This past week Kickstarter tripled their number of project subcategories to well over 100. We ask our panel of writers, and a special guest, whether this new-found granularity is a good or bad thing. Will it help backers find projects, or do too many choices just confuse things?
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Kickstarts being around after all the failed projects, scams, and crummy final products with lies on promises made is a bit of a mistake. There have been very few truly successful things to come out of Kickstarters. Ouya is probably the biggest joke to ever come out with how made it was plus the broken promises. Broken Age was the only thing that comes to mind that was truly successful.
Kickstarter is a great thing.
Some of the people trying to take advantage of it are not though.
I believe Scammers use Kickstarter as a means of stealing public money legally, with a front creating a said game.
end results nothing accomplish but bigger bank acct. at our expense.