Reply To: Kickstarter rising costs, the end to big box games What will the future be ?

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The ones that are really suffering are projects who really counted on “producing cheap outside their own country” and then importing it to send out. That’s currently a very expensive method. And it takes longer because China is still very much shutting places down once C-19 comes around.

Smaller, more local projects (or pure digital ones) still work out fine. Yes, even locally produced stuff may end up being more expensive (or lessen the profit margin for the producers) due to over all rising shipping costs but not to that degree.

There will be a shift to “produce in house” again for the foreseeable future I think. After that we’ll shift back to “on demand from cheap-land”.