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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6758342" data-attributes="member: 37579">You're making a value assumption on my post. I love kickstarter and agree with what you say. I just imagine some companies, like Reaper minis, probably didn't need to do Bones 2 let alone Bones 3 and could just trust the audience to buy the minis if they hyped their release. Kickstarter wasn't needed. But doing so gave people who wants to buy more a better deal, which is awesome. And I like having more minis and faster. It's just worth admitting that those sales might have come at the expense of some traditional retail sales. It's not unfair, its just life and sometimes life has consequences.Like Amazon really. The convenience and better price outweighs the costs to other businesses... Sometimes.But markets and businesses change all the time. That's life. My FLGS just went under and the Canadian exchange rate was as much to blame as anything.That said, if a company that *can* afford to publish without Kickstarter and is focused on supporting stores decides to eschew Kickstarter for the desire not to competition with buisnesses, that makes sense and I support that decision. Kickstarter is just another alternative, another option. As for WotC... They have no shipping department to handle mass distribution and don't take money directly. Financials are handled through Hasbro accounting. They'd be a terrible company to handle a kickstarter. Too many people trying to coordinate and partners hire to handle duties. It'd be terrible.</blockquote>

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