Hello, i'm a long time lurker, first time posting.
First of all I would like to say, because of my financial situation, right now I can't donate to the kickstarter . maybe, if the paypal becomes na option, down the line I can help as many of you did.
Now to the point: I´ve notice in the budget chart that about 70% of the Money all raised goes to the Shenmue 3 development, and 30% goes to the kickstarter fees (about 10%) and rewards (about 20%).That means that if we raised all the 11milion dollars Yu asks for "only" about 7700000 would go for the development while 3300000 would go for the others expenses.
what i'm trying to say is, if not for the expenses, we already had more than half of the Money that yu really needs to deliver the full-on shenmue experience that him and we would like to have.
That said there's not much We can do about the kickstarter fees but perhaps if all those who donate could spare some of the rewards more Money would go to achieve some of the stretch goals. I'm not saying that those who donated to have the replica jacket or donated to have diner with Yu to decline those rewards but maybe they could spare the Money reward making easier to achieve the stretch goals.
I know that might sound selfish of me to ask to refuse some of the rewards, but all I´m trying to do is finding options to get more Money for the development and have a better shenmue experience since I can´t contribute any other way.
I apolagize if somehow I wasn´t clear enough or made any grammatical error