All the wrangling over "does this violate kickstarter's rules," which seems to happen for lots of different projects, says to me that it's more the fault of dumb kickstarter rules than bad projects. In many projects I see the "This can't be to keep the lights on" clause being referenced again and again, but any kind of large scale creative project, isn't that going to be part of it?
I mean, I understand it that rule if you are an established restaraunt, and you are trying to launch a food truck and need money for lawyers, permits, and hardware. A large scale creative endevour has small physical capitol costs, and large human capitol costs, if you want to make an indie game, distributed digitally over the internet, you don't need much cash for distributiuon or hardware, but you need people, and you need time from those people. By Kickstarters own rules then this would be disallowed, but kickstarter, and gamers seem to like those things, so they let them go on. That screams more "these rules suck" rather than people abusing the system. I think Kickstarter realizes this too, as they aren't nearly as pedantic about the rules as the community.
