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Hello,
I wanted to discuss something which has been bothering me since I saw it in the news today and that is regarding the Wonderful 101 Remaster being crowd funded on KickStarter.
Now many of us put our money and hopes into reviving Shenmue III via the KickStarter (Or so I hope!) & I feel that was genuinely the only way we ever to would ever get a chance for the story to go on. I'm proud to be a part of that and the contribution I made.
Yet today, I see Platinum Games - A company which can comfortably say is within the higher range of AA game developers, pushing for a crowd funding of their port for Wonderful 101. I can't see anyway this is justified. Platinum games have had mostly positive success within the last 10 years in the industry ( A few duds like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game sure), but mostly pretty successful. They have very well established bonds with other companies in the past from Konami, Square-Enix, SEGA & Nintendo. What is worse is that Platinum Game have already had one of their games ported to the Switch! With Bayonetta 1 & 2! I simply don't see how a game like this needs the support of fans to push it in existence.
On top of that, you then have this month, SEGA's produced double pack of Vanquish & Bayonnetta for PS4 & Xbox One didn't go through this process. And don't get me wrong, I love Remasters - Utterly stocked for the Yakuza 3-5 Collection this month. But I can get over the ethics of this situation - Two large companies abusing this crowd funding process which is built to support projects from the ground up. I hope to god this doesn't become an Industry standard going forward.
I'd totally understand if this way Platinum Games not getting the support for a sequel and having to prove that the audience is there, but for a HD port this process seems way over the top - like I said before with Bayonnetta being ported to Switch already.
EDIT: I also just read that the game is set to release in April... so is the work already done?
So that's my take on the matter, but I'm curious to see how other Shenmue III backers feel on the matter.
I wanted to discuss something which has been bothering me since I saw it in the news today and that is regarding the Wonderful 101 Remaster being crowd funded on KickStarter.
Now many of us put our money and hopes into reviving Shenmue III via the KickStarter (Or so I hope!) & I feel that was genuinely the only way we ever to would ever get a chance for the story to go on. I'm proud to be a part of that and the contribution I made.
Yet today, I see Platinum Games - A company which can comfortably say is within the higher range of AA game developers, pushing for a crowd funding of their port for Wonderful 101. I can't see anyway this is justified. Platinum games have had mostly positive success within the last 10 years in the industry ( A few duds like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game sure), but mostly pretty successful. They have very well established bonds with other companies in the past from Konami, Square-Enix, SEGA & Nintendo. What is worse is that Platinum Game have already had one of their games ported to the Switch! With Bayonetta 1 & 2! I simply don't see how a game like this needs the support of fans to push it in existence.
On top of that, you then have this month, SEGA's produced double pack of Vanquish & Bayonnetta for PS4 & Xbox One didn't go through this process. And don't get me wrong, I love Remasters - Utterly stocked for the Yakuza 3-5 Collection this month. But I can get over the ethics of this situation - Two large companies abusing this crowd funding process which is built to support projects from the ground up. I hope to god this doesn't become an Industry standard going forward.
I'd totally understand if this way Platinum Games not getting the support for a sequel and having to prove that the audience is there, but for a HD port this process seems way over the top - like I said before with Bayonnetta being ported to Switch already.
EDIT: I also just read that the game is set to release in April... so is the work already done?
So that's my take on the matter, but I'm curious to see how other Shenmue III backers feel on the matter.
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