Sergeynest
Keep your Mind as clear as a Polished Mirror.
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2019
- Location
- Portugal , Sines
- Favourite title
- Shenmue II
- Currently playing
- Plague of Tale Requiem
This idea recently came into my mind; what if Shenmue fans privately decided to fund the development of Shenmue IV & V for the conclusion of the series !?
I know it would be hard and for most of us in our minds to believe and would probably be impossible to achieve; but would it be really that hard if we could make this happen in a transparent and trust worthy way !?
In my opinion I would gladly contribute for its development by becoming a patron by giving a fixed value of about 30 dollars or euros every month instead of buying a game or something else that would not give me the same pleasure this series as given me for more than 20 years.
But how many die hard fans would be willing to accept this compromise for lets say for at least a period of about at least 12 months straigth !?
Shenmue 3 was funded by 69,320 backers on kickstarter and reached a total of 81,087 backers with the slacker backer campaign.
Let's say that we could make a successful campaign by promoting this idea with a really well made trailer and by promoting it on social media like facebook, twitter, instagram, etc... and we could reach to about 50 000 Patrons in total worldwide that would provide 30 dollars/euros for 12 months straight by keeping their compromise without faulting a single month.
That would end up giving us about 18 000 000 wich in my opinion would be more than enough to create Shenmue 4 by reusing all that had already been done in the development of Shenmue 3.
I believe that if this dream became a reality Yu Suzuky and his team could give us a Shenmue 4 with the same scope and quality of Shenmue 2.
Patrons would be given monthly updates on the development of the game without spoilers and could be allowed to give feedback on its development but without interfering on the original vision of its creator.
For me the only big question is how could we make this happen in the most transparent and trustworthy way that would give confidence for such a large number of fans to contribute to this cause !?
Let me know your opinions on how we could make this a reality and not just another dream.
I know it would be hard and for most of us in our minds to believe and would probably be impossible to achieve; but would it be really that hard if we could make this happen in a transparent and trust worthy way !?
In my opinion I would gladly contribute for its development by becoming a patron by giving a fixed value of about 30 dollars or euros every month instead of buying a game or something else that would not give me the same pleasure this series as given me for more than 20 years.
But how many die hard fans would be willing to accept this compromise for lets say for at least a period of about at least 12 months straigth !?
Shenmue 3 was funded by 69,320 backers on kickstarter and reached a total of 81,087 backers with the slacker backer campaign.
Let's say that we could make a successful campaign by promoting this idea with a really well made trailer and by promoting it on social media like facebook, twitter, instagram, etc... and we could reach to about 50 000 Patrons in total worldwide that would provide 30 dollars/euros for 12 months straight by keeping their compromise without faulting a single month.
That would end up giving us about 18 000 000 wich in my opinion would be more than enough to create Shenmue 4 by reusing all that had already been done in the development of Shenmue 3.
I believe that if this dream became a reality Yu Suzuky and his team could give us a Shenmue 4 with the same scope and quality of Shenmue 2.
Patrons would be given monthly updates on the development of the game without spoilers and could be allowed to give feedback on its development but without interfering on the original vision of its creator.
For me the only big question is how could we make this happen in the most transparent and trustworthy way that would give confidence for such a large number of fans to contribute to this cause !?
Let me know your opinions on how we could make this a reality and not just another dream.