Reply To: Darkest Dungeon: The Board Game – Shipping surcharge

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> As such I’d argue that we shouldn’t blame companies, but also look at us as backers to see if we really did our job at analyzing if the project could work with the given parameters.

Now there’s an understatement. Not once have I seen a KS backer ask for sources of funding before pledging, not to mention how much shipping is subsidized. My poster child concern is outside funding. *We* already know that the funding goal can’t be trusted, and we know even less if the project is relying on funds from outside the project. That’s why I now yellow-flag (should have done it much earlier in hindsight) any project whose creator doesn’t already have an evergreen (usually retail) product — which sorta defeats the spirit of crowdfunding. Also importantly is the mysterious “investor” that some projects have and others don’t — backers are pretty much never told during funding. Investors can foul the project by not actually providing promised funds (eg. Fairy Tale Battle Royale), or having too much control over a project (some boardgame even had a Board of Directors).

Can’t wait for that fume-free 3D printer.