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Wonder how much of this 1 billion actually successfully resulted in backer rewards and wasn't indefinitely borrowed/outright stolen. Just recently a webcomic ar
by Grue3 13y ago
Wonder how much of this 1 billion actually successfully resulted in backer rewards and wasn't indefinitely borrowed/outright stolen. Just recently a webcomic artist John Campbell who raised $50000 wrote a long screed telling his backers that they will never get the book they paid for. And a lot of projects get completely forgotten about after they get fully funded.
- ecopoesis 13y agoI realize it's hip to bash on Kickstarter, but in my experience it works out well all the time. I've backed 28 funded projects: of those only one is currently past their delivery date (the Almond+) and they've been very good about updates. Other projects have also been late, sometimes by six months, but they all get delivered. I tend to think of Kickstarter schedules like I think of software developer schedules: double it and add 3. Planning is hard, and for a lot of the creators it there first attempt at a large project.
- jonknee 13y agoAlmost certainly an astonishingly high percentage of it. You hear about the bad stuff, but by and large it works. A lot of projects get delayed and some don't work out as expected, but very few could be classified as "stolen". Even in your example, many people did get the book. No one got the book they paid for since that's not how Kickstarter works (it's not a store).