Don't know about this project, but the problem with kickstarter is that once you back a project is no longer your money, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's right there on their TOS: they are not responsible for the project, nor to provide ways to keep the project's creators from running away with the backers' money. This "give money and something MAY happen, eventually" model is going to collapse on itself…
> This "give money and something MAY happen, eventually" model is going to collapse on itself. I'm not so sure, crowdfunding is certainly very attractive for people that have a track record of delivering but a consumer base that is to small for traditional publishing/production processes. Think Double Fine [1], Harebrained Schemes [2], Order of the Stick [3]. The people behind these projects have a clear, public trac…
All those cases could have been just as successful in any other platform, or even raising the money by themselves, because they have a huge fan base.
What I'm talking about is the other 99% of projects at kickstarters, the ones that weren't created by star-devs with decades of experience in the industry. Of this 99% the majority is made by anything from people without enough experience to complete idiots who only know how to make a good presentation. These projects will get the money and deliver nothing, the backers wont get their money back, further undermining the crowdfunding model.
Eventually one of the "big ones" will underdeliver too (like diaspora) and after that NOBODY will trust this system.