ASeven wrote on May 8, 2012, 19:39:

PropheT wrote on May 8, 2012, 18:23:

Cutter wrote on May 8, 2012, 15:58:
What bubble? There is no bubble. Clearly the author doesn't understand the concept of crowd-sourcing and why people like it. This isn't an investment strategy.

We'll see about that when one of these developers either fails to produce a decent game as a result of their kickstarter, or worse, fails to produce a game at all. Both are scenarios that are more or less guaranteed to happen eventually.

What will happen is that the people who bought that will be sorely disappointed, KS projects will go on, people will still support KS projects based on their own assertions. Crowdfunding is a new economic phenomenon not yet fully understood by economists, to claim it has a bubble is way too ridiculous, especially since with crowdfunding projects are independent of each other and the failure of one does not necessarily means the failure of another.

Once the dust settles I see people still supporting KS projects but the amount of projects that do get funded will decrease with time, as people either don't feel attracted to the projects or other, better crowdfunding business models appear.