I feel this was worth making its own thread over as it has kind of been buried deep in the whole Shenmue III Kickstarter debacle thread despite being some pretty important piece of news. A lot of people kind of vowed against Kickstarting games, especially PC ones after Epic secured exclusivity for Shenmue III but I think the solution Sweeney proposes here is somewhat sound. Fortnite money is definitely at play here. What do you think, Era?
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Epic is funding the cost of all Kickstarter refunds resulting from Shenmue III's move to the Epic Games store, so that refunds won't reduce Ys Net's development funding.
When future games go Epic-exclusive after offering crowdfunding rewards on other PC stores, we'll either coordinate with colleagues at the other stores to ensure key availability in advance, or guarantee refunds at announcement time.