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> The entire crowdfunding platform is absurdity The totality of this statement is what's absurd. There's some good stuff on Kickstarter etc., but Sturgeon's Law applies: 90% of everything is crap.
No, it's crowdfunding itself that is absurd: You are literally pre-paying full price for a small chance that a product will actually be shipped to you. Imagine Amazon, but instead of next-day delivery you get next-year delivery and there's a 90% chance your product won't be delivered at all: That's what crowdfunding is . Traditionally, when funding a product, investors got a portion of the earnings to offset their ri…
This depends on the project. Board games, RPG books, and food products ship just fine. Some of the best food I've had has come courtesy of Kickstarter campaigns.
Computer games are hit or miss. They all end up late, but I got'em. My glowing plants are apparently never coming (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/whatever...), but other than that, and with the exception of some fudge that was quite mediocre, I've been happy with my Kickstarter purchases, and Kickstarter has allowed me access to types of products that otherwise would not have existed.