Stop calling it a donation. It's not an investment either. It's patronage, which in the history of patronage many results weren't what the patrons wanted either, but they almost never got their money back. You're providing support for a person to have the time and resources to produce whatever they're promising to produce, and that doesn't come with the guarantee you'll like the results, even if not all kickstarters spell this out. Some kickstarters have offered refunds, but its really up to them, and not something you can or should expect in every instance.
Spend your money wisely. In 99% of life, there are no refunds.
You are donating. You are not the King, Pope, President or any other CEO, Executive, Lead and so on and so forth. You are in no position to alter, pressure, demand and direct the course of the product. There is nothing
patro about it.
In addition, if Kickstarter genuinely wanted games to be supported they would
- Issue a refund of 15% to 45% according to your individual contribution.
- Issue warnings and penalties if a creator continually failed to meet the expectations.
- Allow more transparency between the "donators" and the creators.
- Allow only concepts and ideas to be hosted through their website through a genuine voting system from the gaming audience in which every week a certain amount of games would be featured and highlighted, open for donations whereas the ones that did not make it would have to go through the voting system again the next week and try to persuade more the gaming audience.
Instead they allow this system of free for all of producing massively mediocre games in the name of Indie Rebirth (stepping on the gamers nostalgia for oldschool material and memories), which some make it and some do not and surprisingly (sic) million(s) of dollars have already been flushed into the toilet and the only message of support they give you is "tough shit". But everything is alright, everything is perfectly fine because Star Citizen will save us all.
Already, the amount of total donations has been dropped and still dropping and this exact story just adds more to the mistrust of this whole project starter.
That is the grim reality;You are donating somewhere for something and it is perfectly
fine to get scammed, it is
alright to get scammed and everyone can sleep guilty free.