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1. Future of crowdfunding for miniatures – will Kickstarter eat the competition or do specialized platforms like Gamefound have a real chance of growth?

   Gamefound has grown a lot and based on what I’ve seen a lot of tabletop related crowdfunding projects are moving over there.  I suspect that there’s stuff that Kickstarter is doing that is allowing competing platforms to be a viable alternative.

   There are rumours (not yet confirmed) that Kickstarter may start to do something bitcoin related, which for me would kill the concept.
   The only ‘good’ change that Kickstarter recently has started to enforce is that it won’t allow companies to start a new campaign before shipping the active one, but there are loopholes that still would allow CoolMiniOrNot to ignore that …

2. Should big companies do “in house crowd funding” portals like Hasbro pulse?
   What Hasbro does is not crowdfunding.
   It is a pre-order portal disguised as a crowdfunding platform in order to exploit FOMO.
   I hate pre-orders and I’d argue that they should be made illegal. I see no need to own things on day 0 of release.
   I want to be able to buy stuff when I am ready to do so.
   At least with crowdfunding I can feel like I am helping the little guys achieve their dream projects.
   Hasbro & co don’t need my help and they’ve shown that they simply don’t give a damn about their product once it is released either.
3. What event (excluding C-19) had the biggest impact (positive or negative) on your crowdfunding spending habits?

The simple fact that I had to get external storage space just to store the stuff I had acquired through crowdfunding …
I’m trying to get myself to focus on as few games as possible, because the cold hard reality is that I can’t possibly play everything I like to collect.

I’m not quite sure how to do that as I have never been obsessed with a single theme.
Even my videogame collection ranges from platform games to rpg’s to simulators to strategy games …
My taste in music is equally wide (my pre-Spotify CD collection is almost a thousand … )

So for the moment I’ve told myself that I will do two things :
(1) Firefight / Deadzone as my main focus
(2) to not buy or retrieve from storage anything that isn’t related to that until it is done

I did *eh* ‘forget’ *ahem* that when I ordered a few bits and bobs from that new fangled moon game that everyone keeps talking about. I think that will be my secondary project so I can do something a bit different.

At some point in time I will have to find a way to organise my storage, because I’ve just dumped everything in boxes and got it to the external storage as fast as possible. Am trying not to think about that because I can already feel new projects wanting my attention (WW 2 desert war & east front … ). Never mind that I’ve got a few kickstarters incoming that may disrupt my plans if I’m not careful.

Anyways …