Should millionaires use Kickstarter to fund game projects?

Why would anyone ever donate to thisJML897

[QUOTE="JML897"]Why would anyone ever donate to thisMiroku32

Wow. I should launch a Kickstarter for the gaming computer I want to build. "Help a poor college kid crushed by student loans afford the gaming computer of his dreams!" :P

[QUOTE="Miroku32"][QUOTE="JML897"]Why would anyone ever donate to thisVari3ty

Wow. I should launch a Kickstarter for the gaming computer I want to build. "Help a poor college kid crushed by student loans afford the gaming computer of his dreams!" :P

[QUOTE="JML897"]Why would anyone ever donate to thisMiroku32

Oh god, that's the most depressing thing I've ever seen. I'm with Vari3ty. I think I should start a kickstarter to get other people to pay off my student loans.

This actually kind-of makes me angry.

:lol:

Bu bu bu but guys! If you donate enough you can get a kickass shirt, a hat, a can koozie, AND the game she's making!!

Look at the $10,000 backer reward:

ROCK STAR REWARD LEVEL: At this level, you get everything from the previous levels plus a personal apology from her brothers and the satisfaction of knowing that you've not only started a career, you've also helped to fund future courses in computer programming for her along with more (and better) games!

Dumbass Kickstarter Campaign

A personaly apology from her brothers? For 10k? Wow, that sure is a great reward... 

Wow, to all the people that backed I have a message for you: This is probably the mom, during writing up the "sad yet true" story on KickStarter:

Much like me during poetry tests.

Millionares don't have time for games.

Beggars and scammers are a dime a dozen.

So are gullible people.

admittedly, a millionaire might have liabilities that make them just as unable to fund games as the rest of us. for $850? they probably have that kind of money but (according to the kickstarter page, at least) this is the 9-year-old daughter getting the money.

now, do i believe that this is all the daughter's doing? i have my suspicions but, as far as i know, there isn't much in the way of assurance for kickstarter. it's up to investors to determine where they put their money. they could crowdfund a new toilet for a fat man if they felt it was a worthy goal.

It says the Kickstarter is to send her daughter to an RPG Camp, which is against Kickstarters rules. As are some of the other things she has been doing.

I'd recommend everyone just report it and move on.

As if it didn't seem obvious enough that the woman wrote the whole thing and likely made it all up, what the hell is with the "pictures of her kids"? The daughter looks like an idiot, the boy is shirtless and has a Christmas hat, and the other boy has a shirt that says he thinks he's a lesbian. The ****

Apparently Kickstarter is letting the project continue. Wow. 

Apparently Kickstarter is letting the project continue. Wow. 

Vari3ty

It's not even a game project. It's a week-long summer camp.

admittedly, a millionaire might have liabilities that make them just as unable to fund games as the rest of us. for $850? they probably have that kind of money but (according to the kickstarter page, at least) this is the 9-year-old daughter getting the money.LoG-Sacrament

The thing is this isn't to fund a game, this is to send her daughter to a camp to learn how to use a particular piece of software (RPG Maker, of all things) under the premise that she'll make a game with that software at some point.

[QUOTE="LoG-Sacrament"]

admittedly, a millionaire might have liabilities that make them just as unable to fund games as the rest of us. for $850? they probably have that kind of money but (according to the kickstarter page, at least) this is the 9-year-old daughter getting the money.worlock77

The thing is this isn't to fund a game, this is to send her daughter to a camp to learn how to use a particular piece of software (RPG Maker, of all things) under the premise that she'll make a game with that software at some point.

Any one should be able to use Kickstarter when it use used for the right way. It should pay for project that would normally get paid for or spread out the risk for a project from on person.

I don't sending a kick to a camp counts.