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Re:10,000 Games projects have been successfully funded on Ki... by thaumasiotes on Friday March 24, 2017 @11:10PM (#13953904)
> I've never backed a KS board game, but as an outsider/layperson, that category sounds like an unmitigated runaway success

As someone with some direct experience with kickstarted board games, a few are smashing successes and quite a lot are, in terms of play, nothing special. I personally wouldn't want to back a campaign, because the odds are overwhelming that the final product wouldn't be something I'd really want to own.

There are enthusiasts who take the opposite approach -- they back everything because sometimes you get a real gem.

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Re:10,000 Games projects have been successfully funded on Ki... by danso on Friday March 24, 2017 @11:31PM (#13953952)
The appeal of board games (obviously, other than their entertainment value) is that they promise something of physical permanence and portability. When they manage to deliver, even if the quality isn't great (compared to professional products), you at least have a physical memento/token/souvenir.

But when software delivers a piece of crap, you end up with much less. Some of the successful iOS games I've backed from small devs don't even work anymore because they eventually stop keeping up with changes to iOS.

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Re:10,000 Games projects have been successfully funded on Ki... by Larrikin on Saturday March 25, 2017 @12:20AM (#13954093)
A working app that stops working sounds like an ecosystem problem.
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Re:10,000 Games projects have been successfully funded on Ki... by ReverseCold on Saturday March 25, 2017 @12:44AM (#13954141)
Eventually you need to get rid of old things for whatever reason and embrace new things, Apple just does this a lot faster than others, and it's definitely a good thing.
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Re:10,000 Games projects have been successfully funded on Ki... by smt88 on Saturday March 25, 2017 @02:50AM (#13954422)
Not everyone thinks it's good. I have some fantastic games from my childhood 20 years ago that work flawlessly on Windows 10. I really value that.
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Re:10,000 Games projects have been successfully funded on Ki... by ghaff on Saturday March 25, 2017 @10:07AM (#13955690)
You have a lot more flexibility in general with desktop OSs, especially when you consider VMs and the like. And even with Windows it's not that straightforward. A couple of weeks ago I spent some time getting old games and mods running on a new Windows 10 system. It involved a lot of patches and otherwise fiddling around--and these were popular games with a large community still involved with them.
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Re:10,000 Games projects have been successfully funded on Ki... by Nutomic on Saturday March 25, 2017 @05:08AM (#13954720)
I dont think thats the case on Android. Even apps written for Android 1.5 should still work fine on new phones.
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Re:10,000 Games projects have been successfully funded on Ki... by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday March 25, 2017 @02:49AM (#13954421)
Why is it a good thing that I've had to throw 5 iPhones in the e-waste bin?
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Re:10,000 Games projects have been successfully funded on Ki... by thaumasiotes on Saturday March 25, 2017 @04:21AM (#13954611)
I don't see backing kickstarter projects as an end in itself, such that delivery of any object is just a bonus that serves to commemorate that time when I backed a project. I'd like it to be the other way around, where the benefit of backing a project is that you got whatever it delivered.
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Re:10,000 Games projects have been successfully funded on Ki... by trhfgdgfsa on Saturday March 25, 2017 @02:32AM (#13954385)
Do you want a piece of crap cluttering up your house?
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