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Ryaomon posted:Poeple who already have millions upon millions of dollars should not do a kickstarter. Well, if everyone agrees with you then their kickstarter will not make any money, so the issue will solve itself, won't it. VVVVV will do, wasn't trying to stir up poo poo VVVVV Ashenai has a new favorite as of 22:00 on May 8, 2013 |
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Ashenai posted:Well, if everyone agrees with you then their kickstarter will not make any money, so the issue will solve itself, won't it. Please stop it or you're going to take this thread straight to poo poo town over a worthless topic.
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Who the gently caress thinks of making a $10 Kickstarter project before putting up a page on their site with a button to donate money to this thing? Oh wait the donation button would probably take more in fees herp derp how stupid of me.
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Ryaomon posted:Poeple who already have millions upon millions of dollars should not do a kickstarter. Should they not be able to sell things in stores either? If you kickstart the Veronica Mars movie, you get a copy of the movie. If you kickstart the PA podcast, you get early access to the podcasts. If that's a product/service that you want, give them money. Who cares?
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Elissia posted:Who the gently caress thinks of making a $10 Kickstarter project before putting up a page on their site with a button to donate money to this thing? Oh wait the donation button would probably take more in fees herp derp how stupid of me. Nah it probably wouldn't cost more, but a $10 kickstarter (or a kickstareter in general) that's an excuse for selling merchandise comes with a whole lot more attention.
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 Translation: We'll take what we can get from you sheep.
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I see their point though. I mean, what would a reasonable goal for a podcast be? The Retronauts guys were more or less doing it from scratch and they set their goal at $12000 to get equipment and so on. It sounds like the PA folks already have most of the equipment. They could set the goal at $1000 (or whatever it actually costs), but what would even be the point? There was never any doubt that they were going to make it, so they may as well just take the free marketing that comes with setting the initial goal that low. Sure, they're making money on this, on some level they're a business, they're not going to turn away what's basically free money, but who cares? This isn't them scamming everyone because they won't get enough to get the project going. This was NEVER going to fail. I mean you can argue about the value proposition (and it's certainly not something that appeals to me personally). But people clearly think it's worth giving money to, so good for everyone involved. I honestly can't see who loses here.
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I don't understand why they're doing it, though. Making podcasts profitable is hard - really hard - but they're a corporation and they can make it work. It would bring more traffic to the site and probably make them money in the long run. I guess I don't get why they even need the 10 dollars to begin with. Or 1000 dollars. Or 100,000 dollars. They're just selling extremely overppriced merchandise at this point. EDIT: I removed it from the original post, and I somehow missed the paragraph where they do need recording equipment and a sound engineer, but my point still stands. They really don't need "your" 10 dollars, they're just selling poo poo. Elephantgun has a new favorite as of 22:55 on May 8, 2013 |
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Donald Trump has started his own Kickstarter clone: http://allthingsd.com/20130508/donald-trump-launches-fundanything-a-kickstarter-clone-meant-to-bring-crowdfunding-to-the-masses/ This will surely attract all manner of projects worthy of this thread.
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UncleSmoothie posted:Donald Trump has started his own Kickstarter clone: http://allthingsd.com/20130508/donald-trump-launches-fundanything-a-kickstarter-clone-meant-to-bring-crowdfunding-to-the-masses/ "Bring crowdfunding to the masses"? Someone in editorial phoned this one in.
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The reason it's scummy is because kickstarter is supposed to be a way for people to fund projects that they can't on their own. It Carries a ton of credibility and exposure along with the name, which helps no-name companies get publicity. PA are already famous and can obviously fund this with the change in between their couch cushions, they're just milking their own popularity with idiot internet users who still see them as "Indie" or whatever. I mean, might as well gush over a Microsoft kickstarter, or a Cadillac one.
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Waffleman_ posted:They got like millions of dollars in another Kickstarter last year. To be fair, it probably costs a lot to keep their site up. Not nearly that much though. I'm hoping some of the money went to their charity.
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Drunk Tomato posted:The reason it's scummy is because kickstarter is supposed to be a way for people to fund projects that they can't on their own. Not really. It's supposed to be a funding platform, period. As in, for anything. This has been clear with Kickstarter since they started, they merely gained an indie rep by the fact that big time people didn't have any reason to use them at the start.
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Rapdawg posted:To be fair, it probably costs a lot to keep their site up. Not nearly that much though. I'm hoping some of the money went to their charity. Nah, the argument they used was that they needed money comparable to the amount of revenue they'd lose from not having said ad on their front page.
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UncleSmoothie posted:Donald Trump has started his own Kickstarter clone: http://allthingsd.com/20130508/donald-trump-launches-fundanything-a-kickstarter-clone-meant-to-bring-crowdfunding-to-the-masses/ http://fundanything.com/en http://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/baby-shades Baby shades, eyewear for your babies. http://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/822 This dude wants money to buy some bikes for his business. Not that you get anything in return. Seriously most of these projects have no rewards. http://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/7818 I don't even know quote:Hi, I'm Bruce. I'm a philosopher, an artist, a theologian, a counselor, and a student of life. I know how we are motivated and determined by the unseen stuff and inner values, thoughts and feelings that fill the backs of our minds.
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Kind of lolling at meltdowns over the podcast thing on Twitter. I'm sure they could eat the cost whatever it is, but I'm curious what it would actually be? Like if their goal was to get a moderate studio set up for a long-term podcast/side project/interview space, and hire a dude for 10 hours a week? And I guess bandwidth - 4 podcasts a month, at 45 minutes, say 30000 downloads each - 5 terabytes/month maybe? I have no idea if that all costs like 2000 dollars or 20000 for a 20 episode season.
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King of Gulps posted:Kind of lolling at meltdowns over the podcast thing on Twitter. I'm sure they could eat the cost whatever it is, but I'm curious what it would actually be? Like if their goal was to get a moderate studio set up for a long-term podcast/side project/interview space, and hire a dude for 10 hours a week? And I guess bandwidth - 4 podcasts a month, at 45 minutes, say 30000 downloads each - 5 terabytes/month maybe? I have no idea if that all costs like 2000 dollars or 20000 for a 20 episode season. Don't forget the fact that they're also going to charge money for each episode of the podcast, too.
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Drakkel posted:Don't forget the fact that they're also going to charge money for each episode of the podcast, too. Everyone who contributes to the kickstarter gets those episodes free as long as they donated at a certain tier though
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King of Gulps posted:Kind of lolling at meltdowns over the podcast thing on Twitter. Examples?
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Drakkel posted:Don't forget the fact that they're also going to charge money for each episode of the podcast, too. Actually the episodes will be pay what you want, they said in the latest news post that they want it to be free for anyone who wants to download it off the site. The kickstarter is for the people who want to support it and get stuff for their donations, such as the outtakes or the thumbdrive with the episodes on it. Edit: Looking through the local section of Kickstarter is like a treasure trove of terrible. Only $30k for a terrible stoner movie critic puppet show?  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1731694543/critics Chekans 3 16 has a new favorite as of 05:50 on May 9, 2013 |
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Man, you weren't kidding. Help this guy get his weird, furry crayon book self published: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1990924245/the-story-teller?ref=home_location
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Kickstarter seems to have an abundance of dice kickstarters, which all seem to get confusingly large amounts of money. Unless there's some huge dice collector market I happen to be unaware of, I'm not sure who is chucking this much money at dice. Anyway, probably the just plain silliest of the many dice kickstarters is this. They're dice! But with different coloured pips on a couple of sides! Otherwise they're exactly the same and look just as bad as the plastic dice you get with any children's board game. I find it funny they stress the importance of coming up with your own games to play with them, or variants on existing ones probably because not even they really know what these things are meant to do. They did come up with a couple of ideas for games that specifically use the "Dang-It Dice" and one of them is a slight variant on Blackjack and the other one is called "Dangle take the Hindmost", which is far funnier than anything I could ever come up with to mock it.
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They're for D&D and other tabletop gaming nerds, duh. I carry my dice bag everywhere I go, just in case I need to throw down. This includes my set of Dwarven metal dice that I got in a Traditional Games Secret Santa one year. Gamers love interesting dice and especially ones that are made out of interesting things. I've seen dice for sale made out of the bones of wooly mammoths. But now I can't find them so maybe they sold out or shut down after being revealed to be a scam.
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Xandu posted:http://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/baby-shades "I accept ANY donation. Minimum is $5.00"
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A quote from the updates section of that babyshades thing:quote:I've raised $60.00 so far and used it to purchase raw materials to make a prototype. Still working on that but seeking more funding to proceed. Don't think he gets how kickstarter works.
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Trapezium Dave posted:Story Quest for OUYA - 100% Free to Play Online Multiplayer MMORPG. His gameplay update video consists almost entirely of "I followed the tutorials to make your first game". Look, it's a 3d world you can walk around in. And move the camera! And it's using models and art assets taken from the internet! Surely this guy can turn that into a full fledged MMORPG!
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UncleSmoothie posted:Donald Trump has started his own Kickstarter clone: http://allthingsd.com/20130508/donald-trump-launches-fundanything-a-kickstarter-clone-meant-to-bring-crowdfunding-to-the-masses/ Oh what a treasure trove of lovely projects: First we got the classical "Fund my life" stuff: http://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/tricia-and-dan-adopt: Couple with poison womb (http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=1219, not that lady) decides to adopt, and lo-and-behold it costs money. http://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/7123: I need one class to finish my master, but I've got no good picture of me Then this: A bluetooth controlled light bulb:  That reminds me of something....like a kickstarter for the Wifi-enabled light bulb:  And the header image:  reminds me of 
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I want to troll that so hard. Just Trump everything. Trump Toupees, Trumpmobiles, Trumpphones, Trump Energy Drinks
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Alan Smithee posted:I want to troll that so hard. Just Trump everything. Trump Toupees, Trumpmobiles, Trumpphones, Trump Energy Drinks I want to put together a 10,000 dollar campaign to poo poo on a fine art portrait of Donald Trump, but I don't get it - I get charged 9% if I don't reach my goal? So if my campaign fails to earn 10,000$, I have to pay Donald Trump 900 dollars?
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Obnoxipus posted:
I hate this embracing your fatness poo poo. Does she embrace heart disease and diabetes also?
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The Human Crouton posted:I hate this embracing your fatness poo poo. Does she embrace heart disease and diabetes also?
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The new Penny Arcade kickstarter makes me want to try running one. Stretch goal: I'll do more than one podcast.
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Alan Smithee posted:I want to troll that so hard. Just Trump everything. Trump Toupees, Trumpmobiles, Trumpphones, Trump Energy Drinks I'm pretty sure half of these things already exist. Doesn't trump sell phones through a pyramid scheme?
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