I certainly understand the point of "crowd funding". > If you expect projects to be on time you couldn’t have picked a worse thing than Kickstarter... Take the

I certainly understand the point of "crowd funding". > If you expect projects to be on time you couldn’t have picked a worse thing than Kickstarter... Take the Double Fine Adventure: It will completely overshoot the estimated delivery date by a long, long time This is a problem with estimation. It's way worse to overshoot a delivery time than deliver before it. This is poor project planning. If I would have known this, I perhaps would not have backed Double Fine Adventures. > At Kickstarter you give money to something that might or might not work out in the end, but that will most definitely overshoot its estimated delivery date I disagree fundamentally. If a project is funded, then it is funded. The backer rewards aren't qualified with "if we're successful". They're "you will get ___". > if it doesn’t it’s a fluke. If I didn't get my backer reward, then they stole from me. If I do, and I get it late, then they poorly managed their delivery date.