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Dr.Vita on 17 July 2015

Gooo Shenmue 3!!! PS4 is the best place to play!!!
What is the world record?




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Roronaa_chan on 17 July 2015
Dr.Vita said:
Gooo Shenmue 3!!! PS4 is the best place to play!!!
What is the world record?


5.6M

it's 63k away from doing it right now. Easily done



tiffac on 17 July 2015
Dr.Vita said:
Gooo Shenmue 3!!! PS4 is the best place to play!!!
What is the world record?

To be exact its $5,545,911 for BloodStained.

Shenmue 3 as of this posting is at $5,541,006 with 13 hours to go.



tiffac on 17 July 2015

Well its over, Shenmue 3 takes the cake and has overthrown BloodStained as king.

Yu should really be thankful for the community, they really ran this KS for Ys Net.



Guitarguy on 17 July 2015

Will there be options to continue supporting the game after Kickstarter? Much like Star Citizen? 6 million is not enough for a full Shenmue game in my opinion...



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tiffac on 17 July 2015
Guitarguy said:
Will there be options to continue supporting the game after Kickstarter? Much like Star Citizen? 6 million is not enough for a full Shenmue game in my opinion...


Maybe they will announce something after the KS has officially ended. If Yu wants this to be a real open world game like GTA then $6M definitely won't be enough but if its going to be like Yakuza, its probably doable in a much smaller scale.



Guitarguy on 17 July 2015
tiffac said:
Guitarguy said:
Will there be options to continue supporting the game after Kickstarter? Much like Star Citizen? 6 million is not enough for a full Shenmue game in my opinion...


Maybe they will announce something after the KS has officially ended. If Yu wants this to be a real open world game like GTA then $6M definitely won't be enough but if its going to be like Yakuza, its probably doable in a much smaller scale.


I hope they do. I think it would really be selling Shenmue short if they only had a 6 million dollar budget(even less considering Kickstarter get a decent percentage).



Ganoncrotch on 17 July 2015
tiffac said:
ganoncrotch said:


Very worrying considering if you have 20 staff earning $500 a week - $520,000 per year or $1,300,000 over 2.5 years... and that is just for 20 staff to work on it, considering Kickstarter Site takes a 5% cut I believe from the end amount and 5% goes to the people envolved in collecting the money... Talking about a large chunk gone out of that money already, and that is not even considering renting an office or electricity/PCs to work on the game lol.

Will definately need an injection of Money from someone down the line as it draws closer to time to buy some disks to ship this on.

Is that the standard wage for the staff in Japan or the US?

Not sure tbh, I was just going off my wage as IT support would be in that region. if you think a game will need far more than 20 staff tho you're talking about 2/3x that amount, could just soak up all the money in staff wages alone.



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Lafiel on 17 July 2015
Nuvendil said:
BraLoD said:
I'm surprised it didn't break the record yet.


It doesn't look as well run as some others I've seen.  Like not much there to keep the hype going.  For example, Kingdom Come: Deliverance was a very, very well run Kickstarter.  If the Shenmue 3 one had had that level of effort and planning it probably could have smashed the record.

I think the biggest thing holding the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter back is that the game is very very very early in development. If they already came a good way people would be more confident to back the project and they'd have a lot more to show to keep the hype up.

Ofcourse that would have ment spending 2-4 millions up front for development with no real indication on whether or not the huge risk doing that is worth it in any way.



tiffac on 17 July 2015
ganoncrotch said:

Not sure tbh, I was just going off my wage as IT support would be in that region. if you think a game will need far more than 20 staff tho you're talking about 2/3x that amount, could just soak up all the money in staff wages alone.

Well you may not be wrong either, from what I understand wages do eat up a lot of the development funds anyways.

 

Guitarguy said:

I hope they do. I think it would really be selling Shenmue short if they only had a 6 million dollar budget(even less considering Kickstarter get a decent percentage).

I'm actually more worried if they go the real open world route. I think that would just be too much for a small team but if they would just do a Yakuza level of development. I think they would be able to achieve it and do better. I mean the world of Yakuza isn't that big anyways.