IGN continues to Fumble Funding Facts

[Axm]

Thank you, Axm. I've been flooding commentary boxes with corrections for weeks now. It's just trolling at this point, which in itself is a sad commentary on the state of gaming culture. The idea that a successful 15 year cult effort would be put down and muddled by uninvolved people standing on undeserved soapboxes is shameful.

In the very first Forbes hit piece, the author didn't even know Shenmue 3 was pretty far into pre-production before the Shen2x failure. I mean, these are facts that could be gleaned from a cursory glance at Wikipedia. Shoddy journalism hardly more sophisticated than our own prolific Dojo cynicism over the years, the crucial difference being that we were joking among ourselves, not trying to derail a historic funding effort.

We expect that sort of behavior from blogs, but it just goes to show that the higher ups at magazines like Forbes know nothing about the history of video games, and delegate such articles to amateurs.

The Dojo should publish an exhaustive article specifically correcting all the misinformation.

Rant over.