I really don't think that this is something that any kind of company could make a habit of. Double Fine has accumulated a great deal of good will from the community, and that Notch offer had already put them in the spotlight. However, that good will would quickly diminish if they continued to operate this way. I am very happy to be an investor with no return other than the finished product once, or maybe even twice, but at some point we would have to ask why they don't just go public, and allow us to buy stocks so that when we make an investment in their company we will actually get something out of it.
This is an interesting experiment. It can never become a viable business model.
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