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One issue with Kickstarter for games that are ready to play (at least for us) was that we want to give access to play the game the moment that you decide to give us some money. You can't really do that with kickstarter because you don't know if you will really get the money from each supporter. Due to this, and due to the fact that you need to be an American company (which can be gotten around, but is annoying) we de…
>Really the reason to use kickstarter.com is as an advertising platform. I'm not really sure if having their audience as well as our own would have benefited us in this case or not. I would also point out that Kickstarter acts as a trusted escrow service that will refund people's money if the project doesn't hit its funding targets.
I think most project creators would prefer to get the money instantly if they could do it without hurting the formula that makes kickstarter so successful. The escrow part of it being important so that customers not worry about backing a loser.