Shenmue Dojo

I like how he tweeted that almost a year after fans had stopped crying for Shenmue 3.

Spaghetti wrote: 21st March 2017

$6,730,004 (+$4,473)

74,042 backers (+68)

WOW. Nearly $4500 in 8 days, and nearly 70 new backers. Dev Room Update 2 seems to have been a big hit!

30th March 2017

$6,736,829 (+$4,940)

74,093 backers (+30)

I said DAMN.

Officially over $400,000 raised since the Slacker Backer campaign launched in September 2015.

I'm sure we'll reach those $7,000,000 eventually.
If not thanks to a massive amount of new backers, probably thanks to the pledges upgrade option (if they really add this by the end of the Slacker backer).

Damn that is some great progress.

The PC version has helped, and 7 million is very much possible if things play out right, ie. Good E3 showing, HD remasters, and a final date reveal and promotional push from the community to get it over the infamous 7 million line, pushing the "almost there" mentality.

Where do we sign for all of this happening (in any order) ?

$7 million could definitely happen by the end of the year if the Slacker Backer campaign stays open that long (which I guess is dependant on a delay), and if the totals keep snowballing each week like this.

The stretch goals don't really mean much anymore, but it'd be nice to round off the crowdfunding campaign on a big number like $7 mil.

A few crowd pleasing video updates/new screens will help, but appearing at a game show like E3 is probably what will drive a serious uptick in support so... roll on June.

That is impressive numbers not seen in quite some time...

I wonder what's changed? I'm sure tax refund season has a small hand in it. We shall see what the next two months bring in. I really think $7 million is reachable, especially by the end of the year, which is what they had said it'd most likely last til. It could go above that, depending on how strong the E3 reveal is.

March update, probably. Although the glimpses were fleeting, it's kind of the first real look at the game in action we've had, and seems to have quietly inspired a burst of confidence in the product from people who previously may have been fence-sitters.

There are still shit talkers about that update, but I think we're starting to see they're just a vocal minority.

all this money will go into shenmue 4!

Spaghetti wrote:

Spaghetti wrote: 21st March 2017

$6,730,004 (+$4,473)

74,042 backers (+68)

WOW. Nearly $4500 in 8 days, and nearly 70 new backers. Dev Room Update 2 seems to have been a big hit!

30th March 2017

$6,736,829 (+$4,940)

74,093 backers (+30)

I said DAMN.

Officially over $400,000 raised since the Slacker Backer campaign launched in September 2015.

31st March 2017

$6,737,278 (+$449)

74,099 backers (+6) (+$74/backer)

What's really amazing to me is how high the average contributions per backer seem to be. This was also true during the Kickstarter. People who want this game, *really* want this game.

Anonymous81 wrote: What's really amazing to me is how high the average contributions per backer seem to be. This was also true during the Kickstarter. People who want this game, *really* want this game.

That's true. Most of the backers go for the physical version... at least.

It's going to depend on how much money is left over after buying, marrying and how our spending gauge is going to be, but I'll be looking in to upgrading the 300 dollars tier to 500 if life permits it. We'll see, I'm already very satisfied with 2x physical, a trail version and a signed collectors edition. Guess I can't be too greedy =)