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<blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 7727977" data-attributes="member: 13703"><p>I feel like I've dodged a lot of bullets with Kickstarter. I backed both Horror on the Orient Express and CoC 7th edition fairly heavily (several hundred dollars for each). In the end they were both several years late, but I got everything I backed for. Both of them could have quite easily crashed and burned (potentially taking Chaosium with them).</p><p></p><p>There have been several other Kickstarters that I've thought about backing, but decided not to right at the end, only to see them either fail, or partially fail. I've had others fail, but I was one of the fortunate ones who only backed for a small amount and still managed to get my pledge.</p><p></p><p>At the moment the only Kickstarter that I'm doubtful of is one for some resin miniature furniture that could fail to deliver anything, but I only backed that one for about $25 and I knew at the time of backing that there was a strong chance it could fail, but I was willing to take the risk as what was on offer for that amount was a great deal (and if I lose $25 it's not the end of the world).</p><p></p><p>I think Kickstarter has matured enough now that people are a bit more selective with what they back. However, you can still easily get caught out when a well known company runs into trouble and fails to deliver. We've seen it (almost) with Chaosium. The Paranoia Kickstarter looked on shaky ground for some time too. I'm sure there are obvious ones that I'm missing (I don't count the Robotech Kickstarter by Palladium as I fully expected that to fail from the beginning).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Olaf the Stout, post: 7727977, member: 13703"] I feel like I've dodged a lot of bullets with Kickstarter. I backed both Horror on the Orient Express and CoC 7th edition fairly heavily (several hundred dollars for each). In the end they were both several years late, but I got everything I backed for. Both of them could have quite easily crashed and burned (potentially taking Chaosium with them). There have been several other Kickstarters that I've thought about backing, but decided not to right at the end, only to see them either fail, or partially fail. I've had others fail, but I was one of the fortunate ones who only backed for a small amount and still managed to get my pledge. At the moment the only Kickstarter that I'm doubtful of is one for some resin miniature furniture that could fail to deliver anything, but I only backed that one for about $25 and I knew at the time of backing that there was a strong chance it could fail, but I was willing to take the risk as what was on offer for that amount was a great deal (and if I lose $25 it's not the end of the world). I think Kickstarter has matured enough now that people are a bit more selective with what they back. However, you can still easily get caught out when a well known company runs into trouble and fails to deliver. We've seen it (almost) with Chaosium. The Paranoia Kickstarter looked on shaky ground for some time too. I'm sure there are obvious ones that I'm missing (I don't count the Robotech Kickstarter by Palladium as I fully expected that to fail from the beginning). [/QUOTE]
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