And they'd respond, "Hey, thanks, that's almost a third of our advertising budget covered. How nice." Seriously. Look up how much they spent on advertising for Witcher 3.
I take it you can play through the entirety of Volgarr the Viking without dying, then? After all, it was Kickstarted, so it must have been dumbed down.
There are a lot of reasons why Kickstarter is a bad idea in this case: physical rewards always seeming to cost more than developers plan for, a lack of communication not flying in the crowdfunding sphere, them not needing the extra money, etcetera. Games being dumbed down isn't one of them, nor has there any been any indication that this is the case. Wasteland 2? Not dumbed down. Divinity: Original Sin? Not dumbed down. Pillars of Eternity? Not dumbed down. And etcetera again.
/micdrop