The idea behind Kickstarter is a beautiful one – it’s about the democratization of investment, about allowing the man in the basement with the dream to create an everlasting toothbrush to put his theory to the test. It’s not an iTunes preorder page.
-PSLS
A Kickstarter campaign for Scrylight, an AR game that lets players hunt ghosts, is launching in October.
"The Darmstadt-based (Germany) indie games publisher rokaplay and indie games developer Cyberwave, are today very proud and happy to announce that their beautiful and cozy survival/crafting game “Solarpunk“, managed to become fully funded via Kickstarter on June 29th (2023)!
And it's all thanks to the 6,312 backers who pledged a total of €305,266 (which is 10 times the game's original goal of €30,000!) to Solarpunk's Kickstarter campaign." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
"The Montreal-based (Canada) indie games publisher BadRez Games and indie games developer BadRez Games, are today very happy and proud to announce that they have just launched a Kickstarter campaign for their upcoming chess-themed fighting/strategy game "Checkmate Showdown"." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
I want to do a Kickstarter campaign where the goal is to raise $100,000. Every time you donate, you help me make it a reality.
Maybe Kickstarter will change their rules soon to prevent this in the future?
Hard to put my finger on it, since they're technically not doing anything wrong, but I have to say that something about the whole situation leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth regarding PA.
I guess it's that I can't help but feel like they're milking their own popularity.
Spending money on one Kickstarter Project that may not need it doesn't take away money from other Projects. It's still very much the consumer deciding what they want. So, everyone, just chill out.
Don't like it, don't give. Simple as that.