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by giulianob 5034 days ago
They have to fulfill the rewards it says. Which really means that you shouldn't promise a version of your product if you can't deliver it. Rather it might be better to make the rewards things that are easy to deliver such as shirts, stickers, etc... Definitely some projects like Ouya that have promised a console will technically have to refund people potentially millions of dollars if they can't ship the device.
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>will technically have to refund people potentially millions of dollars //

Presumably OUYA is a company with some limitation of liability for the owners, I don't know much about USA company formation but it seems that the company would fold and there would no longer be a legal entity to hold to account. IFF this is the case then "technically" they won't have to refund anyone beyond what liquidation of the company requires.

This is where someone with knowledge of company law steps in and corrects me ...