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<blockquote data-quote="Electrik Wizard" data-source="post: 8640909" data-attributes="member: 6789690"><p>The attraction of Crowdfunding is that developers aren't beholden to investors; only to people who're actually buying the product they want to make. And the fact that it also serves as its own marketing; if nobody wants to back your project then you don't have to waste your time actually creating a product that isn't going to sell. You just need to come in with a pitch and then ask people to pay you to do the work.</p><p></p><p>Some companies, especially ones who're new to KickStarter, over promise; especially when it comes to stretch goals. They often don't really taking into account how much the extras will cost in the hopes of that extra cash grab, or the amount of time they could add to their estimates. (Stretch goals will only get the backer so far for promoting a product anyway, since not all of them will even be applicable to the reward tier you've gone for, so it may not be the incentive).</p><p></p><p>In the case of less experienced companies you can usually add 50% to the estimated delivery date.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if this is the case with the project you backed (I don't particularly like the 'dungeon dudes' so I wasn't really interested their project) but don't forget; there's been a global health crisis that has delayed work on most projects, not to mention the fact that international shipping companies are still dealing with the back up from when the Suez Canel was blocked by the Evergreen.</p><p></p><p>Even the more experienced companies have had huge delays on their projects.</p><p></p><p>People hate Amazon because they pay people slave wages to work in terrible conditions while bending over backwards for your next day delivery, and because these shady practices are running smaller businesses who treat their staff more fairly out of the game.</p><p><u>You</u> hate kickstarter for accepting of a form of currency you don't even have to use (and seems to be at the end of its lifespan anyway) and because of delays nobody could have predicted in <em>creating </em>a product from scratch, writing, proofing, editing it, illustrating, printing, delivering (internationally), and trying to do this with a budget they may not be able to increase from their original campaign without giving up something in return to an investor or some such.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Electrik Wizard, post: 8640909, member: 6789690"] The attraction of Crowdfunding is that developers aren't beholden to investors; only to people who're actually buying the product they want to make. And the fact that it also serves as its own marketing; if nobody wants to back your project then you don't have to waste your time actually creating a product that isn't going to sell. You just need to come in with a pitch and then ask people to pay you to do the work. Some companies, especially ones who're new to KickStarter, over promise; especially when it comes to stretch goals. They often don't really taking into account how much the extras will cost in the hopes of that extra cash grab, or the amount of time they could add to their estimates. (Stretch goals will only get the backer so far for promoting a product anyway, since not all of them will even be applicable to the reward tier you've gone for, so it may not be the incentive). In the case of less experienced companies you can usually add 50% to the estimated delivery date. I don't know if this is the case with the project you backed (I don't particularly like the 'dungeon dudes' so I wasn't really interested their project) but don't forget; there's been a global health crisis that has delayed work on most projects, not to mention the fact that international shipping companies are still dealing with the back up from when the Suez Canel was blocked by the Evergreen. Even the more experienced companies have had huge delays on their projects. People hate Amazon because they pay people slave wages to work in terrible conditions while bending over backwards for your next day delivery, and because these shady practices are running smaller businesses who treat their staff more fairly out of the game. [U]You[/U] hate kickstarter for accepting of a form of currency you don't even have to use (and seems to be at the end of its lifespan anyway) and because of delays nobody could have predicted in [I]creating [/I]a product from scratch, writing, proofing, editing it, illustrating, printing, delivering (internationally), and trying to do this with a budget they may not be able to increase from their original campaign without giving up something in return to an investor or some such. [/QUOTE]
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