Forum - View topicNEWS: Shenmue III is Fastest Video Game to Raise US$1 Million on Crowdfunding Platform
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KH91
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Shenmue domination. I see it getting to 8-10 million.
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Hameyadea
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The few reasons I can think of why each subtitle language pack are in $100,000 increments is due to either the additional translation team costs, or that there is that much text in the game.
At of time of posting, the campaign has accumulated over $3.1 million. Best of luck to them. Last edited by Hameyadea on Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:20 am; edited 1 time in total |
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RAmmsoldat
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I know I donated, it's shenmue 3 after all I loved the first 2.
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Wandering Samurai
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That is how much the series was loved. That record as far as video games go will probably not get broken for a long time to come. They are going until July 17th, so it will more than likely get all the goals and then some.
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Sunset In the Hood
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"Record Breaking Shenmue 3"
And then Oda says "I need 10 million to make a One Piece open world RPG that's almost like Witcher." |
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anddo
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For Shenmue? It's worth it. I'm a backer too.
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Lady Multi
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Worth every penny. I'm a backer; and I pulled out my Dreamcast copies of the 1st two games right after I backed it. They're chilling on my desk... and my Dreamcast hack CD is in the case with Shenmue II. So I'm all good to replay.
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Lady Multi
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Time, effort, coding. So translation and typesetting. Fansub quality and official quality are different. And games have been fan-translated before. It takes a long time for modern games... I mean look at how long it took that group to fan-translate Tales of Vesperia for PS3. |
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Lemonchest
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Shame it's turned out to be little more than a publicity stunt by Sony, who are funding the actual development of the game but I guess wanted to do a Veronica Mars type thing & get paid by the potential buyers to do the pre-production market & research stuff before fully committing.
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Themaster20000
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I thought it was a smart move. They wanted to see the demand,before throwing millions of dollars into a very expensive game like. Now if only Capcom did the same with Mega Man Legends 3  .
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Lemonchest
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For a game that likely will cost $50-100million if it's not going to be a big downgrade of previous installments (remember Shenmue was the most expensive game ever made at the time), raising 3-4mill is little more than rent money at best. All these things reflect is that Sony et al have figured out that instead of paying a market research company to do this testing the waters marketing stuff, you can now put something with a known but dormant fanbase on kickstarter & get them to pay to do that work for you, & get a bucket load of free publicity & goodwill brand association on top of that. |
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Emerje
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I don't know where they're getting their production money from, but I don't think it's Sony. If it were then there'd be a physical copy for PS4 and there isn't at any level, not even a stretch goal, only for PC and it's a normal tier. It's more like they made a deal with Sony to make a digital copy of the game for them in exchange for Sony promoting it at their E3 conference. If Sony had any real involvement in the game's development there'd be things like a Vita port and PS4 only perks. Anyway, it has now passed $3.2M so that's another goal unlocked. Hopefully the overwhelming show of support will mean PC ports of the first two games. Emerje |
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Fatt_One
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Sony did confirm they're funding the game though. |
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Polycell
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Emerje
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They can't be investing much, maybe they had low expectations? I suppose they could add some Sony centric stuff to the stretch goals since they'll likely clear all of them over the weekend. Emerje |
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