Yup... it's just an idea. But I've been watching Kickstarter lately and have seen some great things come from it. Furcadia, a longstanding MMO, fired one up a while ago and got an amazing amount of donations, enabling them to practically re-vamp their game. I've also seen a lot of other indie games get their start from that site and as I reflect on it I realize I don't actually know when Kickstarter got... kickstarted. I'm wondering if this idea has occured to Istaria devs before?