yvanjean said:
Sony rather than funding Shenmue 3 screwed their fans by having them kick start the games. This kick starter while gauging interest is also reducing Sony overall risk and increasing their future profit. While at the same time receiving a major marketing boost for being connect to Shenmue 3. Kickstarter was meant to be use by small developer with the support of fan to produce a game that would never of seen the light of day. Now a big corporation like Sony is abusing the nature of kick starter to increase their profit and reduce their risks. I think this move actually set a very bad precedent.
The big winner is not the fans. It’s Sony. Free marketing and increase profit and potential earnings. The kick starter is probably going to raise like 4-5 million dollars these funds are sunk funds that on guarantee that the project will get started. None of that money will yell any future earnings or have any quality guarantee. |
How is this screwing the fans? You can spend $29 and guarentee yourself a copy of the game. Anything that guages interest reduces risk...that's the point of guaging interest...
The big winner is absolutely the fans. Without something like kickstarter to see how badly people wanted the game, we'd likely never see Shenmue 3 since everyone else has been passing up on it for the last 14 years.
First, it was that Shenmue 3 wasn't going to be good with such a small budget because Sony wouldn't fund it. Now that you know Sony is funding and helping make the game it's bad that they wanted to be sure people would actually buy the game first?
What it all comes down to is that before the Sony connference, we were never going to see another Shemnue game. Now, a new one is on the way and it's going to be well funded and will be well supported.
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