Recently, Kickstarter funded a Veronica Mars movie and a sequel to the beloved cult video game Planescape: Torment with record-breaking success. It’s become clear that we can directly influence the things that get created for our entertainment — if there’s a cool movie or game or album that we’d like to see, we now have the power to give people money to make those things exist, rather than just wait for some big production company to foot the bill and bitch about the end result on the Internet.
Unless, of course, we screw it all up. Which seems likely, because …
#5. We Still Think Kickstarter Is a Store
As much as 75 percent of successful Kickstarter campaigns miss their deadlines, in particular the ones that end up getting way overfunded. This isn’t because of scamming or incompetence; it’s because extra resources increase the size of a project and make it take more time, which is something that most people simply cannot understand.