I know im late, but the final game didnt include seven out of the first (and thus most important) seven fucking kickstarter’s stretch goals, subs and cinema shorts excluded. No explanation given.
I would say that beyond running away with the money and not releasing the game, thats about as big of a shitshow as you can get from a kickstarter.
Or am i the only Shenmue fan that remembers the first things they promised were rapport system, skill tree system and baisha village as the main story place?
The rapport system is implemented, but not as big as it was supposed to be. The Skill tree has been remplaced by Skill book system. Baisha wasn't supposed to be THE main story, but a place among the story and sadly hasn't been implemented. And that's the only point they didn't implement at all. The other two, even though somewhat below what we were expecting, they were there.
It's worth noting that it is the case in most (if not all) crowdfunded game. A game often has to change plans, cut its content, change its direction during development. Most of the time, we don't know about it, because we aren't told what is being developed, since generally they announce games once they are at and advanced stage of development and the final direction has been taken. Crowdfunded game, obviously, you follow the developement from its (almost) beginning until the end. So you can see almost in-real time the change in direction. And that's the case for the vast majority of crowdfunded games.
But in the meantime they also implemented stuffs that were higher tier goals that they did implement, even though the goal wasn't reached, up to tier 10,5 millions.
These things aren't new to Kickstarter/Crowdfunding. They happen pretty often. That's part of crowdfunding too. When you accept to crowdfund a game, you take a risk that the game isn't going to be good, that it's gonna change direction at some point and not deliver the wanted product... Sometimes, I feel like people critisize Shenmue 3's Kickstarter very harshly, when in reality it's the whole Crowdfunding system that they are criticizing.
Shenmue 3 Kickstarter is an example of shitty communication, apart from that, the rest is pretty normal for a Crowdfunded game, and they got shat on for it too harshly IMO.
Also, side note, your message feels pretty passive-aggressive. Maybe it's the language barrier that makes me feel that or maybe you really are, but please, it would be great if you would remain respectful.
