Rated X wrote:Burn wrote:There's nothing new about this at all. People have been investing money into start up companies for decades, hell, they've probably been doing it longer.
This is just a DIFFERENT way of doing it.
Sure it would be great to already have the money to start up a business, but why should those who have a great idea but no money not be denied the opportunity to get a bit of a hand up?
What world would we be living in if all ideas relied solely on the already rich?
Seriously ... I'm going to be "outspoken", but only the already rich should be allowed to invest? That's **** stupid.
It doesn't have anything to do with being rich or poor. If you flip your own dividends, whether its dollars or millions of dollars, you're an entrepreneur. When you persuade other people to flip their own dividends for your profit, you're a pimp. It's that simple. There's nothing wrong with pimping if you call it what it is. But when you disguise it as entrepreneurship, you're kidding yourself. We don't know if PWTT are rich or poor. All we know is they didn't want to go the traditional route which has brought so many 3rd parties success on their debut products. So one is only left to speculate why they chose Kickstarter. I speculate that they have the money but not 100% confidence they would score a home run. For that they should have just gone back to the drawing board. After all, they do draw a lot.
I'm actually going to have to agree with Rated X on this one.
Think I'll take it a step further by saying. If PWTT expects fans to pay for their toys. Then fans should of had more say as far as what toys they wanted to get made. Think posting a few rounds of polls with multiple toy options like MP, Combiner, Multiple changer, Pretender, City bot, CHUG, Weapon bot and so on. similar to what Hasbro does for the Fan favorite selected figure. Should of been the route taken here.
Just think the way PWTT went about this whole project seems rather selfish. Not only do they expect fans to pay for everything but fans have no say so on what gets made. Having PWTT's crew members dream toys made is fine, If PWTT's crew pay for it all.