Re:Crowdfunding Is Driving a Board Game Renaissance
by colomon on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @08:35AM
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"The number of major games that only or even mainly exist thanks to Kickstarter must be tiny."
Yes, the article is silly to spend much time talking about games which made millions. But the overall effect of crowdfunding making more small games available looks pretty real to me. I've backed a dozen or so table-top games and RPGs now. None of them made anywhere near a million dollars. Most of them raised 1x to 10x the amount they were asking for. I'd guess maybe half of them had a chance of being published without crowdfunding.
Yes, the article is silly to spend much time talking about games which made millions. But the overall effect of crowdfunding making more small games available looks pretty real to me. I've backed a dozen or so table-top games and RPGs now. None of them made anywhere near a million dollars. Most of them raised 1x to 10x the amount they were asking for. I'd guess maybe half of them had a chance of being published without crowdfunding.