I've backed quite a few projects. of those, most of the ones that delivered in time only a couple were actually worth it. this is fine, it's all meant to be risky-ish projects looking for funding. But typically you exchange risk for price: significant discounts in exchange for a product that may just not be that great or even be delivered. This has been increasingly getting more and more pointless. Most ks this days either never deliver, deliver >6mo or even >1y from the original timeline, or even start selling before ks rewards even ship. The price discounts are also effectively LESS that what you would get if you just...wait and then check out whatever made it out on some sale. more and more often, surveys are on third party sites, or even 2 or three sites outside ks, too. Its getting close to impossible to keep track of them all without spending a ridiculous amount of time on it, forces you to give your data to even more places, and often they also ask for even more money on those sites, outside ks, which makes claims even harder. A lot of the wrongdoings are clearly against ks policies, and yet, zero accountability is taken. I've lost literal thousands of pounds on projects that were in clear breach of terms from the get go, despite numerous complaints. and I'm still waiting on campaings started more than 2 years ago, with no end in sight. I dont think any of this is gonna get better, and i would advise you to just not use ks anymore, since their own finances are tied to projects being "successful" in financing, but not delivering to any degree or even having proper communication, and they explicitly state they have no control over anything... at which point, what are we even backing things here for.
