Why not just pledge $29 then? Unless you think that is an unreasonable amount for the game.Sony / Sega: "Thanks for the free focus test / development cost discount."
*proceed to tape their dicks up in $100 bills*
Enjoy your fruit of the loom quality merch, capsule toy or your name credited in a thirty minute long credits sequence nobody will watch
And Sony has helped fund games such as SF5 which will never be released on Xbox.
Oh that justifies publishers getting development discounts, I didn't know that, nvmAre the whales getting anything in return?
The Shenmue series started with Shenmue II?
I hope so. Console giants funding PC games? That's the stuff of dreams.this might influence the rest of the kickstarter days
I'm reading half of these complaints in Shawn Elliots "Ralphie" voice from GFW radio.
The game I have been waiting for more than half my life is being made. They could be using black magic for all I care as long as it's being made.
June 15th: Shenmue III revealed at the Sony E3 Event
June 16th: "I wish they would have said there was some kind of partnership with Sony"
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A Kickstarter is never an investment. You are not investing money and gaining a stake in the outcome. You are donating.
Can Sony do a Legend of Dragoon reboot from Studio Japan KS at French Game Show next?
I'm a fan of any approach that gets me Shenmue freaking Three.
Kickstarter is generally used to fund projects that can't get funding through traditional means.
Sony is a Giant Mega Dollars Corporation. If they wanted Shenmue 3, they have the money to fund it. This is a billion dollar company asking for crowd-funding handouts.
This is also the second time they've done this.
The people in this thread make me so depressed about the gaming community in 2015.
What is happening here is basically a gaming miracle.
The attempt among certain "concerned" individuals to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory... just astounding.
Suzuki owns Shenmue now, Sega has nothing to do with Shenmue 3
SEGA has officially given us the rights to use the "Shenmue" license.
Too saltyWhat's wrong with fruit of the loom? Lol
If Shenmue wasn't struggling to get funded you'd think people wouldn't have to wait for over a fucking decade.That's pretty underhanded in my opinion. KS should be for games that genuinely struggle to receive funding, not to gauge interest in a game before a publisher commits to a project.
What do I win?
LOL.
I don't care how the sausage is being made. Just get. In. My. Belly.
Will there be an Xbox/Wii U/Linux/Mac version for Shenmue 3?
Currently we are planning development only for PC (Windows) and PS4. Other platforms have not been decided yet.
:lol that's a nice way to spin it. There's interest, the goal has been met, why not stop it now and just open a pre-order page? Because they want the free money whales give them
So the game wouldn't have existed if it weren't for Sony?
So donating 2 million is to gauge interest? Why not a survey, poll or market research like, you know, usually happens.
I'm not a fan of this approach, I think it's sly.
Kinda shitty of them not to admit there was some sort of connection up front, but that's the world we live in...
Gio Corsi quote:
"Absolutely. First off, Shenmue III was the number one ask on the whole #BuildingTheList campaign, so when that first started, right off the bat, 'Shenmue III, Shenmue III, Shenmue III.' So this has been an ask for as long as I've been at PlayStation. And we met with Suzuki-san at GDC last year and we started the long road to try and figure out how we were going to get this whole thing made.
"We said, 'the only way this is going to happen is if fans speak up,' and we thought Kickstarter was the perfect place to do this. So we set a goal for $2 million and if the fans come in and back it, then absolutely, we're going to make this a reality. So, Sony and PlayStation are definitely a partner in this game, and it's going to be run through Third Party Productions with Ys Net. We're going to get the game done. We're going to be partners the whole way, and we're really excited to see this thing come out in a couple of years."
Yes, over the past 15 years Yu Suzuki has been defending himself from all the numerous offers to develop Shenmue III. They were just too good. It was only until Kickstarter came to be Suzuki & co wanted to create Shenmue III as they wanted to exploit the fans.
#cancelshenemue
The TLG complaints in the other thread kind of bugged me too.
Sony should remaster the first two games in 1080p/60fps, put them on PSN and say all profits made from the sale of the games will go directly into development of Shenmue III.
What's shitty about it isn't so much the seeming duplicitous nature of it, but rather how Sony benefits from it.
If there was no Kickstarter and Sony funded it 100%, each consumer is only going to spend whatever the retail cost of the game, say $60.
But how the pricing is tiered, there's already been 9,385 backers that paid more than retail for the game.
People were under the assumption that backing the game would go directly into the pockets of the developers who needed the funding, but were not also getting funding elsewhere. "Yu Suzuki needs money to make a masterpiece, here's $10k or $300!"
Let Sony foot the fucking bill, they are flush with cash. They could give Suzuki $50 million dollars and if it flops, no big deal.
I'm a backer, and I am upset that there was no transparency involved.
Like I said earlier and someone else mentioned, when Nintendo saved Bayonetta, did they come up with a faux kickstarter to gauge interest? No, they just made it for the fans. No shady business. We have a clear precedent here with a company handling this kind of situation the right way, and we have today with a company handling it the wrong way.
People should have known from the beginning that they were just gauging interest.
lol welp!Microsoft did that same shit back with Shenmue 2, stop bitching.
That's exactly why people are mad. I'm sure if MS or Nintendo had done the same, some of the people whining in this thread wouldn't be whining right now.Kickstarter is for games to be crowd funded that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
Shenmue III is a game that hasn't "happened" for like 15 years. Sony got on board only because KS made it possible for fans to subsidize the game. Otherwise they, like every other publisher on the industry for the past 15 years, would've passed on the project.
This is a problem how? The game wasn't going to happen otherwise, as Sony wasn't going to be footing the whole bill. I think people are just being childishly salty about this just because it happened under the Sony banner at E3.