https://youtu.be/GwphQVMDJvY?t=14m30s
For those who don't know, "Awesome Japan" are the company in charge of the Shenmue kickstarter.
Their staff : https://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.awesome-japan.com%2Fabout%2F&edit-text=
Some statistics :
- Awesome Japan has "helped" 13 kickstarters prior to this (in a span of 11 months), only 7 were successful
- Only 1 videogame kickstarter ,Soul Knights (ex Nippon Ichi staff), barely met the goal of $60k with only 246 backers
- only 1550 backers and $170k for all their campaigns combined so far
- they had no native english speaker before this kickstarter apparently. All of their previous campaigns had significant spelling and translation mistakes
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=170024411&postcount=800
http://www.gamerevolution.com/features/shenmue-3-kickstarter-confuses-customers-angers-idiots--best-video-game-podcast-ep-5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZm-HzCVzL4