Gaming-focused crowdfunding site "Fig" launches

You know how people speculated (read: joked) that Vuze might make a huge KS pledge in order to pull the 500k gathered for the RA Kickstarter?
Well, judging by this statement, this support platform would be completely open to such fun courses of action!

I quite like this, and that tracker under game info is something ALL crowd funding sites should have, it's a very good source of information and let's people who complain about lack of updates see where the project currently is in development.

Nice start imo

Yes, it sounds quite useful... IF the devs remember to update it on top of all the other work they're doing for the game .

But if the board of curators make smart decisions about who can and can't make a campaign on Fig, that shouldn't really be a problem. If not, devs could always hire just one guy whose entire job is updating the tracker and they just sit at a computer every day like a hawk waiting for a rabbit to start hopping around somewhere, waiting for the exact moment when games move to different phases of development so they can update that tracker.

Or Fig could just have a reminder/notification about the progress tracker when the devs make updates.

But overall, I like what Fig's trying to do and what their goals are. Backers and actual investors donating together, not just anyone can make a project and they must be pitched to curators beforehand, and a focus on gaming. I'd like to see the platform take off and become the go-to platform for game crowdfunding.

Eh. It's a nice idea, but I won't be supporting projects on it as things stand currently. You have to have a net worth of over $1M to actually gain any benefit above what you would get from a Kickstarter campaign, Apparently they want to get rid of that barrier to entry eventually, but then isn't now.

If they can fix that problem, then I'll give it another look.