LucBu wrote:Riku Rose wrote:I think Awesome Japan actually hurt the campaign. Things mentioned above like the Sony funding should have been put to bed within hours and not weeks. It felt like no preparation had gone into making the campaign at all past writing up the Kickstarter page and interviewing 5 people. I honestly think you could have just put up a page with a title just saying Shenmue III and got the same amount of money.
In regards to that misinformation thing, I think Sony have more to answer for there. Cedric Biscay himself said (I'll try and find the place/link tomorrow - think it was Twitter?) that he was irritated at Sony's statement. Sony obviously wanted the good PR without any of the risk: They knew it would be considered a low move.
I partially agree Sony certainly added to the confusion. However a well managed campaign would have ensured communication was co-ordinated and they should have immediately released a statement and get the direct word out. However as we've seen throughout the campaign they were slow, their message was unclear and the fans were fighting to set the record straight.
Mystere wrote:Thief wrote: Seem like a bunch of nice people with good intentions who were just in way over their head. No hard feelings -- time to move on I think.
And let's not forget Awesome Japan were hired by Suzuki / YsNet so a judgement really has to lie there. If you buy a Casio, do you expect a Rolex?
Well I did say part of the blame absolutely falls on Suzuki and co for hiring these people in the first place. Even after multiple errors, it seemed only Cedric begun to appreciate the scope of the mistakes made and how it was adversely affecting the campaign and ultimate money raised.