Whatever kickstarter was meant to be it is clearly being used for nothing more than preorders far in advance and you don't even have a guarantee you will ever g

Whatever kickstarter was meant to be it is clearly being used for nothing more than preorders far in advance and you don't even have a guarantee you will ever get the product you preorder. In exchange for that risk and tieing up your money for such a long time before the product is available you possibly get a product that might not otherwise exist. The truth is you don't really know if it wouldn't have existed without kickstarter or not.