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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Just Some Guy" data-source="post: 23830" data-attributes="member: 671">They got my money for the Twilight Zone table, but launching another Kickstarter project this soon seems to be in poor taste. The last few releases on iOS have had some serious bugs—to the point where many tables were completely unplayable—and there are many outstanding issues that impact gameplay.They have our money for Twilight Zone, but we don’t have the table yet—I understand that it takes time to work into their schedule and actually build the table (I think they said November?) but I don’t think they should have launched this new Kickstarter until the old one was completed and we had at least seen the results from it, and what state The Pinball Arcade was in at that stage. If they haven’t fixed most of the outstanding bugs by then, I don’t know that I would want to continue supporting the project.And frankly, I have zero interest in the Star Trek license, so I’m not willing to pay $10 for the table—I will certainly purchase it if the Kickstarter is successful though.I thought this with Twilight Zone as well, but it also seems unfair that Kickstarter backers—the people that should be rewarded for making this happen—have to pay $10 for the table, yet if it’s successful, anyone else will only need to pay half that. I think that the $10 starting tier should be the first one that at least gives some sort of bonus like the TNG Pinball to use on all tables. (actually, I think it’s quite shocking that you need to pay $50 to get access to the table operator’s menu)Is it really that the license is $30,000 and the other $5 is for the table? Is it actually $60,000 and they’re being really generous and giving backers the table for free, assuming that non-backers will pay for the development costs? There’s really been no information other than saying they need to raise $60,000. Maybe I’m just being too cynical at this point.It also concerns me what this does for the licensing of future tables. Maybe they could have got the license for something like Addams Family for $10,000 (unlikely, but lets say it was hypothetically) but now they see that both Twilight Zone and Star Trek raised $60,000 maybe they want $60,000 for it now too—or maybe they feel that their IP is more valuable than Star Trek or the Twilight Zone, and they want more than $60,000 now. And the more Kickstarter projects are done, the less sustainable I think it is going to be. I think there’s a Kickstarter bubble going on right now, that is probably due to burst before the end of the year. (perhaps that’s why they’re doing it now rather than wait until Twilight Zone is done)</blockquote>

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