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Is the use of Kickstarter by celebrities/ppl with plenty of money acceptable?
Barmymoo:
Because Jeph pays for these forums.
seinfeldtheme:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 12 Aug 2013, 15:25 ---Because Jeph pays for these forums.
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which forbids anyone here from casting a critical eye on anything related to jeph jacques whatsoever?
i guess this discussion could be taken to his tumblr or kickstarter page or whatever but i was interested in seeing what people here thought about it
ackblom12:
As May has said, part of my problem with this complaint in the first place is that you're making a lot of assumptions about his finances. Otherwise, no I don't think it's not in the spirit, or wrong, for anyone at all to use Kickstarter regardless of finances. If Bill fucking Gates decided to use KS, I wouldn't care. He can present his idea and I can make a choice as to whether or not I want to be a part of the process. It's not morally wrong, though in most cases someone wealthy enough to fund this kind of stuff on their own without issue would find KS to be more effort than it's worth.
Also, $10 is a pretty normal price for a digital album. Complaining that you can't get it for $5 is just stupid. Unless the complaint is about the fact that that tier exist at all, in which case I'm thinking you're probably not real well versed in KS projects. Damn near every single Kickstarter in existence has a low tier that you can use just to keep u with the backer updates. Since you can cancel the pledge at any time, it makes it useful for backers who aren't decided yet so that they don't feel terrible for canceling and skewing the numbers too much.
Masterpiece:
Isn't this thread more worthy of a place in Discuss!?
seinfeldtheme:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 12 Aug 2013, 15:32 ---As May has said, part of my problem with this complaint in the first place is that you're making a lot of assumptions about his finances. Otherwise, no I don't think it's not in the spirit, or wrong, for anyone at all to use Kickstarter regardless of finances. If Bill fucking Gates decided to use KS, I wouldn't care. He can present his idea and I can make a choice as to whether or not I want to be a part of the process. It's not morally wrong, though in most cases someone wealthy enough to fund this kind of stuff on their own without issue would find KS to be more effort than it's worth.
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you're entitled to believe that of course, i just don't agree at all
i also think painting this kind of thing as "being part of the process" is somewhat disingenuous phrasing
--- Quote ---Also, $10 is a pretty normal price for a digital album. Complaining that you can't get it for $5 is just stupid.
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i don't think it's stupid if there's literally no financial risk involved in producing this album whatsoever. it's not like a precedent hasn't been set; radiohead, and a number of other less lucrative bands, produced albums without fan donations and asked them to pay whatever they wanted for a digital copy
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