While I agree with the author that people need protection from themselves in some situations, Kickstartering ain't one of them. I paid $300 for a dev kit and f

While I agree with the author that people need protection from themselves in some situations, Kickstartering ain't one of them. I paid $300 for a dev kit and funded a company to do serious research on VR - the first serious research in oh, forever. They now employ John Carmack and Michael Abrash TOGETHER to work on this problem. This is AMAZING and the next few years are going to be AMAZING because of it. Honestly, it's stated in every Kickstarter campaign that things might not turn out the way you want. You may fund a game that never comes to fruition. There's specifically a section on "risks" that campaign starters are supposed to fill out so that backers are properly informed. We know this going in, that things might not turn out the way we hope. That doesn't mean the model is broken, and it doesn't mean we're all sheep. I want to take a screenshot of this article and add the classic political cartoon caption: "Christ, what an asshole."