I'm referring to more of a feeling that I have in regards to my faith in the finished product and its state on arrival than in how its been managed when I made that comparison.
But then I'm paranoid like that, I've only ever backed 3 things. 2 of which were pretty well sure to happen.
even then, what's even the comparison to star citizen? the shenmue 3 kickstarter wrapped up in july, and the current paypal drive is to cater to those who asked for that option. they've completed what suzuki calls the 'game flow' and have exited the planning phase, so it's not like they're expecting floods of money to come in from the paypal drive. star citizen is weird unworkable vapourware, shenmue 3 is like barely three months into production.
I may be mistaken, but I am sure that the unreached stretch goals were on the kickstarter page when the initial campaign ended so it was no secret that they would want more money.
It is probably an unfortunate consequence of some of these big video game kickstarters that a big chunk of the game is sealed behind stretch goals, but it creates the mentality that we should be getting a "complete" game at the minimum. Take a look at what we would have gotten at the minimum level of Mighty No 9 or Bloodstained, they would have been barebones.
That chart Kuchera shows also adds nothing to the conversation as we know Bloodstained has a few million dollars from a publisher and tells us nothing about quality/timeliness of the project/additional funds/etc.
yeah. i think kuchera is just sniping at that quote from the eurogamer interview in probably the dumbest way possible. ask pretty much any indie developer if they'd like more money to develop their project with, you're highly unlikely to hear "naw son, we good" as a response.
he's trying to paint yu suzuki, who cried with appreciation at the end of the kickstarter final day livestream, as someone who is ungrateful for the support of fans when it's plainly clear the support of fans is something he values immensely, to even the point where he actually hires them to work on shenmue 3.
some people like to live in their own narrative bubble. kuchera is one of those people.