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<blockquote data-quote="EccentricFlower" data-source="post: 230898" data-attributes="member: 5393"><p>You'll be disappointed because, as usual, my thinking is all muddled, with a lot of logical and emotional reactions all swearing at each other.</p><p></p><p>OK, so, either Kickstarter or the normal investment-in-a-product cycle is the same thing at core: Someone is investing in an idea because they think that investment will be rewarded. So why does one method (conventional investment) not bother me the way Kickstarter often does? I'm not sure, to be honest. Part of the problem may be because of the WAY in which I prefer to spend my money. If I'm going to "vote with my dollars" for a product I would rather it be a real, finished product - I prefer to endorse it by buying it, not by betting on it before it exists.</p><p></p><p>I think a lot of it comes down to risk. Not my risk; the risk to the "investor" in a Kickstarter is effectively nil the way they do it. It's the lack of *Farsight's* risk that bothers me. If they believed they could sell enough of this table to make back the licensing and development costs, then why not make it using the normal table dev cycle instead of a Kickstarter? It feels like a lack of confidence to me, and/or cowardice: Farsight dodging ALL risk on their part, including ultimately having to make a decision on whether to invest $$$ in making the table. They should already know whether enough people want the table for them to make a profit on it. Maybe that's an unreasonable expectation on my part. I don't know. I'm often unreasonable.</p><p></p><p>Now, it may be that Farsight thinks the table could be profitable but simply does not have enough cash on hand to pay the licensing costs. If that's so, then Farsight has a lot less money floating around than I'd like to believe - if they're fussing over game budgets as low as $60-70K then they are running on a shoestring, and if a company is running on a shoestring, I start to worry about how much longer the product will be around.</p><p></p><p>I have come to accept that there are some Kickstarters which have to happen because conservatism of investment is such that the product would never find funding through normal means. I also don't mind Kickstarters which are for projects that fall outside the normal scope of the company's operations - I've given to a "here's some swag we think you'd like, but it's not part of our usual product line and we can't budget for it, so we're doing it this way" Kickstarter, and I've also given to a "we are facing disaster and there's no way we can keep going unless we get emergency funding to replace our entire ancient heating system" one ... those, to me, are different.</p><p></p><p>But this is something in Farsight's normal line which you'd think they would be willing and able to fund normally, in a perfect world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EccentricFlower, post: 230898, member: 5393"] You'll be disappointed because, as usual, my thinking is all muddled, with a lot of logical and emotional reactions all swearing at each other. OK, so, either Kickstarter or the normal investment-in-a-product cycle is the same thing at core: Someone is investing in an idea because they think that investment will be rewarded. So why does one method (conventional investment) not bother me the way Kickstarter often does? I'm not sure, to be honest. Part of the problem may be because of the WAY in which I prefer to spend my money. If I'm going to "vote with my dollars" for a product I would rather it be a real, finished product - I prefer to endorse it by buying it, not by betting on it before it exists. I think a lot of it comes down to risk. Not my risk; the risk to the "investor" in a Kickstarter is effectively nil the way they do it. It's the lack of *Farsight's* risk that bothers me. If they believed they could sell enough of this table to make back the licensing and development costs, then why not make it using the normal table dev cycle instead of a Kickstarter? It feels like a lack of confidence to me, and/or cowardice: Farsight dodging ALL risk on their part, including ultimately having to make a decision on whether to invest $$$ in making the table. They should already know whether enough people want the table for them to make a profit on it. Maybe that's an unreasonable expectation on my part. I don't know. I'm often unreasonable. Now, it may be that Farsight thinks the table could be profitable but simply does not have enough cash on hand to pay the licensing costs. If that's so, then Farsight has a lot less money floating around than I'd like to believe - if they're fussing over game budgets as low as $60-70K then they are running on a shoestring, and if a company is running on a shoestring, I start to worry about how much longer the product will be around. I have come to accept that there are some Kickstarters which have to happen because conservatism of investment is such that the product would never find funding through normal means. I also don't mind Kickstarters which are for projects that fall outside the normal scope of the company's operations - I've given to a "here's some swag we think you'd like, but it's not part of our usual product line and we can't budget for it, so we're doing it this way" Kickstarter, and I've also given to a "we are facing disaster and there's no way we can keep going unless we get emergency funding to replace our entire ancient heating system" one ... those, to me, are different. But this is something in Farsight's normal line which you'd think they would be willing and able to fund normally, in a perfect world. [/QUOTE]
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