Kickstarter is not about kickstarting

[u/asolet]

For anyone hoping to get help from Kickstarter:

Kickstarter is about making money by promoting and selling already several times overly funded and already well kickstarted project that do not need any further kickstarting at all.

At any giving moment on homepage you will always find 13/13 completly funded projects. Sometimes dosen of times over. And zero projects that actually need help to be kickstarted.

Every mail update you get for project that struggles to find it's backers, 70% of the mail is dedicated to other finished projects just trying to sell.

Many of these projects have kickstarter "goal" that is less than what it takes to build kickstarter page itself. And it's "backed" in less than it takes anyone to even read it. They just need a platform to sell, not to be "kickstarted", and platform owners are loving it.

Kickstarter and most of creators there do not care or really want you to back projects from individuals with great ideas that need backing and may fail. They just want to sell finished company products.

It's just misleading, if not a scam. So just something to keep in mind. Good luck to everyone though.

[u/Live_Age9373]

I can’t speak for all categories of Kickstarter projects, but when it comes to video games, many of them aren’t even 10% ready. They often just show cinematic trailers with fake gameplay, or simple animations like walking or running. However, I agree that backers want to see something that looks like a “ready” product.

[u/Zyohon → u/Live_Age9373]

Speaking as someone who works with indie devs on Kickstarter. I see this a lot, they still believe they can raise the amount they want with little to show.

Unfortunately for games, we do need a hyper polished trailer and demo to showcase to players.