Yokosuka wrote: It's only an opinion piece with a lot of legitimate questions but obviously with the wrong deductions.
Please don't speak ill of him behind his back. If you really believe in Shenmue III, you know that all doubters and critics will close themselves after the trailer and all's well that ends well.
I'm not arguing over an opinion, I'm arguing over inaccurate facts. Do I really need to list them?
What are those legitimate questions if I may ask?
I'm not speaking ill behind his back. I'm being critical with what he wrote. Beside, I gave my reasons why I did report the article here. The question is not if I believe in Shenmue III. It's not a matter of faith, again, it's a matter of building an opinion based on objective facts, not out of frustration.
There is a comment section below the article. It's not like this guy pretended not to be open to discussion, so it sounded a bit impolite to my ears and not very constructive.
I'm the one who sounds impolite and not very constructive?
They began to focus less on game development, and more on trinkets that the development team received in the mail. Seemingly arbitrary stretch goals, such as “improved battle system” and support for multiple languages, were set. Why should a goal of $3 million need to be met in order for another language to be supported? This seemed strange to me.
An update was posted by Ys Net on December 14, 2014. In the post, it is stated that R&D was on course, and that the team was beginning to focus on production. The game was announced one and a half years prior to this date, and was scheduled for release in a year. Yet, it still hadn’t even entered the production phase.
Words couldn’t express my disappointment. What, exactly, was Ys Net doing during the past 18 months with the $6,333,295 that they solicited from 69,320 gamers? Something didn’t seem right to me. To be truthful, it seemed downright fishy.
Several adjectives could be used to describe how Ys Net has handled Shenmue 3. Deceitful, disorganized, underhanded, and dishonest would be a few.
Whatever the case, Ys Net owes it to all backers to explain what is going on. At this rate, Shenmue 3 may eventually see the light of day on the PlayStation 5 in 2021, if it releases at all.
The author has every right to ignore how a game is being developed and how long the pre-production process can be but this ignorance doesn't give him the right to throw accusations based on assumptions. This is what I call being impolite and not very constructive.
