Reply To: Soloman Kane KS about to arrive, and I couldn't care less!

[onlyonepinman 18062xp 3]

@cdn41 it’s not as much of  a gamble as you might think.  I have backed, to date, 81 kickstarters (I won’t disclose the total amount) and that’s just the ones that are on my account.  I quite often go halves on a pledge with my brother (my primary gaming buddy) and for the price of two pledges we can get a single pledge with add ons.  So I am invested in several more kickstarters above the 81 I have backed myself.  To date, only 3 out of the 81 have failed representing a total of £140 over the course of 8 years (first kickstarter backed in 2013).  That £140 is more than offset by the savings made by backing things on kickstarter.  The worst that usually happens is that projects don’t deliver on the dates they originally estimate but if you go into it expecting that they won’t actually hit their deadlines it ceases to be an issue.

@limburger of the 81 projects I have backed there’s only one that I regret backing (route 666: devil’s run) and even then I actually found a good home for it so it didn’t go to waste.  When people say they have lost interest in a game by the time they get it, that probably means they weren’t interested in the game, they were excited by the idea of a game ( a bit like when people think they’re in love but they’re actually in love with the idea of being in love).  It’s like, OK, so this game I backed 3 years ago has just turned up; 3 years ago I wanted to play it but now I don’t. Why?  What’s changed in 3 years?  The only thing that’s changed is that there is no longer anyone telling you that you want to play it