burgingham wrote:Why? That is the way most game kickstarters work and they do so quite successfully. Gaming is the hobby of those people and some of them happen to have more money to spare than others. Is someone investing thousands of bucks into toys, stamps or whatever physical shit folks are collecting nowadays in any way better?
I am more than happy to see people support independant gamemakers in such a manner, because it means we get good stuff that is not made by moneyhungry corporations where the advertising department dictates the content of games and not the creative minds.
In my opinion projects like kickstarter are the future of all cultural products (or at least I wish they were), because they cut out the fucking middleman megacorps.
Don't take what I say the wrong way. If you have the money to invest in something like that, more power to you. But the difference between physical and intangible in this instance is that if for some unforseen reason the game were to tank, you have nothing to show for it. I guess it's just not an investment I would ever make is what I'm saying.
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