Yeah Chris Roberts is the guy behind it. I've stopped bothering with Kickstarter but I definitely had to get in on a few of them. It's definitely a form of gambling and I'd say 30-40% of the Kickstarters I've put in for have been disappointing so far. Only a couple have actually finished that I actually Kickstarted (a music CD that I liked enough to justify the Kickstarter price point I put in for and a decent Defense Grid DLC update and I'll get the sequel for 'free' later), but a few of the other ones.. the gameplay videos and whatnot aren't impressing me.
Wasteland 2 is shaping up nicely and every backer release only makes me more excited. It HAS been delayed 3-6 months, though. I'd be surprised if all the decent ones didn't get delayed about this long.
Grim Dawn looks decent for an action RPG and recently went for sale on Steam if you want to pay to get into the alpha/beta... I don't. I put in for the cheapest price point where you still got the game and I'll eagerly install the game in the future and save the $12 or so (assuming it'll initially sell for $30... I paid $18) for getting in on the ground floor.
The new Torment game is so set up to be amazing that it's hard to believe Obsidian/inXile would drop the ball. Same with Project Eternity.
The games that are making me nervous are Drifter (a minimalist space sim), Dead State (zombie survival sim), and Republique (a stealth hacker game of some kind that I really don't find myself caring about any more).
Any way, Star Citizen has earned more money than all of these combined, so it should be impressive (either a disaster or a success). I'll probably post a thread about it when the beta starts up (barring NDA if they do that) and let you know how it's shaping up... but that's like a year away.
It's definitely a form of gambling. I've put something like $250 into backing these games and don't plan on backing anything else until most of them succeed... or never again if they fail.
