I pledged $300, if I have any extra to add to that total before July 17th, I will.

Just a note that i removed my previous pledge and currently havent made a pledge yet. I am going to wait until the end of the Kickstarter to see what tiers are final, and what opportunities are available, I am hoping there are extra dinner slots for the 10,000 tier made available.

Yu Suzuki just dropped this bombshell:

http://i.imgur.com/Zgf3BSh.png

So unless you guys want to play Shenmue 3-lite, then we gotta push this to $10 Million, in anyway we can. So I thought we could take advantage of the social media to help with that.

#10MillionToShenmue3

In this hashtag, we will focus on the following:

- Explain that Yu Suzuki needs at least $10M from Kickstarter funding to make Shenmue 3 the proper Open World experience we all knew and loved.

- Clear the misunderstanding that Sony is footing the bill for the project, more information here .

- Overall promote the Shenmue series so that it might catch the interest of non-fans.


What say you? Am I going to find some energy here? or just cynicism? If this hashtags catches on, I'll create graphics like Avatars and sigs to help promote it.

#10MillionToShenmue3

http://i.imgur.com/Uc2fJTu.png
http://i.imgur.com/XM4orE7.png
http://i.imgur.com/FM9zdNy.png

If we put together these three hashtags on twitter over the next few days, I think it will be really effective:

#saveshenmue #10MillionToShenmue3 and #30onthe3rd

In your tweets try to succinctly explain what 30 on the 3rd will do.

Ie: "If everyone who has donated added $30 on July 3rd, we'd add over a million to #Shenmue3's #kickstarter. #10MillionToShenmue3 #30onthe3rd" that's under 140 characters, so go ahead and use that if you need to. I dropped #saveshenmue, but you could easily swap that with #10milliontoshenmue3.

$29 more than people crying about physical copies for the PS4.

New $30 on the 3rd banners by Ricardo Valverde.

i wonder if the guys at AJ realize that they are managing the fate of a 50+ million dollar franchise with this KS campaign !? shenmue is the long lost holy grail of the gaming industry, not some cute little indie game.. its surreal and disturbing to see how unprofessionally they are handling this. its almost like there is a conspiracy at work to sabotage the project. the twitch Q&A (which wasnt a Q&A at all, there was no interaction with the viewers) was TWILIGHT ZONE material.

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/shenmue_3
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/shenmue
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/shenmue_ii

So GOG it's pretty much the second PC gaming store, and a big hub for pc gamers.

It's DRM free, and usually offers some cool digital goodies.

To be honest it's my prefered platform for PC games, and voting there can get some newcomers to the franchise, specially for pc gamers that don't even know the franchise (that also like old games, that was GOG's target).