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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8663550" data-attributes="member: 19857">Yes. And most kickstarters aren't getting to the million dollar order.&nbsp; For example, Ulisses Spiele is doing their 8th Torg Kickstarter right now and it's at $160K with a little over 900 backers.&nbsp; 900 customers spread, potentially, around the world.&nbsp; A more popular campaign might be the Savage Rifts Atlantis supplement that they kickstarted a while back - that had 1800 customers buying it on Kickstarter.&nbsp; Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu 7th edition had under 4K people back their Kickstarter.&nbsp; Modiphius's Conan kickstarter had fewer than 5K people buying it.I think there's a lot of not understanding the numbers going on in that article.&nbsp; The &quot;big&quot; game companies that he names I suspect are operating on much smaller budgets than he thinks and the projects they're kickstarting are much riskier than he might think.&nbsp; Being able to reach an audience that is diffused across the country - or possibly around the world - and having it paid for in advance might be the only thing that gets the books published in the first place.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8663550, member: 19857"] Yes. And most kickstarters aren't getting to the million dollar order. For example, Ulisses Spiele is doing their 8th Torg Kickstarter right now and it's at $160K with a little over 900 backers. 900 customers spread, potentially, around the world. A more popular campaign might be the Savage Rifts Atlantis supplement that they kickstarted a while back - that had 1800 customers buying it on Kickstarter. Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu 7th edition had under 4K people back their Kickstarter. Modiphius's Conan kickstarter had fewer than 5K people buying it. I think there's a lot of not understanding the numbers going on in that article. The "big" game companies that he names I suspect are operating on much smaller budgets than he thinks and the projects they're kickstarting are much riskier than he might think. Being able to reach an audience that is diffused across the country - or possibly around the world - and having it paid for in advance might be the only thing that gets the books published in the first place. [/QUOTE]

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