I for one are happy that kickstarters received a raw deal, noone should need to kickstart a game that can easily get funding ... if you think preordering a game ( which u can always cancel and get your money back from) is bad this is just crazy .. star citizen kind of crazy.
I am a day 1 Kickstarter backer.
No, what you are saying is a lie.
Shenmue 3 was in the talking since 2000, with a failed console (Dreamcast) and a canned online game that didn't made past pre-production phase in the middle of the following 15 years (15 years for fuck sake) .
Back then, everyone and their mothers believed that Kickstarter was the last resort, the only working desperation move that would give us our loved shenmue 3.
Even Yu Suzuki said that Shenmue 3 wouldn't be possible without Kickstarter.
Things changed when the KS campaign broke all records and basically fully reached the backing status in less than 48 hours.
So basically everyone understood with guilty delay how successful Shenmue could be in the right hands. Before that Shenmue was just "the video game black hole in which money are lost forever"
It was then that Sony, Epic, etc tried to milk the cow and the KS backers were seen simply as an annoyance
KS backers like me were switched from a necessary, lovely fans who allow the dream of Shenmue 3 to live on, to a problem that needs to be shut up asap because "muh maneyyyyy!!! 1!!1!!!"
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