Comments on: Is Kickstarter Over-Saturated? https://www.geektopiagames.com/2018/12/04/how-oversaturated-is-kickstarter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-oversaturated-is-kickstarter We publish tabletop games, review others, and make stuff for Epic Duels and Unmatched Sat, 15 Dec 2018 15:49:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: roman https://www.geektopiagames.com/2018/12/04/how-oversaturated-is-kickstarter/comment-page-1/#comment-952 Sat, 15 Dec 2018 15:49:58 +0000 https://geektopiagames.com/?p=5109#comment-952 In reply to Behrooz ‘Bez’ Shahriari.

Thanks Bez! Congrats on reaching your KS goal. KS has gotten a lot more competitive but even now, it’s definitely not impossible.

]]> By: Behrooz 'Bez' Shahriari https://www.geektopiagames.com/2018/12/04/how-oversaturated-is-kickstarter/comment-page-1/#comment-948 Sat, 15 Dec 2018 10:50:00 +0000 https://geektopiagames.com/?p=5109#comment-948 Interesting article. If either of us were less lazy, we could check the actual stats for % funded, which would lend an objective air to our discussion. 😛

I think that KS is certainly becoming more competitive for the mid-tier projects (those needing 7k-20k).

I don’t know if my first project would fund today. How can I?

Most of the backers were either folk I knew or one step removed. I don’t think that would be very different today – I am lucky enough to have some people in my life that were able to spent £12-20 to support me and get a game they might really like.

I asked for £2.7k and only just funded in the final hours. So it was close enough that I might have failed had things been slightly different.

In the end though, does it really matter? If I was coming onto KS today and failed, I’d have tried a 2nd time I think.

General backers are more likely to want a review but I think that’s a great thing. New creators with amazing ideas (that publishers don’t want, or that the creator wants to retain absolute control of) can still get a review from some folk for free. The games will eventually be made.

The real problem is the amount of material waste. With so many thousands of games being created yearly, I despair at the amount of plastic being created and the amount of fuel used to transport those things, only to end up sitting on a shelf.

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