Here's the realtalk, no-bullshit, unjokey stone-cold reality of fig: It's not for you. The projects are so few and far between, so heavily curated, and so packaged that there's no real "kickstarter magic" to any of it.
The game has 75 total backers with 82k invested. And all that's from outside investments- I did some envelope math and totalled up the reward tiers claimed, and of the 82, 681 invested 2671 of that has come from traditional crowdfunding. The other 80k is, I assume, entirely from outside investors looking for a cut of the actual profits.
Like, to me, the biggest "appeal" of kickstarter is to visit the site and stumble across some appealing project from a superstar dev, no-name indie, or even a one-man team and to watch it succeed, watch it grow, to feel a part of something "bigger". To help that along, whether that be via visibility or outright monetary investment. I've lost a lot of faith in crowdfunding, especially recently when it feels like it's lost that sort of independent, community-focused edge into yet another monetization platform. But stuff like Undertale has been able to recapture the magic and promise that crowdfunding at its most idealized had (on top of being by-far the best kickstarter success story to date in terms of objective quality).
Fig has none of that. They're not interested in fostering a community, they're not interested in the appeal of ks' "stumbling" and the idea of naturalized growth in a product or building interest organically. Kickstarters form their own narratives organically- think of smashing day-one successes or the slow build to a last-day miracle, or the crushing story of the project that just barely doesn't make its goal. All those things form stories, things that generate interest in them. Fig can't do that because every Fig project has clearly been calculated out weeks and even months beforehand before it's ever presented. It showcases one project and that's it - they are very simply selling you a product.
There's no sense of creativity or that sort of grungy, make-it-up-as-you-go-along organic atmosphere that certain kickstarters have had, because every fig project is perfectly clean and endlessly packaged and repackaged, every word presented and edited to be as neat and appealing as possible. There's never gonna be an "awful Fig thread" because every fig project is a foregone conclusion- they don't care about the public at large's money, they're there for private, profit-sharing investment. If some dudes in the public kick in a couple of grand, well, the money's still green, but that's not the focus.
I doubt that any fig project will ever fail, because the secret is they're guaranteed successes before they even launch- fig more than likely already secured exactly enough funding before the project ever launches for it to work regardless of whatever the public does. Fig is an investment firm with a crowdfunding model attached, just to pick up some extra cash or (more likely) to increase press visibility. And that's, you know, fine - like genuinely, it's a fine thing for them to do - but makes me supremely disinterested in ever backing any project they announce. They'll succeed with or without my money.