Random Shenmue III Thoughts

[SMDzero]

Maybe Lan Di and Ryo can have a sword fight sequence, and during one particularly fierce exchange (perhaps a QTE to allow for cinematic awesomeness,) Ryo manages to get BEHIND him, and slices at his head. Lan Di has the speed and wherewithal to duck, but the hair restraint gets nicked, and after he rolls away to create distance, his hair is now loose and billowing.

After one more blade lock, both men's swords break, and thus the proper hand to hand segment of their battle commences. > : )

What if Ryo's sword cuts Lan Di's ponytail clean off?

Then, in retaliation, Lan Di cuts off Ryo's belt causing his jeans to pool around his ankles like an ocean of shame.

[Spaghetti]

It more or less says that the Kickstarter reached 7 millions dollars and 70k digital copies preordered, but the numbers are now declining because of the lack of updates (implying that people are cancelling the preorders) and are down to 6.3m dollars and 69k preorders.

Yes, nonsense, it seems the guy just wanted to quickly write something, it's written too stupidly to shit on Shenmue on purpose.

But the guy missed the fact the Slacker Backer page said March 2016? Never change, games journalism. At least it was only some blogger without much of a following.

Still, maybe someone who speaks Italian could correct their mistake?

[John Doom]

I can help, I'm Italian. You guys only need to tell me (in English) what should I write them and if I should leave them a comment or write an email (just not with facebook, since I don't have an account ).

[Let's Get Sweaty]

Thanks John.

Just let them know that the information they're quoting in the article is almost a year old, as indicated by the date showing on the page when they viewed it. This was a result of a temporary mistake on the website that has now been amended, and the correct, up-to-date information is now being displayed. Backers have NOT been cancelling their preorders, and, given the date shown on the information the article is quoting, there was never any justifiable reason to suggest that they had been.

Will you be okay explaining all of that?

[ShenGCH]

Maybe Lan Di and Ryo can have a sword fight sequence, and during one particularly fierce exchange (perhaps a QTE to allow for cinematic awesomeness,) Ryo manages to get BEHIND him, and slices at his head. Lan Di has the speed and wherewithal to duck, but the hair restraint gets nicked, and after he rolls away to create distance, his hair is now loose and billowing.

After one more blade lock, both men's swords break, and thus the proper hand to hand segment of their battle commences. > : )

What if Ryo's sword cuts Lan Di's ponytail clean off?

Then, in retaliation, Lan Di cuts off Ryo's belt causing his jeans to pool around his ankles like an ocean of shame.

*Ryo slices off Lan Di's ponytail*
*Lan Di picks up his decapitated luscious lock, looks at it, then gives Ryo a cold stare*
Lan Di: "Am gawna beat ya like mah daddy used teh!"
*Lan Di proceeds to whip the shit out of Ryo with his new weapon*

[Kiske]

I can help, I'm Italian. You guys only need to tell me (in English) what should I write them and if I should leave them a comment or write an email (just not with facebook, since I don't have an account ).

Nelle mie braccia amico

(I'm writing to them right now. But two unhappy gamers are better than one )

[Kiske]

A few calls to change the article certainly have more weight than one. They may only be a small games blog, but accountability is important.

[John Doom]

Thanks John.

Just let them know that the information they're quoting in the article is almost a year old, as indicated by the date showing on the page when they viewed it. This was a result of a temporary mistake on the website that has now been amended, and the correct, up-to-date information is now being displayed. Backers have NOT been cancelling their preorders, and, given the date shown on the information the article is quoting, there was never any justifiable reason to suggest that they had been.

Will you be okay explaining all of that?

No problem

I can help, I'm Italian. You guys only need to tell me (in English) what should I write them and if I should leave them a comment or write an email (just not with facebook, since I don't have an account ).

Nelle mie braccia amico

(I'm writing to them right now. But two unhappy gamers are better than one )

Meglio ancora!

[KidMarine]

Tell him to go screw.

[Kiske]

I wrote a comment on their article page.

It still needs to be approved before publication...

I'm confident! *BA DUM TSSS*

[Kiske]

Same here, it needs to be approved (actually, yours has just been approved )

My comment:

Ho notato che c'è un errore nel vostro articolo: i dati che avete citato risalgono a quasi un anno fa, come specificato nella data mostrata sulla pagina da cui le avete tratte. Si è trattato solo di un errore temporaneo del sito ufficiale (che ora hanno già corretto con i nuovi dati aggiornati), quindi NON c'è ragione di credere che i sostenitori stiano cancellando le loro prenotazioni
Chiedo cortesemente, perciò, che correggiate il contenuto dell'articolo.
Grazie per il tempo dedicatomi e vi auguro buon lavoro per il vostro blog

EDIT: ok, it has just been approved

[Shenhua-Nani?]

It more or less says that the Kickstarter reached 7 millions dollars and 70k digital copies preordered, but the numbers are now declining because of the lack of updates (implying that people are cancelling the preorders) and are down to 6.3m dollars and 69k preorders.

Yes, nonsense, it seems the guy just wanted to quickly write something, it's written too stupidly to shit on Shenmue on purpose.

But the guy missed the fact the Slacker Backer page said March 2016? Never change, games journalism. At least it was only some blogger without much of a following.

Still, maybe someone who speaks Italian could correct their mistake?

Im italian aswell but imo it's useless to reply to that article.

First, it's a very obscure website nobody cares about, and second the guy wrote so many stupid things. The KS never reached 7m$ , and those arent really preorder, nor they are all digital. Like i said, it's just a random "article" written by a random guy, not worth wasting time on it imo.

[John Doom]

The blogger answered us (I'll translate):

Hi guys, thanks for your informations.
I'll gladly update the article based on your feedbacks.
So the data on the Kickstarter page are not up-to-date anymore and only those on shenmue.link are correct?

[Let's Get Sweaty]

The data on the Kickstarter page refers only to the Kickstarter campaign, which ended in July 2015. Current data, incorporating both the Kickstarter and Slacker Backer campaigns, is at shenmue.link/order, which has been amended following a recent error that caused data from March 2016 to be displayed for a short while.

[John Doom]

The data on the Kickstarter page refers only to the Kickstarter campaign, which ended in July 2015. Current data, incorporating both the Kickstarter and Slacker Backer campaigns, is at shenmue.link/order, which has been amended following a recent error that caused data from March 2016 to be displayed for a short while.

Should I reply him this?