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[thvaz]

Kickstarter got Order of the Stick creator over 1 million in 7 days

It would be good for Toady and DF?

[Johuotar]

Yeah but hes using the money ro make books of his comics, what would toady do with the money? Pay his living ofcourse but I have feeling thats not really tje poknt of kickstarter. Mayby if he would start selling DF merchandise or something. Or if he was in financilly bad cituation. I've understood hes stable on money side right now.

[thvaz]

Yeah, well Rich Burlew sell products, but Toady could offer other things. He could've used it for financing the animal sponsorship drive, for example.

[Footkerchief]

Does anyone use Kickstarter for long-term, ongoing support?  Raising $1 million becomes less appealing if you can only do it once.

[thvaz]

Well, one million would give Toady $4000 for twenty years...but I see your point. Anyway, I don't think DF would raise that much.

[Warmist]

Does anyone use Kickstarter for long-term, ongoing support?  Raising $1 million becomes less appealing if you can only do it once.

No, kickstarter requires quite the oposite: you can only get it for a on thing and then it ends. It's meant to kickstart things where you can't do without some sum of money (e.g. printing works, electronics etc...) if funding fails, the money is not taken away and not given to the project so it's all or nothing.

[Jake]

No, kickstarter requires quite the oposite: you can only get it for a on thing and then it ends. It's meant to kickstart things where you can't do without some sum of money (e.g. printing works, electronics etc...) if funding fails, the money is not taken away and not given to the project so it's all or nothing.

Perhaps it'd be worth looking at for a specific project requirement, like a new server?

[Uristocrat]

Does anyone use Kickstarter for long-term, ongoing support?  Raising $1 million becomes less appealing if you can only do it once.

I don't think so.  People use it when they have a goal they want funded.  Suppose that, I don't know, Toady wanted to make DF 64-bit but needed hardware to make that happen.  Then Kickstarter might make sense.  On the other hand, he could just handle all that himself.  I mean, he already takes donations, so he could just start a whatever fund if need be.  Kickstarter might give more exposure, but I have no idea how much.

Rich Burlew was only the 3rd guy to get $1M on Kickstarter, after all.  And that was for a reprint drive for some comics of his that had mostly gone out of print.  I wouldn't expect every drive to go that well.