Reply To: (KS) Ninja Division/Soda Pop out of money for Super Dungeon Explore: Legends

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We’ve seen (board)games companies fail without kickstarter too …

As for ND affecting kickstarter. To that I say : nope.
There are still thousands of projects from a wide variety of creators.

Besides … what the heck could that platform to prevent any of this anyway ?

The reason companies have multiple projects at any given time is because they can’t tell them to go home for the rest of the year once their part of the process is completed. As a result the artists and sculptors will be assigned to ‘the next big thing’.

It’s either that or an industry that hires and fires entire departments like the video game industry tends to do.

You can’t stop people from overspending and mismanaging anything. And the amount of luck needed to get enough momentum to become the next GW is infinite.

Even a company as big as GW has had problems staying afloat in recent years.
This industry is very competitive and has to deal with a customer base that is not exactly predictable.

The only difference between Kickstarters and post-release issues is that it is a bit more publicly visible and it happens within our hobby so the visibility is extra.

Any company with management problems is going to fail once their luck runs out and they fail to fix the source of their problems.