There's been a growing tendency for gaming companies that could very well make a game with their own resources to crowdfund their games. (Examples: Shadowrun Returns, Pillars of Eternity)

Now a bunch of ex-Rare employees came together to make a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie through Kickstarter.

The whole thing got funded (with a £175k goal) in a few hours and is now headed to reach double the funding goal still today.

While Banjo-Kazooie is one of my favorite games of all time and I'll love to see a spiritual successor for it coming out, this whole tendency concerns me - the amount of Big Players using Kickstarter, often to cook up new spins on old titles, ends up meaning that new players in the gaming scene with original ideas get overlooked and their Kickstarters are failing left and right as a consequence.

What do you guys think of this trend? Are there ways to reverse it? And what do you think of Yooka-Laylee?