3 ... Because the Creators Are Taking Advantage of Us

The Kickstarter Terms of Service are as follows:

"Kickstarter does not offer refunds. A Project Creator is not required to grant a Backer's request for a refund unless the Project Creator is unable or unwilling to fulfill the reward."

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"Or the Project Creator takes all the money and flees to Barbados."

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With that in mind, check out game designer Peter Molyneux's Kickstarter for Project GODUS. Molyneux is the man behind the hugely popular Fable trilogy. The most likely reason a prominent developer like him would turn to Kickstarter (aside from the fact that GODUS sounds like something you need to have a doctor burn off of your genitals with liquid nitrogen) is because he's consistently had to apologize for lying about the content of his games -- not discussing features during the development process that were eventually not included for one reason or another, mind you, but flat out telling us that the completed game had things in it that it absolutely didn't have when it was finally released. He has done this with literally every game in the Fable series so far.