Bingo. Some of these kickstarted games may make massive profits; others may make the game, and then fail to sell many boxed copies because there's no market. Th

Bingo. Some of these kickstarted games may make massive profits; others may make the game, and then fail to sell many boxed copies because there's no market. Then they've essentially broken even. That may be a success in their eyes - they got to make a new game, and the backers got a copy - but breaking even isn't "showing publishers what's what."