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

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I think this combination of events will reduce the number and scope of larger kickstarters for some considerable period of time. If the global situation stabilises, it won’t be soon. And in that time, lots of companies will struggle, especially those trying to work out how to pay for projects already under way.

One further factor though is that I get the sense that the number of massive kickstarters over the years has meant that at least part of the market is saturated due to people running out of storage space. This doesn’t mean that no one was buying them any more, but I think at least some were buying fewer of these games and/or were more likely to sell them on. No one has room for an endless number of these huge games with boxfulls of expansions. I think this combines with increased prices and unpredictability to tip people over the edge of ‘no more’…

Though the adjustment will be painful for parts of the industry, I guess we have to hope that there will be a shift to more local production as well as to a focus on quality over mass.