Rooster teeth is asking for $250,000 for their new board game, why this is a problem and should be actively fought against.

If a person has interest in a product on kickstarter, the assumption is they need to back it in order for it to exist.

Yes.

Blatantly lying to people to pretend like you can't afford to produce something, while knowing full well you can, is tantamount to fraud.

No, it's actually not fraud. It might be unethical, it might be a dick move, but it is not fraud.

Now, with that out of the way, you are also being a dick since you are just assuming you know the internal financial situation of the company. Often times a company does not want to put forth the risk without some kind of bump from the community. You can find lots of stories of projects that were partially crowd sourced (which is something I think I mentioned in my first reply to you).

It's called forcing their hand.

No, it's fucking not called that, you nitwit. Forcing someone's hand is literally making them do something. You even acknowledge in your next fucking sentence that Rooster Teeth can't force you to do shit.

Crowd sourcing has never forced any single person to taken on any kind of burden. No amount of flailing around on your part is going to change that.

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