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It would be one thing for Goblinworks (or even Paizo) to contribute to the KS. That would be shady.

It would be a different thing if Ryan or Lisa were to personally contribute their own money to the program, even selecting a reward tier and getting the rewards involved. That would be their -personal- money, not corporate money, and would not be shady at all. I also don't think that both of them put together have discretionary cash on the order of magnitude needed to be a factor for the kickstarter.

I personally would think that is just playing with semantics and as shady as it gets.

The problem is the buggy kickstarter mechanics.

All pledges combine I'm about 1000$ deep into this game. You know how much I am still willing to give to GW if they fail to meet their arbitrary goal? All of it.

But if they fail to meet that arbitrary goal even by a dollar it then they get 0$ from this whole campaign.

If there is one thing this has convinced me it's that the idea of a kickstarter is solid, but kickstarter the website for MANY reason... is a piece of junk.

If this fails they need to do a new pledge drive on their own website like Star Citizen.

Very valid points in my opinion and a good idea.

Also, they could just run a new Kickstarter with a goal of say $1000 and that way be sure that they get everything that's pledged.

Doesn't seem unethical to me at all. Guess it just depends on how you look at it.

In my opinion it is definitely unethical as it is against Kickstarter's Terms of Service (which they obviously agreed to).

Andius wrote:

If I were GW I would throw in my own money at this point. We are so freaking close

I'm pretty sure that's not allowed in the rules of Kickstarter.

Yes, GW could probably create an account to hide where the money is coming from. But I don't know, seems a bit on the unethical side.

Yeah, and at this point so many people are watching the Kickstarter that a multi 10k influx (especially if no 10k slots are taken) would definitely be noticed.