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How many heists have been pulled off over video games on kickstarter so far? When will the chickens come home to roost?

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• adventured 10y ago
  Isn't that a bit like asking how many scams have been pulled off in dozens of segments of the $18.5 trillion US economy in general? Consider just the scale of real estate related fraud for example, whether on the consumer side or the commercial developer side etc. The video game industry is very large. That there would be millions of dollars worth of scams in it annually (of one variety or another), would be entirely expected.
  • Pica_soO 10y ago
    With or without starcitizen?
• TillE 10y ago
  Almost none? There have been a handful of mismanaged failures, but I can't think of a prominent successful scam. Dollar for dollar, probably 99% of Kickstarter backers of video games get a finished product.
• meowface 10y ago
  Making a good video game is hard. There have been several instances of Kickstarter-backed games not living up to the potential or being particularly disappointing, but this is also often the case for games funded privately by massive corporations or investors (often far exceeding the funds of a typical Kickstarter project). Very few instances of willful scams, as far as I know. Probably not any significantly more than other kinds of Kickstarter scams.