These keyboard warriors just work themselves into this insane E3 frenzy, and then feel this delusional sense of authority and need to "police the industry."
Nope, it's ok to fully crowdfund a game, what it's not ok is crowdfund a game that already has a publisher with enough money to fund it themselves, that's when it crosses the line.
Exactly!! None of these.people are backers.
The people complaining about the process are the people who seem to be unfamiliar with how Kickstarter works. While this is not unexpected, it also undercuts their arguments.
The difference is that Grim Fandango was an inexpensive project to fund. Sony is going to have to pony up at least $10M of their own money on Shenmue, so they're going to put stricter conditions on it.
You don't seem to get it. Backers are going for higher tiers because they want to. Some will do so because they want the swag, and others will do so because they really believe in the project and they are willing to contribute to see it happen. It's like how Notch will put in $10,000 pledges into all sorts of projects. Moreover, until the campaign ends, any backer can change their pledge or cancel it altogether. Nobody is being cheated - even the part about Shenmue 3 not seeing the light of day if the campaign fails is true. The only thing that wasn't already public was that Sony was going to contribute the balance of the funding, and even that was obvious to anyone familiar with Kickstarter.
Seems Kickstarter don't agree with you about that first point.
I would like to think an average game fan that knows what Shenmue is understands this game can't be made solely on $2 million. If not than I don't know what to tell those people.
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Not yet, and until we do my money stays where it is.
