Consumer law trumps TOS. In the UK, EU and Australia their EULA/TOS is utterly meaningless. In the US you might have to go to your AG, as Streetroller did, but they don’t get to take your money and deliver nothing in return just because they bake it into an unethical TOS.

That’s not how Kickstarter works. Kickstarter’s own terms say this, and US, EU and Australian law do not support your belief.

They run regular ‘sales’, they charge VAT (Sales Tax) on those sales.

It’s a pre-order. Maybe you can make an argument that the original kickstarter was a donation, but as US AGs have already ruled that they still have to deliver and are legally liable if not, then that’s equally not a ‘donation’.

CIG have bloated the…

So, much like Star Citizen’s tiny non-universe tech demo is boring and repetitive then (plus very, very buggy)?