What do you think about the popular Visual Novel translation crowdfunding?

Well, it's the thing that made bringing the big titles possible and also potentially increased my wages and introduced me to more work. What do you think I think? People should spend more so I can get paid more and have an easier time landing interesting projects is what I think. :P It's a great tool to minimize the risk for niche products such as visual novels, and I don't really see much of a difference between paying beforehand or afterward except that it allows companies to try games that would otherwise be too risky. It's a win-win situation as far as I see it unless the company becomes greedy and starts asking for unreasonable amounts of cash (but then it fails and can reform, so...). I don't think a notion that something of the complexity of Dies irae would ever be translated even crossed anyone's mind before lucrative Clannad, Grisaia, and Muv-Luv kickstarters enticed every VN dev and their mother.