I ran across this excellent article on why crowd-funding for games is a terrible investment while I was surfing the web.
http://www.tentonhammer.com/columns/respawn/kickstarter-land-glorious-vaporware-and-disappointment
Although I realize that there will probably never be a shortage of naive people who will invest in Kickstarters,
maybe if they read this first they won't repeat the same mistake if they get burned.