I'm really interested in seeing conclusions drawn later on about the effect of this kind of preemptive crowd-based funding on the developers themselves and thei

I'm really interested in seeing conclusions drawn later on about the effect of this kind of preemptive crowd-based funding on the developers themselves and their process. Obviously there is a difference in state of mind between a team working on a game with nothing but hopes and anxieties that their game will be well-received and sell, versus a team whose customers have paid them before development has even started. The big question, of course, is how the team will handle it. Maybe they'll become overconfident, or feel less motivated to succeed than otherwise. Or, on the other hand, maybe they'll feel unpressured and able to exercise creativity more freely and naturally without those worries.