This deal reeks of Deep Silver pocketing in the money. LOL
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Shenmue III is timed exclusive to Epic Games Store, backers PC code redeemed on EGS & no refund (See Threadmark) [READ STAFF POSTS BEFORE POSTING]
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This deal reeks of Deep Silver pocketing in the money. LOL
Too bad they got money by scamming their backers. I'm sad to hear we wont get a Shenmue IV since they burned a shiton of bridge for another crowdfunding.
Where you waiting for the Steam version? I came into the thread because this is some shady shit.
Excuse me? These trolls are backers, maybe check the kickstarter page where the comments are backers only and see the reaction there. Yeah people are pissed.
I wouldn't blame just Shenmue for this. This is the third somewhat popular crowdfunded game that has done this.
Again, that probably won't be the case when getting into the weeds in defining what has been "delivered" on certain digital rewards tiers where assets have been created and implemented.
It's not so much getting out of the contract, but finding the wiggle room to resolve the issue. You'd hope sensible enough business minds could see being flexible could help clear this situation up a lot, but then again I'm surprised nobody planned for a backlash like this in the first place.
It's cute that you think Yu Suzuki and his team are getting most of that money and not Deep Silver.
At this point I doubht Suzuki is getting any money from this. It clearly is a Deep Silver decision.
*sigh* This is so annoying. I already told them via my Kickstarter survey that I wanted Steam. What are they gonna do for that now?
I'm a backer, also someone who has been waiting 18 years for it. If i'm a troll for calling out shady business practices then so be it.
Yeah like:
Popular Kickstarter Game
Being Published By A Pub They Have An Existing Relationship
Runs on Unreal
All the damn signs were there
i'm just glad that the only crowdfunded game I currently have money in(wasteland 3) decided not to be dicks and fuck me over
it's sad that that's apparently something worthy of praise now but I guess that's just where we're at nowadays,i'll probably be avoiding crowdfunding in general going forward
it's sad that that's apparently something worthy of praise now but I guess that's just where we're at nowadays,i'll probably be avoiding crowdfunding in general going forward
They did. I ordered a Steam version with what it means. I'm not getting it. Have you ever heard of what a contract is ? Because that's what it became once I filled the fangamer order.
I was offered a Steam key, I backed for a Steam digital version of the game, it was changed without my consent, without my opinion and I do not prefer nor want EGS. Yeah I was swindled.
its always a good sign when people start to try and organize legal action against you in your twitter replies
Yeah the tools of today thankfully help the community to stand up for themselves together. Stuff like this was impossible back in the days
It's not a matter of opinion. The kickstarter has no legal binding.
What does have a legal binding is the fangamer order. On kickstarter you dont buy anything. But when you passed through Fangamer, it became an order. You bought something from a store.
It's like this move on it's own was bad enough, but we also got that embarrassing trailer to really rub salt in our wounds. Tough day to be Shenmue fan.
Time to change your luck with a game of Lucky Hit!
Yeah, I get that.
It'd be interesting to get the behind-the-scenes story on the development of this game one day, with regards to the deals made with Shibuya, Sony, Deep Silver, and now Epic. The first delay to late 2018 was soon followed by news of Deep Silver taking over as publisher. Then the delay from August 2019 to November 2019 is followed shortly after by the Epic deal. Were the deals pushed by Suzuki/Ys Net to buy themselves more development time?
I hate that Shenmue had to get sucked into this bullshit. The last thing it needs is to piss off a segment of fence sitters that wanted to give the franchise a chance.
Reminder that the report button is useless. KS didn't feedback even after a month has passed.
Or, y'know, give 'em a Steam key. Which is what I think they'll probably wind up doing.
I think the trailers scared away the fence sitters.
These overwhelmingly negative PR snafus exterminated the fan base.
How do i get my money back?
Ys already sabotaged my PS4 copy with their region decided based on shipping address nonsense. Now my Steam copy too?
Tired: Twitter Ratios
Wired: Kickstarter Update Ratios
Don't know that I've seen a Kickstarter update post ratioed before, but this is the only project I've ever backed.
Wired: Kickstarter Update Ratios
Don't know that I've seen a Kickstarter update post ratioed before, but this is the only project I've ever backed.
There's probably not other story rather than Epic offering money and Deep Silver went all in with their portfolio.
Thanks. It made it more clear than the other posts i was redirected to.
It's not just fence sitters. I'm a longtime fan who has been waiting for this game for 15 years or so, and I backed in the first hour of the project going live. I'm now trying to get a refund and have no intention to ever spend money on this game. The contempt they have for their fans has really pissed me off.
Ok. This is a sad day for gamers and and shenmue. First I want to say that I think it's wrong for fans who waited for 20years to let this destroy their own series they waited forever for. It's not like the game was cancel, I do agree that it was wronged that it switch from steam to epic but I'm tired of gamers picking up pitchforks and changing tone 1 sec. I do belive that you Suzuki was prob tricked into going into epic and prob didn't see the difference from the two so I bet he is confused wit the outcry. To him he prob didn't think he tricked users just that epic store wasn't better, it was prob deep silver that's the one to blame. But hey if we don't get shenmue 4 now I hope the fans are happy when this dies down
Maybe for the Epic exclusivity deal, but I get the impression that the Deep Silver deal was likely done due to diminishing funds for development. I know that there was funding from Shibuya Productions in addition to the Kickstarter money, but I doubt all of that together would have funded the dev team for four years.
I'd be surprised if there were fence sitters to begin with. This game is almost exclusively for fans of the previous 2 games, which makes it weird that they wanna make it exclusive on a platform where most the users weren't even alive and won't give the new game a moments notice.
I went to go see the trailer because of this post. What's so bad about it? Are people expecting a AAA Yakuza title here somehow? It's the same bad kung-fu-dub Shenmue we know and love, and the visuals look great for what is essentially a B-title with a low budget. Honestly, this is why B-tier gaming has gone extinct. Anything touching a 7/10 or lesser than Last of Us fidelity feels like a death sentence.
Yep gamers have become shallow and expect everything to look like last of us games or dare I say Anthem. Because graphics equal good gameplay
The way to do it is just vow not tto take money from the Epic Store to remove yourself from Steam. I think Firmanent from Cyan only got the backing because they promised not to do that....
I don't think these type of exclusivity deals happen by accident. They must have known what they were doing, and if not incompetence isn't a good look either.
Hopefully it's a timed exclusive. Otherwise that's a hard pass from me. This is the one game they should not have done this for.
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