simple@piefed.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoStudio Camelia shuts down a year after raising €300,000 on Kickstarter to fund JRPG (Alzara Radiant Echoes)www.gamedeveloper.comexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squarekilleronthecorner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·14 days agoThe point of that is to allow risky projects the opportunity to succeed in comfortable financial circumstances. Cases like this abuse the system to scam people while using the ToS to skirt legal implications. So it is fraud, just dressed up as a gambling. That said, the outcome is the same: don’t waste your money on Kickstarter unless you’d be willing to use the same money at a blackjack table
The point of that is to allow risky projects the opportunity to succeed in comfortable financial circumstances.
Cases like this abuse the system to scam people while using the ToS to skirt legal implications. So it is fraud, just dressed up as a gambling.
That said, the outcome is the same: don’t waste your money on Kickstarter unless you’d be willing to use the same money at a blackjack table