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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6761530" data-attributes="member: 42582">If the question is "Do kickstarter projects compete in the same marketplace as retail stores" then questions of definitions and functionality are mostly irrelevant. What matters is whether people are spending money on kickstarter projects to satisfy demand that, otherwise, they would satisfy by spending money in a retail store.To provide some analogies: the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is not a commercial broadcaster, but a public one. That doesn't mean that commercial broadcasters (particularly in Australia) don't get angry at the ABC's extensive provision of free online content, which they (quite reasonably) see as undercutting their own paywalled offerings.The fact that a thrift store is a charitable enterprise, whose customers feel that they are not only acquiring goods but supporting a worthy cause, doesn't mean that it is not in competition with other retailers of the products sold in the thrift store.Etc. Etc.People only have a finite amount of money they are going to spend on RPGs. If they spend it backing kickstarter projects, that is likely to have a detrimental impact on retail store sales.</blockquote>