Why I'm not happy about the Shenmue III Kickstarter

[Cloudman]

kurasakiichimaru said:

Cloudman said:

kurasakiichimaru said:

Archaic options like that are reasons why a lot of games are never greenlit. Shenmue was never been a Playstation game, you can't expect a sizeable fanbase to support a game that never came to their platform. The risks are high that the game will flop without an inkling of support from the Sega fans. Gaming is business not a charity.

That is how business works. Businesses are supposed to sell the product to the consumer. The consumer are not the ones to fund products. Also, there have been other games that were new to other consoles and have sold well. Who is to say Shenmue can't do the same?

I didn't know a stockholder is prohibited from buying his own products from a company he inversted in cause that basically contradict your post.

Your arguments are based on what-ifs scenarios.

I don't mean stockholders, but just standard consumers. It's up to publishers or companies to fund and sell these sort of things, not us. Businesses sell us the product, and we either buy it or don't. That's business. You're also assuming because Shenmue has never been on a Playstation, that it will not sell well, which is not the case. There are games that have done the same and have sold well.