[Darth Marsden]

I'll repost what I said at Kotaku.

"You will see bigger publishers start to get nervous." —Investor and entrepreneur Steve Dengler, talking about how the Kickstarter publishing model could change the game industry.
No you won't. It's a great way for some to develop their games, but people will get burned out on the idea - hell, many are already. There's so many projects going now they're all fighting for your attention and it's hard to get invested in them all. Not every Kickstarter project has a big name behind it. Double Fine, Shadowrun Returns and Wasteland 2 may have done great, but others aren't. Jane Jenson's project may just scrape by the target, and Al Lowe probably won't break the $650,000 barrier. Lord knows if people will still care by the time the Tex Murphey one appears. Also, you need to remember that a lot of people only contribute if they get the game for free. It'll be interesting to see how many copies of the games are actually sold compared to how many are just given to the backers. I don't think people are going to be making all that much money with the finished games, to be honest.