Ssoo if I understand correctly Yogscast just scammed 13.000+ people? (unpopular opinion again!)

Remember kids: Kickstarter is a platform for investments and donations, not for pre-ordering.
This sort if shit can and will happen if the project you're funding is run by scam artists, people with no business sense or a mix of both. This appears to be putting the developer into the "people with no business sense" camp for now.

Is it really a scam when they themselves were scammed?

Here is a very detailed account of everything that is considered "public record".
Also, I don't know how these forums work, so I don't know how to make the link took all pretty like.
http://kotaku.com/how-a-successful-kickstarter-lost-half-a-million-dollar-1608877998

1. From Yogventures! : Project by
   Winterkewl Games LLC
   If they are the creator then they are responsible for the project and Yogscast can not be held responsible for its failure.

2. Is a creator legally obligated to fulfill the promises of their project?
   "Yes. Kickstarter's Terms of Use require creators to fulfill all rewards of their project or refund any backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill. (This is what creators see before they launch.) This information can serve as a basis for legal recourse if a creator doesn't fulfill their promises. We hope that backers will consider using this provision only in cases where they feel that a creator has not made a good faith effort to complete the project and fulfill."

3. The money problem
   Despite the fact that Yogscast is not responsible for the project it is understandable that hovewer this happened people would say they are responsible because their name is plastered all over it. So, how I see it dev proved to be a bad planner and Lewis wanted to get money that was left and handle the situation in a reasonable way (be it replacement, hiring new team, refunds, whatever) but he got 150K. 50k was supposed to go to physical rewards (and there was info that they were sent to pledgers; some got them and others didn't for unspecified reasons). The big issue 100k is under "no comment" zone. Now what could have happened to it:
   a) it was kept for possible "fixing the mistakes" fee (aka providing something different for failed project)
   b) production/sending of physical rewards was miscalculated (I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case considering how "well" the rest of planning went)
   c) it was used to expand the company (so they could afford to continue with this/fix it/do anything about it/not bankrupt and leave everyone with nothing like winterkewl did) - edit: they say money was spent on the project so this would be the "if they lied" option

4. But they were supposed to hire main programmer
   So after their artist left 2 weeks into the work + the time it took for them to debate the future of the project they asked a gamer to hire a programmer? How do you even start making a game without one?
   And as for why Yogs didn't want to provide coverage needed to get more money for the project. Well, this is how it started and you may only wonder what the hell happened to this

I'd like to remind some people that Yogscast are gamers, not game devs. Just because they are big now doesn't mean this was aways the case. They made some mistakes and they are trying to fix them. Maybe a bit late but at least it's not never.

Two questions:

1: Who the hell is Yogacast (or whatever.)
2: Why should I care?

This is why I never gave any money to "early access" "kickstarters" etc. It's a gamble, and I don't gamble. Once again gamers have only themselves to blame!

I don't think Yogscast got anything but headaches out of this really. But funny how they call the one who ran and took their money a "friend".
Anyway, all I can do is laugh at the fanboys for buying solely because of the name