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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8238551" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>There's that, and I think Kickstarter connects you to people who aren't like, big nerds.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure that's quite the right way to put it but... all my friends who have never been to DriveThruRPG, who generally only buy RPG books in paper formats (DNDBeyond being an exception), who don't think about RPGs all that much when not playing, and so on, are on Kickstarter, and hear about Kickstarter stuff somehow, often before I do, and do stuff like back weird indie RPGs. People who have a lot of disposable income have somehow all ended up on Kickstarter buying stuff - from my dad to co-workers.</p><p></p><p>So I dunno if it's about a "very specific" audience as much as an audience which is both extremely broad in terms of demographic (I know people from their 20s to their 70s backing stuff on there, and diverse in terms of backgrounds too), and is I think, better-off than average (because they have money to back projects which might not work out). There's also a "luxury" vibe to Kickstarter, which I don't know if I can exactly explain, but I think helps make people feel cool about spending money there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8238551, member: 18"] There's that, and I think Kickstarter connects you to people who aren't like, big nerds. I'm not sure that's quite the right way to put it but... all my friends who have never been to DriveThruRPG, who generally only buy RPG books in paper formats (DNDBeyond being an exception), who don't think about RPGs all that much when not playing, and so on, are on Kickstarter, and hear about Kickstarter stuff somehow, often before I do, and do stuff like back weird indie RPGs. People who have a lot of disposable income have somehow all ended up on Kickstarter buying stuff - from my dad to co-workers. So I dunno if it's about a "very specific" audience as much as an audience which is both extremely broad in terms of demographic (I know people from their 20s to their 70s backing stuff on there, and diverse in terms of backgrounds too), and is I think, better-off than average (because they have money to back projects which might not work out). There's also a "luxury" vibe to Kickstarter, which I don't know if I can exactly explain, but I think helps make people feel cool about spending money there. [/QUOTE]
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