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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9702648" data-attributes="member: 18">I think depending on the project that can make complete sense. Especially if you're not interested in anything but the final product and completely trust the company to do a good job. With X Without Number products, for example, I'm not interested until it's done (I mean, to be fair I'm done buying those until the author realizes AI art isn't okay, but we'll see with the next one he KSes).And the cold fact is companies have long since realized that if you do offer early access, you get more people signing up, especially if you're asking for feedback/direction on something new. That's a major part of why they tend to offer it. I've also seen significant/important changes come out of that feedback sometimes.Here the situation was, AFAIK, basically unprecedented (maybe it isn't and I just haven't seen this before, of course), in that we were told there'd be regular updates (good) and that we'd get fewer of them than Patrons, but they'd be more polished (weird but okay). However, we didn't really get what I'd call regular updates, and they certainly weren't "more polished" in any sense that I can recognise. Combine that with deeply lacklustre stretch goals (a VTT no-one asked for, and which seems like it will be a PITA for everyone including MCDM, and a setting booklet which it's slightly unclear to me if we're even getting, or just like, it's allowing them to write it and then sell it), and a general vibe that Backerkit Backers are, at best, an afterthought, and I don't see much to like.Honestly I'm personally KSing a lot less stuff than I used to, because so much more of it gets made anyway, and in general, at least for the products I've been interested in, the stretch goals and additional benefits from actually KS'ing have been getting worse and worse for years, to the point where in some cases the product you can eventually buy in Drivethru is about the same price and has exactly the same material as if you'd KS'd the project.</blockquote>

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