RPG NEWS: Kickstarter Isn’t Accountable, Loves Money, Chump!

[JL Duncan]

In a timeframe just less than two years a “certain person” was allowed to “complete” eight (8) Kickstarter campaigns under two different entities: Ken Whitman Games & D20 Entertainment. As many in the gaming community well know, these campaigns didn’t generate much beyond a double handful of broken promises and gamer angst.

As far as Kickstarter is concerned (which it doesn’t seem to be) a project is “complete” once it has reached its funding goal. Beyond this and whether the project creator delivers, is not their concern. While I can certainly understand the failure to deliver once or twice, perhaps concerning an overzealous creator, at what point should Kickstarter take some responsibility? Apparently, never. Certainly, the creator must pass some sort of criteria to post a campaign? Also not Kickstarter's concern, is that the same person can launch eight (8) projects and never fully deliver. Not a single one of them, as in 0-8. Not only does Kickstarter not think it’s accountable, it’s not accountable x8.

The full article is on my blog: http://withinthedungeon.blogspot.com/2016/10/rpg-news-kickstarter-isnt-accountable.html