Kickstarter

[tordeck]

I'm looking forward to WWX. Looks awesome.

[Imaginos]

I wish I had stayed in on my striker level for Dreadball. Would like to get that set.

[HarlequinZero]

My problem is that everyone and their grandmother is running a Kickstarter recently. It's easy to get sucked into the excitement so you've got to be careful about what you put in for and how much. (At least me.) There's like 3 or 4 KSs I think are interesting right now, but I'm sticking with just Wild West Exodus and Mutant Chronicles. Both seem to be pretty well thought out where they are actually trying to develop their games and not just using KS as a storefront. I am a bit tempted by Godslayer, but I just have too much fantasy stuff and I'm still waiting for the reboot of Confrontation 3.5.

[MEDEVL]

I think Kickstarter may have already, or at the very least is devolving into something that it was perhaps not meant to be. Rather than the pure independent financing medium that I think they were going for they are becoming just another way for manufacturers to direct market products to people. Not that that's wrong per say, but it certainly will deal another body blow to retailers in the hobby industrry, if not elsewhere. As badly as something as simple as Gencon releases, where game companies sell their newest release at Gencon a week or so before it hits retailers shelves, can hurt the bottom line of stores Kickstarter is pain on a much grander scale. Not that I'm blaming game companies either, just pointing out the rtends of an ever changing marketplace.