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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
i paid $30 for the Star Citizen Kickstarter. there's no way you'll get a copy of that game at release for less
and why do you hate crowd funding? without it, games like Star Citizen or other niche market games would never be made
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Right, I guess the key word is "at release". Most indie games are not worth their at-release prices, and are generally incorporated into humble bundles/steam sales extremely rapidly. I've also seen a lot of cases where the minimum backing is the exact retail price of the game, so perhaps you got into a decent kickstarter.
I also don't like crowd funding, because it shifts the risk from the developers to the backers, without the backers gaining anything from it.
Whereas with a venture capitalist, they at least get a stake in the project, backers basically get nothing. It's basically a pre-order for a product that has no reputation, no investment to actually succeed, no history of success and no guarantee of quality.
I understand the desire for this to happen from a developer perspective. Heck, I'd love to get an interest free loan for a promise that I never have to pay back or deliver on. I guess I just don't understand it from a backer perspective. To me, it feels like a scam from the developer, and there's been pretty significant scams on kickstarter already.