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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8518296" data-attributes="member: 2629">There is a difference between justice/legal rights and the legal concept of equity.  What is just may not be equitable, and what is equitable may require more than what is just.  Here, they asked people to help them create an animated special, that through the quality and quantity of support provided grew toi a season, which then (after being picked up by Amazon) was expanded to two seasons.  The original vision grew and they adapted on the fly, resulting in a less organized final result than was possible.   Critical Role has met every obligation they promised in the KS, and thus have seen this to a just end.  They did what was contractually required.However, equity (and equity does not just mean equal - we're talking about the legal concept where we address situations where the letter of the law is unfair)  doesn't seem to have been addressed here adequately to prevent people feeling 'ripped off'.  We've historically had 'Courts of Equity' in Western Cultures that said, "I know what the letter of the law says, but that is unfair because of things not contemplated - do better.'  They usually didn't provide money damages to people - they instead required actions that fixed the problem.  They would have been seen better if they'd found a way for every backer of a certain level or above to be able to see it.  Given their relationship with Twitch and Amazon, something should have been possible.  There are less than 90,000 backers.  65% of all Amazon users have Prime, and I'd tend to guess that most of the people that hand funds to throw here buy things on Amazon, and a disproportionate number of them (but certianly not all) have Prime.  If they polled the people without Ptime, I'm guessing it would be 20K people, but that could be off.  Amazon could have given them a bonus month of Prime Membership (on top of the normal free trial period you can get) to cover the first season (which was all that was supported/discussed by the KS), or they could have done a Subscription Only Twitch channel for it and gi ven free Subscription to it to the Backers, with add suppoort that compensated Amazon perhaps, and charged a huge amount to non-backers to be on it (also going to Amazon, perhaps).  They could have done better.</blockquote>

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