Does anyone have Kickstarter regrets?

[dead]

I’m thinking regrets after the campaign was fulfilled rather than overdue Kickstarters. There’s a separate thread on that here.

Maybe you’ve been caught up in the hype and you’ve put down your hard-earned money but then, once the product is delivered, you wish you hadn’t of done it.

This might be because you realise afterwards you’ll never run the game - you just got too excited at the time and didn’t think it through.

Or, it might be that the final product delivered was of such poor quality that you regret putting your trust in the company to begin with. Technically, the campaign was “fulfilled” but what was delivered was either poorly executed, unpolished or just not what was expected.

I think I am guilty of being caught up in the hype; so I’m much more wary now with Kickstarters. Though it can be hard to refrain sometimes when they offer enticing limited-time, early-bird offers.

 

[Morrus]

Not really. But then I don't buy stuff like that if I can't easily afford it, and I know that 90% of what I buy will be just to read and collect and not play because time is a finite resource, while new TTRPGs apparently are not!

[Edit--actually, yes. Kickstarters whose products were available to purchase before I'd received my rewards. I'd have been better off not backing the Kickstarter and just buying it outright. Also, those whose products are available immediately after the Kickstarter ends for the same reason. Backing the Kickstarter needs to give me a benefit.]

 

[darjr]

Yea, I regret I didn’t back Dolmenwood.

seriously though there are a couple. Not hype but ones I probably didn’t need to join the crowdfund for.

 

[MGibster]

I regret my Savage Worlds Rifts Kickstarter. I received everything promised, so I've got no hard feelings against Palladium or PEG, Inc. It's just that running a Rifts game, even in Savage Worlds, is difficult, and I only played one campaign before deciding I wasn't going to run any more.

 

[Longspeak]

Not gaming, but I was always sad this one didn't fund.


For real though, not regret, but I've had a few that underwhelmed. Mostly though, like Morrus, a lot is for reading and collecting, or for me, inspiration for my games even if I don't play the product.

ETA: missed the link somehow.

 

[Retreater]

Stuff I'm never going to use: Savage Rifts (and all expansions), Savage Pathfinder (and all expansions), Draw Steel, Kingdoms and Warfare, Strongholds and Followers, several Battlezoo Pathfinder products (Dragons, Strange and Unusual), Shadowdark Western Reaches.
I probably have more. I backed a lot of stuff I'm never going to use.

 

[DammitVictor]

I regret not backing more Kickstarters than I regret backing. The only Kickstarter I wanted to back, that I really would have regretted, dropped when I was homeless-- and that's a story everyone knows.

I regret backing a lot of Kickstarters and BackerKits because I'm on a very limited income and have the impulse control of a small child. I've usually forgotten them by the time they're fulfilled, and I feel much better when they arrive.

 

[TheHand]

Nothing too serious, but I maybe shouldn’t have backed as many Reaper Bones Kickstarters as I did. I don’t think I’ll ever get all those mini’s painted!

 

[MNblockhead]

I bought so much physical play aids, terrain, and minis when I first got back into TTRPGs when 5th ed was release and most of it never got used. But as part of downsizing and moving, I've given it all to folks I know will get use out of them so I don't feel too bad. More of long-delayed gifts than wasting money.

There are many books for games I've back that I haven't, and may never, use in play, but I still enjoy reading them.

 

[sevenbastard]

Not sure why I backed the Avatar Last Airbender RPG. Im am never going to play it and i dont think I ever read much of it. I probably watched 10 episodes of the show.

I mean sometimes I back small projects that im on the fence about but figure giving money to a independent creator is worth it. But Avatar didn't need my pledge.

And a lot of the reaper Bones kickstarters. Not opened, in boxes moved from Connecticut to SoCal to NoCal to Washington.