It's that attitude that's starting to allow you to be played like chumps by people willing to subvert the intention of the system. The original intention behind crowd funding is to enable a creator to pitch a project that would otherwise not see the light of day. The funds are intended to develop the project to a…
How did the above example (Chivalry) benefit the consumer? It may have benefited Chivalry by lining their pockets, but that does mean it also detracted funds from projects that actually required funding.
So expecting a reward is bad because it encourages potential exploitation? Is that your whole problem with kickstarter and how crowd funding being used? Most of the physical products (I'd include movies) on kickstarter are fully realized and just need investment in order to get reasonably priced products out to consumers…