We’re pledging far less money to Kickstarter projects in 2016

4 Jul 2016

Steve Wright

UK-based consultancy firm ICO Partners says gamers are pledging far less money to Kickstarter projects in this year as compared to last.

In the first half of 2016, we’ve collectively pledged $8.2 million to video game projects on Kickstarter, compared to more than $20 million in each half of 2015.

The firm says that a similar amount of projects are being successfully funded this year and last, but we’re simply offering up less money to projects overall. This is especially the case in large-scale projects, with donations dramatically decreasing. Interestingly enough, we’re giving more money to smaller projects.

You can head here to read the full analysis.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.