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Originally Posted by Dolemite

That's stupid of him. Some good reveals may raise interest in the project.

But then again, this thing is having trouble just reaching the initial 9.000 backers, maybe Dan thinks people will be pissed the fuck off if the stretch goals are revealed but don't end up being met.

I think they would want to avoid a mass back out if a stretch goal isn't met. You don't wanna get to say 11K and then when it becomes obvious it won't get to 14 or wherever the next stretch goal, you lose 2000+ backers who were only in for the stretch goals and the whole thing falls apart, I think they're already in danger of that with Mephisto. Sort of a repeat of what happened with the early bird. I know they showed all the goals for the Skystriker, but I'm not sure how make or break the figures in that were vs people being perfectly happy with the base offering, with this it seems at least a decent amount of people are really only interested in it if it meets stretch.

But it's worth pointing out that there are no "rules" so to speak for how they do this thing, that's one of the benefits of building your own platform like Haslab as opposed to Kickstarter, you make your own rules, you can be more reactive. There's nothing stopping them from coming out today and saying "Robbie is back in at 9k" or "Mephisto is in at 9k", I honestly think this thing could hit 12k if you put Mephisto in at base anyway. I suppose it brings up a question of precedent, but again, your own platform, and I think the only precedent you set is showing the fans "we're passionate about making these Haslabs and will do everything we can to give the fans what they want"