They also get a larger share of the profits and hurt local businesses. It provides the companies that use it a shield to basically protect them from all liability and to ensure success of their products. To me the problem is kickstarter is very anti-consumer. We’re going to need a bigger community social media backlash/protest/movement to change corporate behavior. I don’t think stray individuals are going to make a difference here by just opting out of the late-stage capitalist dystopia of Kickstarter. Even if it wasn’t, Stronghold doesn’t owe anyone privileged information on business deals. This Target deal could have been closed after the KS for all we know. There’s no rule that Stronghold had to deliver to backers first, so let’s not act like there is. I might be an outlier, but I have never thought that a KS project should have to deliver to backers before the product is available publicly.Ī huge pet peeve of mine is when an online community decides to make up arbitrarily rules and hold others accountable to those rules. With that said, I did back (because I like TM and this was my best choice) and I don’t care at all about this Target news. It’s literally the perfect situation for them, and literally the worst possible situation for the consumer. Unnecessary use of Kickstarter is abusive and incredibly customer-hostile.īy using Kickstarter, a company gets 100% of profits up front while being shielded from liability if anything or everything goes wrong, including straight-up not delivering at all. ![]() I object in principle to any use of Kickstarter other than to launch products that otherwise would not happen. Unless it's a truly independent project that you believe in, it's a waste of time. Look, wait for games to come to stores, guys. Especially when we get a thing like Golden Bell Games (famous for having its CEO go to the People's Court and lose, horribly) basically demanding an extra $40 for shipping AFTER people have already paid for shipping. I think we're going to see more egregious examples like Empyreal: Spells and Steam's microexpansion being a reprint (and barely making its goal), and KS's team keeping a closer eye on things. There's the cognitive dissonance you get when board game publishers treat Kickstarter like it's a store, when Kickstarter itself says in its first line "Kickstarter is not a store." I get the feeling that with a lot of the logistical bottlenecks this year, KS is going to review what can go on Kickstarter for tabletop gaming. They're owned by the second largest board game company in the world, have literally posted a loss for five years running, and people are still willing to throw money at them for a chance to buy something. It's kind of like how I don't get why anyone would ever back a CMON game. On Facebook, the backlash was so bad they had to delete the announcement and repost it with SEVERE moderation. AEG put the KS for the third Thunderstone Quest set literally a few days after backers STARTED getting their To The Barricades boxes.
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