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I'm pretty sure "buying a product" wasn't how it was presented when I first looked at it... in any case, it's clearly an attempt to get around the rules; nobod

by jbellis 14y ago

I'm pretty sure "buying a product" wasn't how it was presented when I first looked at it... in any case, it's clearly an attempt to get around the rules; nobody is seriously interested in buying a My First RPG Maker Game on its merit. Tuition is a good example; this is exactly like "pay my Full Sail tuition and I'll give you copies of the games I make there," on a smaller scale.

EliRivers 14y ago
No, you're not buying a product. You're funding the creation of a product. If the kickstarter in question chooses to give people that product, that's lovely, but it's not what you're paying for. " this is exactly like "pay my Full Sail tuition and I'll give you copies of the games I make there," on a smaller scale." No, it is not. What's the product there? What product am I paying money to fund the creation of? What do I read about on the kickstarter page that the course is a necessary part of creating? No product.
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- waterlesscloud 14y ago
  So you can fund literally anything. I could fund a car as long as I produced a book about buying and owning the car.
  - EliRivers 14y ago
    You cannot fund literally anything. Check the rules. "We allow creative projects in the worlds of Art, Comics, Dance, Design, Fashion, Film, Food, Games, Music, Photography, Publishing, Technology, and Theater. Everything on Kickstarter must be a project. A project has a clear goal, like making an album, a book, or a work of art. A project will eventually be completed, and something will be produced by it." If you're writing a book about a car that falls into the above, and you put on your kickstarter page that you need to buy the car in order to write the book, that's within the rules. Many, many, MANY kickstarters make it clear that they will be buying physical goods in order to create the product. If you want to do this, by all means go for it. I wouldn't be surprised if people decided not to fund it because they think you're trying to get a free car out of them, but purchase of goods (and services) with the kickstarter funds to help make the product is pretty much the whole point of kickstarter. In your case, I wouldn't be surprised if kickstarter themselves decided to squelch your project on the heavy suspicion that you don't really have a passion for a creating a book about the car, but that's up to them.
  - jasonlotito 14y ago
    Or you can fund trips and clothing and just take photos. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annafischer/the-wild-places?ref=category http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annafischer/the-wild-pla...

by jbellis 14y ago

EliRivers 14y ago

No, you're not buying a product. You're funding the creation of a product. If the kickstarter in question chooses to give people that product, that's lovely, but it's not what you're paying for. " this is exactly like "pay my Full Sail tuition and I'll give you copies of the games I make there," on a smaller scale." No, it is not. What's the product there? What product am I paying money to fund the creation of? What do I read about on the kickstarter page that the course is a necessary part of creating? No product.

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waterlesscloud 14y ago
So you can fund literally anything. I could fund a car as long as I produced a book about buying and owning the car.
- EliRivers 14y ago
  You cannot fund literally anything. Check the rules. "We allow creative projects in the worlds of Art, Comics, Dance, Design, Fashion, Film, Food, Games, Music, Photography, Publishing, Technology, and Theater. Everything on Kickstarter must be a project. A project has a clear goal, like making an album, a book, or a work of art. A project will eventually be completed, and something will be produced by it." If you're writing a book about a car that falls into the above, and you put on your kickstarter page that you need to buy the car in order to write the book, that's within the rules. Many, many, MANY kickstarters make it clear that they will be buying physical goods in order to create the product. If you want to do this, by all means go for it. I wouldn't be surprised if people decided not to fund it because they think you're trying to get a free car out of them, but purchase of goods (and services) with the kickstarter funds to help make the product is pretty much the whole point of kickstarter. In your case, I wouldn't be surprised if kickstarter themselves decided to squelch your project on the heavy suspicion that you don't really have a passion for a creating a book about the car, but that's up to them.
- jasonlotito 14y ago
  Or you can fund trips and clothing and just take photos. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annafischer/the-wild-places?ref=category http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annafischer/the-wild-pla...