ShadowDenizen
Explorer
. A week or a month from now, nobody will remember this. Specifically, they won't remember it when they next look at a cool-sounding kickstarter.
Well, that's a sad, (but probably accurate) assessment of the situation.
. A week or a month from now, nobody will remember this. Specifically, they won't remember it when they next look at a cool-sounding kickstarter.
Projects should have milestones as well as rewards, these are accountabilities that the project is not being mis-managed.
When a project reaches only a 100% it should be expected that they still might fail, but 300%? That for me spells immediate project success and more.
Budget alone does not mean a project will succeed. There are problems you cannot fix by throwing money at them. Creative differences, or having a key individual die, or go into rehab, or something, can kill a project even if you have tons of money.
I understand that, but the project with bigger budget is still more likely to succeed than fail.
By requiring the project to refund money for failed projects, this means that the project basically must NOT spend the KS money, in case the project fails.
That kind of defeats the point of going to somebody else to help fund the project.
Now some may think that what I just described is a good thing, but the side effect wouldn't just hit failed projects. It impacts how a successful project (that is one that "would" have succeeded). If my project requires $20,000 to print and ship, and I don't personally have $20,000, and I effectively can't spend the KS money until I ship the product, then I don't have the money to do the project. KS has neutralized itself out of the business of funding projects.
Instead, the only people who would be safe to use KS, are people who already have money to pay for the project themselves, but want to secure buyers (backers) before they start the project. As this Amy Palmer has apparently done with an album, despite her having the ability to record it herself without KS.
I understand that, but the project with bigger budget is still more likely to succeed than fail.