before it "fails"? Do you think they deserved to bear 100% of the risk?

Of course.

I don't think people will realise this until the first major failure though. I think most backers believe they still get something or a refund. The risk is yet to be priced in, really.

You're almost certainly right about that. I just have little sympathy for those people though, as the risks are open and obvious, while the returns are both limited and uncertain. I made a thread partly about this about a month back or so, but essentially Kickstarter is mostly a bum deal for the folks who chip in; it's got all the downsides of investing with almost none of the upshots, and all of this is apparent at even a casual glance.

Yeah deserve was the wrong word. I kind of meant deserve to be informed better.