Reply To: Ignition Core Games Is Teasing…Relic Knights?

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you just got to look on what KS was set out to do: enable people to create new stuff that wouldn’t get funding from anywhere else. Simple example in our hobby:

Company wants to make injection plastic sprue models. They know (or have a good estimate) on what tooling will cost. They can estimate how much material will cost. All costs added up divided by the target price of a sprue is the minimum they need to make to get the thing off the ground without loosing money. Add a generous overhead for fees, production problems and rise in material costs and you know what you KS goal is and how much you’ll charge the backers per sprue. That’s an easy one.

But then companies make mistakes. Stretch goals that aren’t well calculated and add more cost than they thought. Or even worse: setting the goal lower than what they need just to have the badge “funded in 24h” only to be left with less money than they need. And at that point such KS go down the drain. If you need 100k but you set your goal to 10k and end up with 50k you’re 50k short.

And then there is shipping and taxes and laws and what not.

Yeah, KS is a nice way to get things off the ground but you really need to look at the details for every project.