Kickstarter Too many Kickstarter projects? Is Kickstarter the new d20 glut?

Morrus · Aug 4, 2012

It is awfully generous of you guys to volunteer me for more work! Anything else you'd like done?

Mark CMG · Aug 4, 2012

Morrus said:
It is awfully generous of you guys to volunteer me for more work! Anything else you'd like done?

Well, you've got a WotC guy and a Paizo guy. It's probably never been worthwhile to get a guy for each publisher below the level of those two larger companies but maybe getting a Kickstarter guy might be useful to you?

Morrus · Aug 4, 2012

Mark CMG said:
Well, you've got a WotC guy and a Paizo guy. It's probably never been worthwhile to get a guy for each publisher below the level of those two larger companies but maybe getting a Kickstarter guy might be useful to you?

These guys cost money!

IronWolf · Aug 4, 2012

Morrus said:
These guys cost money!

Maybe see if you can reinstitute the newshound position and toss the person chosen for digesting and focusing on Kickstarters gets a free copper or silver subscription. Still costs you some money, but not a lot and eases the workload.

Mark CMG · Aug 4, 2012

Morrus said:
These guys cost money!

Perhaps you can approach Kickstarter to see if they will advertise on EN World to offset the cost of a third roundup guy?

Morrus · Aug 4, 2012

IronWolf said:
Maybe see if you can reinstitute the newshound position and toss the person chosen for digesting and focusing on Kickstarters gets a free copper or silver subscription. Still costs you some money, but not a lot and eases the workload.

So - find a guy that will do it for a few coffees per year? Man, you're optimistic! You know this has occured to me, right?

Lwaxy · Aug 5, 2012

What about making it so that kickstarters and similar stuff get condensed into one post each week? Anyone who wants theirs included could just submit it to whoever is in charge, and whoever is in charge might as well rotate through the mods or volunteers?

Really shouldn't be so hard, it's done like that elsewhere.

IronWolf · Aug 5, 2012

Morrus said:
So - find a guy that will do it for a few coffees per year? Man, you're optimistic! You know this has occured to me, right?

Heh! Well, with some of the perks of the Silver level it isn't an all bad deal if someone on the site happens to already keep up with the Kickstarter world. Craft up a digest post everyday, watch to see what seems to be popular or choose one or two a week to do a focus news blurb on.

pogre · Aug 5, 2012

Morrus said:
6 out of 16 of the news items on the front page right now are Kickstarter projects. So I guess the question could be rephrased as: "Is a full third of the news being Kickstarter announcements too much?"

Yes.

Options I would like:
- a round-up of kickstarters; or
- a more select group of kickstarters highlighted

both would cost you either time or money.

If it's a choice between the current state and no kickstarters - I vote no kickstarters.

A couple of days ago I started dodging the front page and going straight to the forums because of the kickstarter stuff.

KidSnide · Aug 5, 2012

I agree with the sentiment that the kickstarter announcements are taking up too much space in the news thread. I look to the left of my screen and 9 of the 15 "hottest news items" are kickstarter threads (including this one). I like finding out about new projects, but too few of these announcements generate enough replies to be worth the mindspace they are taking up. I think a weekly summary of RPG-related projects would be a more sensible way of presenting the information.

I don't mind that each of the WotC articles are given a separate thread. I'm not sure that more than half are actually newsworthy, but this is a D&D news site and the uninteresting threads were dropping of the hottest news list fast enough (even before kickstarted started pushing everything off the list).

-KS