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Re: Wasteland 2 Kickstarter Concludes at $3M+

Apr 17, 2012, 11:20

Creston

wtf_man wrote on Apr 17, 2012, 10:26: 15% of that is gone off the top (Kickstarter, Amazon, and Kicked Forward). Then you got whatever Pay Pal takes, the cost of the backer "Rewards", and then the government puts it's hand out as well. The just might get 900k after all... maybe. Amazon takes a percentage, but I believe it's pretty minor, in the range of 2%-3% or something. Kicked Forward ONLY comes out of profits, and not out of these pledges. Finally, while Paypal does take a 4% or 5% chunk, that's out of 110K, so in the grand scheme of things it's trivial. So all in all, of the 3 million, they pay Amazon around 60-90K, leaving them with plenty of change to work with. Kickstarters really have to cut on rewards. Rewards create such a huge overhead that it can jeopardize any project, even those that gain a lot of money like this. Do digital rewards like wallpapers or cosmetic stuff for backers that at least don't cost as much as physical rewards like shirts and boxed editions and all that. This is the first big problem that is now facing kickstarters and it must be resolved fast, rewards are eating away at too much of the money they earn. I think the big cost of the rewards is shipping. Mass producing a bunch of t-shirts, boxes and other paraphernalia only costs a few bucks per item. Add around 5 bucks in postage, and you're done. And sure, that 10 or 15 bucks per person for the rewards is all coming out of the 3 million pot, but the idea that they need to "cut back" on those rewards to save their pot is incredibly short-sighted. Without those rewards, few people would bother putting in more than $15, so their pot would have been maybe 1 million instead of 3 million then. If someone pledges 50 bucks, that's 35 bucks extra over the minimum, and they can afford to spend 15 bucks on goodies if someone just gave 35 extra dollars. They're in fine shape. Creston

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