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It's almost like you could check out the linked campaign and answer that question with a couple of minutes reading.
The money goes to supporting pixelfed, loops and sup development, with the goal being financing full time development for the entire team.
It's almost like I already did read it and it didn't answer the question.
"Kickstarter" is supposed to be a crowdfunding campaign to "kickstart" a project, not string it along.
So games that have a demo or an alpha build should not be allowed on kickstarter since they technically already exist?
Have these games already launched and are available for purchase on the store?
I didn't say anything about what should or should not be allowed. It just doesn't make sense.
Oh no, someone is tarnishing the sacred name of a kickstarter campaign by checks notes raising money to scale up a project that can benefit everyone (thus kickstarting the scaling effort) instead of selling a $250 plastic brick that generates far-infrared waves using no electricity in order to "stabilise" your car's battery which you velcro the brick on top of (okay, that one was an IndieGoGo, but same difference).
Wow that looks like a scam.
That's my point: Kickstarter and IndieGoGo is filled with extraordinarily obvious scams, yet this person's trying to act like there'a some sanctity to the semantics rather than the spirit of them.
Wow. You really missed the mark on that one. I don't know why would you think I was making that point instead of the very clearly more sensible "it's not what it's for".
In other words, why don't they just have a donation page like everyone else?
My point being I see no reason why Kickstarter can't be for kickstarting the rapid scaling of a free, available-to-all project when it can be for rampant, unadulterated scams. This is easily within the spirit if not the letter of Kickstarter, unlike the scams which fit the letter but not the spirit.
Once again, not saying it "can't" be used for anything, it is just a strange choice because it's not "kickstarting" anything. The pupose of Kickstarter (and other crowdfunding sites) is to generate the necessary funds to bring something into existence. It's already going. It's like using it to sell products that are already on store shelves. Like, why do I need this? Why wouldn't I just go to the store and buy it? I don't understand the purpose.