Critical Role Critical Role show kickstarter update: Backers have to get Amazon prime to get the show

[Vaalingrade]

For me it is kinda meaningless, because I don't care about early access. If they didn't offer early access, I wouldn't be upset. But in my experience with Kickstarters MANY MANY people do not feel that way. People get very nasty in the backer comments if, say, a backed game hits stores at the same time or before they get their copy mailed to them (e.g.,

People simply do not get the core point of crowd-funding. You're paying to make this thing exist. Anything beyond that is incentive and courtesy.

 

[Shardstone]

Especially for the company that bought the rights after the fact and had no hand in the Kickstarter.

All this does is make the whole thing even more absurd and gross, to be honest. At no point do the extra details some users keep posting make this seem like a more attractive turn of events.

EDIT: I've run multiple and been apart of even more Kickstarters then run. I understand the core conceits of crowdfunding. Let's not pretend like my negative opinion of Critical Role in anyway means that I have no idea what I'm talking about, since I'm apart of the Kickstarter community.

 

[Bolares]

A masterclass of victim blaming.

Okay, this is a bit to far. Not only no one is a victim here, but comparing this to real victim blaming trivializes a really serious behaviour

 

[Bolares]

Especially for the company that bought the rights after the fact and had no hand in the Kickstarter.

I know this is not the point of your comment, but I don't think Amazon bought the rights to the show. My impression was that they are only the distributor

 

[Shardstone]

Okay, this is a bit to far. Not only no one is a victim here, but comparing this to real victim blaming trivializes a really serious behaviour

No, I think there is a comparison. Telling someone who feels jilted that they should have learned to read is an abusive thing to say, and I chose the term that best captures that kind of abuse. It is not right to tell someone that their feelings are invalidated because they can't read.

 

[Vaalingrade]

All this does is make the whole thing even more absurd and gross, to be honest. At no point do the extra details some users keep posting make this seem like a more attractive turn of events.

The part where a 22 minute special has become a 2 season series with options for more?

 

[Vaalingrade]

A masterclass of victim blaming.

How can you victim blame without a victim? Most pf the complaints are coming from people who didn't even back them.

 

[Shardstone]

How can you victim blame without a victim? Most pf the complaints are coming from people who didn't even back them.

There is a wider community of people then those in Enworld. Their comment was clearly aimed at anyone jilted at this choice of action, not just those in this thread.

 

[Shardstone]

The part where a 22 minute special has become a 2 season series with options for more?

Your 22 minute special was already an entire season by the end of the Kickstarter. Please stop misrepresenting the details of the Kickstarter.

 

[Bolares]

No, I think there is a comparison. Telling someone who feels jilted that they should have learned to read is an abusive thing to say, and I chose the term that best captures that kind of abuse. It is not right to tell someone that their feelings are invalidated because they can't read.

Nope. Absolutelly no one here is a victim. People may be dissatisfied. But CR is delivering on everything they promised. Some people may not think it's the best way to do it. but none of that makes someone a victim. Also, saying that someone should learn how to read because they didn't understand what was really happening in the KS is rude. But being rude is not the same as being abusive. Your feelings, as I said before, are valid. That doesn't change reality though. Having your feeling hurt sucks, but doesn't make you a victim (at least not by default).