Sony has just confirmed that now that the Kickstarter goal has been reached they are in fact helping with funding and development of Shenmue 3

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NiKKoM said:

Talal said:

While I agree that Kickstarter shouldn't be used like this, the bolded is not very logical. The people who funded Shenmue funded it because it's Shenmue. It's not like this money would have gone towards funding a different game if Shenmue didn't exist.

More then 30% are repeating backers at kickstarter so yeah at least a large amount of money could have went to another project.. I'm worried about kickstarter.. More and more are calling it an abuse when multi billion dollar corporations are using it like this.. This is harmfull for smaller projects

Nope its not. Shenmue 3 is my second kickstarter i backed, the other is bloodstained. I never used kickstarter before because i dont like indie games, because i dont know the people behind them. This is how the majority of people feel who backed mighty no9, yakee yollee, bloodstained and now shenmue.

Its not taking away from indie devolopers because those wouldnt have goten any money anways from me.