Is the Kickstarter (crowd funding) model the future, or is it a fad?

Is the Kickstarter (crowd funding) model the future, or is it a fad?
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It’s both. At the moment anyone and their mother can make a Kickstarter and have it succeed, and while there are definitely success stories like Ouya or Wasteland 2, for every one of those there has been 5 bandwagon games/products/services/whatever that receive full funding while showing practically nothing.
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