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July 28, 2022 at 7:13 pm #1757531

limburger

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they did say to contact them directly if you really needed a refund … but I suspect that chances are very slim.
Heck, if too many people got a refund then Mythic could end up in a death spiral.

While the wording could have been better I doubt it would have stopped the *beeps* in the kickstarter comments from screaming “scam” or “fraud”, which appears to be par for the course in kickstarters when things don’t go 100% perfect …

This is one of the reasons I don’t trust kickstarters when their initial (pre-stretchgoal) target is too flippin’ low.
It may look like they’re raking it in when they hit stretchgoal after stretchgoal and hit a few million in funding, but the cold hard reality is that a few million dollars are likely the bare minimum to actually pay the people and material needed to get things done. And that’s before the world wide disruption of logistics were a thing.

I’d like to see a proper cost breakdown of a few kickstarters … I am sure a lot of them survived simply because they were funded above and beyond their initial target. I wonder if OTT can find companies willing to talk about that aspect of crowdfunding.

From my point of view there’s no way any sane person could have predicted this for a project with a time to market as long as this one. Those who could may want to give me their predictions for the winning lottery numbers as well … 😀