Quote Originally Posted by wiggyx View Post
My only complaint is people complaining about it. Otherwise I think it's a great tool that is made possible only by way of the web and has helped out a ton of people with great ideas, but not much in the way of bringing them to fruition.
This. You guys complaining that it's messed up for a company to go on Kickstarter (in the RCR thread, not here) don't seem to understand the realities of business. Being a business doesn't automatically mean you have a war chest full of money to fund games with. A company like Wayforward has the new Shantae on Kickstarter because there is no other way to fund full production on a legit Shantae game; they should know, they've been trying to SINCE THE GAMECUBE DAYS to find the money to make it, and no publisher wants to take that risk (and, I assume, they haven't been able to save up enough money to do it on their own). Video games are REALLY EXPENSIVE to make, and if you don't have a hit on your hands, they can lose you a lot of money.

The beauty of Kickstarter is that you can bring risky games that would otherwise not exist to life because the investors you attract are more interested in playing your game than they are in making money off of it. For the first time ever you can get paid to make a game that makes $0 in profit, and that's amazing.