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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Worf" data-source="post: 53902" data-attributes="member: 1047">Welcome to life. If you treat it as a "pre order" guess what? It can happen to you too (see everyone who preordered Duke Nukem Forever - who saw all the companies they preordered from go bankrupt, get acquired, shut down, etc). You can plunk money down and lose it (Sony's removed some games from the VIta store - if you bought it, the only copy you have is on the memory card and you cannot download it again). You can buy a widget and find out the next day a newer faster one just came out, etc.And yes, it's possible they'd disappear with the money. It's a risk everyone has to put up with. Which is why you don't kickstarter anymore money you can afford to lose. I'd say we're all well heeled enough that if you're spending $40 on TPA tables, you can probably do $10 and not miss it if they run away. Of course, if you're going for the $400 one, then yeah, you better be able to stomach its loss.Then again, tons of people lots lots of money in 2008 during the financial crash, so ... (and Kickstarter arose from that - because since 2008, getting money has gotten REALLY REALLY HARD).It's why you should read the Kickstarter page carefully, why every page has a "Who are we" and "The risks" section to give you as much information as possible. If at the end, you're still not confident, put your money elsewhere. Oh yeah, you can also ask questions before pledging, too. It's called due diligence, and even the big guys who write million dollar cheques do it. If you've ever been through a company getting a round of financing (same thing), those guys will literally sniff up everyone's butts, do cavity searches, etc, to ensure everything is on the up and up.</blockquote>

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