I don't really agree with this. They promise to give me a thing (or multiple things) in exchange for my money. Yeah, there are tchotchkes for most projects and there are 'interesting' updates, but the reason you (the generic you) put down your $20 is to get the thing at the end of the day.
I get that they say that you're not buying a product, but one can call a tail a leg and it doesn't necessarily fit, yeah? If it was really about just backing-a-product, I'd think everyone involved, including project creators, would be a lot more careful than they are with their wording.
> People that are upset at the project "being late" completely are people that are treating KickStarter merely as a pre-ordering system.
I don't agree here, either. They're people who expected the project pitches to be realistic measures of time-to-completion. My clients aren't happy when I blow estimates, either. They may still be happy with the final project, but that doesn't mean it's okay for me to hork an estimate.
I don't really agree with this. They promise to give me a thing (or multiple things) in exchange for my money. Yeah, there are tchotchkes for most projects and there are 'interesting' updates, but the reason you (the generic you) put down your $20 is to get the thing at the end of the day.
I get that they say that you're not buying a product, but one can call a tail a leg and it doesn't necessarily fit, yeah? If it was really about just backing-a-product, I'd think everyone involved, including project creators, would be a lot more careful than they are with their wording.
> People that are upset at the project "being late" completely are people that are treating KickStarter merely as a pre-ordering system.
I don't agree here, either. They're people who expected the project pitches to be realistic measures of time-to-completion. My clients aren't happy when I blow estimates, either. They may still be happy with the final project, but that doesn't mean it's okay for me to hork an estimate.