I'll repost my comment from Stern's Facebook post about this...
It's straight up wrong that these Kickstarters exist. Alliance Media Holdings makes $60 million in sales per year, THEY CAN ABSORB THE LICENSING RISK ON THEIR OWN. When Stern makes a new pinball machine they don't come out trying to fleece us into taking their risk for them. Maybe I wouldn't mind if Farsight's products were actually good, but The Pinball Arcade is a glitchy mess, and the fact that they continue to ask for hundreds of thousands of dollars from fans (in addition to the sales that this funding will bring them) is incredibly disrespectful to anyone who supports their products.
Seriously, DON'T give your money for this crap. Farsight can and should be paying for it.