Investments give a return on your money. Kickstarter is more like patronage.

shit. Well then we could make the honest argument that I funded the tech demo that was pitched, and the tech demo failed to attract big investors.

Seriously. It's an investment tool, not a marketplace.

Are people still using Kickstarter as a pre-order service?

Hiro Protagonist is saddened.

Ehh not quite the same thing, the interactivity of it is what is controversial. We all need to stop pretending that it isn't at least worth looking into.

As a Canadian, I have to ask... where can I get the American version of these games that are mind controlling people to go on shooting sprees? Because our versions don't seem to be having this effect up here.

But god forbid we track people who own/use ACTUAL firearms.

Ew.

This is called Creativity.

Dear God...

Man. I am trying to laugh. But it just hits right there. "DLC"s weren't supposed to be used like that. It had so much potential. Now we see microtransactions like it was a free to play online game. Costumes, weapons, these were unlockable items before. Why else would someone suddenly go nostalgic in remembering how it…

Way to miss the point...

STOP THE BOAT!

If you avoid taking money for goods which are to be delivered at a distant date you'll not run into this particular issue.

I happily do public speaking all the time as a teacher, and I would find it pretty embarrassing if someone recorded 5 seconds of me and played it over and over again on Kotaku for eternity.

he wants the d... ...igital.

Now we just need a "Anchorman Nautilus" Skin to match.

If only comments like this made people who would seriously say something like that stop and think.

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