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

[Cloudman]

Hynad said:

Cloudman said:

Talal said:

Cloudman said:
u_u Way to go Sony... Nice to have fans donate money for you to decide to fund the game...

You do realise that people funding the game will get it right? So "donation" is not the right word. They're buying the rewards listed.

They are testing to see if people are interested by trying to have them raise 2 mil dollars to see if it's worth it. That is one of the worst things I have ever heard. I am plenty sure some people gave more than the bare minimum for the game. This is going down a very dangerous route. I don't want this to end up where people have to give money just to check if some games are worth making. It's seems outright awful.

What is bad about it? You give whatever you want, and in the end, you get what you've paid for, based on how much money you pledged.

How is this bad in any way, tell me.

This whole idea of using kickstarter as a way to gauge interest in products sounds sounds like a bad idea imo. If this becomes a growing tread, I feel that in order to get new games or revive old IPs, consumers will have to show interesting by giving money to products to reach a certain goal to see if it's worth it. That doesn't sound like a very good thing to me. It sort of sends a message to me of "Show us you want this product, or we will not make it"

That is a sort of thing I got from the Shenmue reveal. Sony presented it a way that they showed interest, but used kickstarter to test if it was worth it, which sounds rather terrible, especially coming from sony.