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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 8866773" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>To be fair, however, economy of scale is important. When you back some someone on patreon, you are generally supporting a single creator or a small publisher. You pay more because you like their content and it is something that might not get made otherwise. Often there is a small community that builds around it and at certain tiers their make be customized rewards.  With Kickstarter, you are helping fund a particular product to get made, often with crazy high production values that you would never get with a mass-produced product. The expectations and relationship between the creators and customers is quite different than that in retail transactions. And you do see some minor blowback on larger companies that use Kickstarter and Patreon more like retail transactions (subscriptions and pre-sales).  I don't have an issue with it, but when it comes to major publishers, I tend to just wait until the product is available to purchase on-line rather than back on Kickstarter or support via Patreon. If I'm confident that the product is going to be published anyway and if I don't feel that I'm supporting someone who might not otherwise be able to bring their vision to fruition, then I can just wait and see if I like the final product and but it when it is generally available.</p></blockquote><p></p>