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The runaway success of Double-Fine Adventure cemented the viability of crowdfunding games, and soon afterwards FTL proved that small projects by new teams can succeed as well. Kickstarter remains the best-known and most-used crowdfunding platform.
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Con Goals need to be higher than on competing services
There's a 5% fee for using the service, a 3-5% fee for processing payments and since rewards for various pledge levels are not optional they often end up being physical goods that have to be shipped and that adds cost of the goods, the time it takes to create the goods and the cost of shipping the goods to the total amount of money that has to be raised for the project.
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Out of Date Pros + Cons
Con Can't work with banks that don't accept $0
Beware if your bank (as many other banks) doesn't accept $0 charges. You can't pledge in this case because Kickstarter tries to charge $0.
Con Unresponsive and unhelpful support
Even if it answers it gives you standard answers. In addition there's a bug and when you open your ticket you can't access the ticket and communicate with the support further.