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Reply To: Hysterical games — "winding the company up"

December 4, 2018 at 8:57 pm #1310285

limburger

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@avernos : the iron&oak kickstarter has that kind of response from a certain type of backer.
It’s flockin’ insane when a project has achieved 100+% funding and those folks act as if there isn’t enough value.

I guess part of the problem is that the average person doesn’t understand how much money is required, so creators are forced to bid low and use stretchgoals to achieve the actual funding level.

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@jamesedwards Kickstarter have done a ‘100 items max’ theme where creators were encouraged to restrict their output to 100 items/backers. The problem here is that Kickstarter themselves are a business so while there is definite long term benefit of supporting such newbie creators for the platform the short term results of the big boys are more important to the shareholders/owners.

It sucks when companies refuse to accept the social responsibility (the size of) their platform has given them, because there is no doubt that it would have saved a lot of post launch problems.