Yeah. Sometimes I feel like the anxiety of these big Kickstarter projects (especially for board games with boatloads of unlockable add-on content) is not worth their existence. Like, if this game just showed up at my FLGS, and I did a little research and it seemed OK, then great! I’ll throw $70 at it and hope it doesn’t let me down.

But the KS model really relies on people to say “oh no! if I don’t get on board now I’ll never get the super-bonus cards or the exclusive miniatures” and then allowing their primate-brains to extrapolate that to “and therefore my enjoyment of this game will be permanently diminished!”

It encourages investment at a much higher level than we would otherwise tolerate for a product that has a non-zero chance of totally evaporating, and that is still going to exist and be just as enjoyable otherwise.