AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
Tonight, the culmination of 14 years of hopelessness was finally erased as Shenmue III became the all-time most successful videogame Kickstarter campaign. Nearly 70,000 people pledged between $29 and $10,000 for a chance to fund the game and get awesome swag.
While that amount is almost 15% higher than the next highest videogame Kickstarter (Bloodstained), many of us in the rabid Shenmue community believe it could have gone even higher with just a few more things going in the campaign's favor: Paypal donating (which is coming, and might have removed urgency from the campaign had it been announced any earlier), a better run campaign by a more experienced staff than Awesome Japan (who did a mostly noble job down the stretch, but was borderline pathetic during the first week of the campaign), better tiers between 29 and 100 dollars (some of which eventually did happen, but some of that was too little too late), and last, but not least, Shenmue I and II HD ports.
I think one of the keys to the future success of the Paypal campaign, as well as the series itself (Shenmue IV, V, and VI, proverbially) is that new people and fans of the old game have an easier time playing it than through a difficult-to-deal-with emulator or shelling out money for copies of the games and a Dreamcast.
My idea is to pester the hell out of Sega until we get a concrete answer, and then if that answer isn't favorable, to pester them more. Let's be like Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption and write a letter a month. They can't ignore us forever. Might as well use the 3rd of the month, as well, since that has worked well for the fans up until now.
This can and should be done through Twitter, Blog postings, emails, smoke signals, hand-written notes in the vein of the Four Wude, etc.
I propose using the hashtag #SaveShenmue, of course, but we could also use #ShenmueHD or something to that effect.
Can anyone bang out a good, simple and clean tweet we can use as a template, complete with hashtags?
Sega just recently said they are looking to win back their reputation from the early 90s when they were flying high. They are trying to be a game developer and publisher than people can trust again. Let's make it known that publishing Shenmue I and II ports would be amazing for this campaign and would surely gain them a ton of sales. I personally read many comments of people who would have donated, but have been unable to figure out a way to play the originals.
While that amount is almost 15% higher than the next highest videogame Kickstarter (Bloodstained), many of us in the rabid Shenmue community believe it could have gone even higher with just a few more things going in the campaign's favor: Paypal donating (which is coming, and might have removed urgency from the campaign had it been announced any earlier), a better run campaign by a more experienced staff than Awesome Japan (who did a mostly noble job down the stretch, but was borderline pathetic during the first week of the campaign), better tiers between 29 and 100 dollars (some of which eventually did happen, but some of that was too little too late), and last, but not least, Shenmue I and II HD ports.
I think one of the keys to the future success of the Paypal campaign, as well as the series itself (Shenmue IV, V, and VI, proverbially) is that new people and fans of the old game have an easier time playing it than through a difficult-to-deal-with emulator or shelling out money for copies of the games and a Dreamcast.
My idea is to pester the hell out of Sega until we get a concrete answer, and then if that answer isn't favorable, to pester them more. Let's be like Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption and write a letter a month. They can't ignore us forever. Might as well use the 3rd of the month, as well, since that has worked well for the fans up until now.
This can and should be done through Twitter, Blog postings, emails, smoke signals, hand-written notes in the vein of the Four Wude, etc.
I propose using the hashtag #SaveShenmue, of course, but we could also use #ShenmueHD or something to that effect.
Can anyone bang out a good, simple and clean tweet we can use as a template, complete with hashtags?
Sega just recently said they are looking to win back their reputation from the early 90s when they were flying high. They are trying to be a game developer and publisher than people can trust again. Let's make it known that publishing Shenmue I and II ports would be amazing for this campaign and would surely gain them a ton of sales. I personally read many comments of people who would have donated, but have been unable to figure out a way to play the originals.
