@joebones5000 said:
@pyro1245 said:
@joebones5000 said:
@pyro1245 said:
@joebones5000 said:
I'll never understand why people crowd fund things. If I am giving you money for the development of a product, I am an investor. I want to own part of it.
There are crowd funding projects that let you invest... although they won't let you invest for a small amount of money. For example as of writing this you can invent into Wasteland 3 in chunks of $1000, and there is currently ~$500K left of investment opportunity.
For normal people you can give $33 and receive a copy of the game for slightly less than its retail price; because you trust the developer and believe they will deliver a solid end product. That way the dev does not have to seek funding elsewhere, for example: a large publisher that will force their will onto the project with due dates and required multiplayer or some shit like that.
Pretty simple, yeah?
It's always been simple, but also stupid. Why should I invest in a company for just a copy of the game when I can let others do that instead and just buy the game somewhere if it's released, and probably at a bigger discount? Stupid investment. I don't know about the rest of the world, but dumb stuff like this is why 60% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their bank accounts.
I think you're still not understanding.....
Understand, perfectly. You wrote what you wanted to say in your previous post, even in bold. It's still stupid to crowd fund.
You say you understand but you have yet to provide an argument as to why you think it is stupid to crowd fund.
"Why should I invest in a company for just a copy of the game when I can let others do that instead and just buy the game somewhere if it's released, and probably at a bigger discount?"
This statement right here completely misses the point.
"I don't know about the rest of the world, but dumb stuff like this is why 60% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their bank accounts."
Oh come on.... You just come off as a bitter person who must have gotten burned by a crowd-funding project in the past. How is this statement even applicable? What's your point? And why are you concerned with where other people spend their money?
Just saying something is stupid doesn't make it so, but repeatedly saying it without providing any good arguments...well that speaks for itself.
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