Though the majority of decided voters were in favor of opening up the rewards to the post-campaign contributors, and post-Kickstarter PayPal backers were originally promised the same digital and physical rewards, Ys Net has opted to revoke the rewards for PayPal contributors. (26.53%, 4,009 votes) “No, Kickstarter Exclusive Rewards are for Kickstarter only.”.
(30.90%, 4,670 votes) “ Yes, please make the Kickstarter Exclusive Rewards available on PayPal.”. Should Kickstarter Exclusive Rewards be made available on the PayPal page? The proposed question and results are as follows: From the 69,320 Kickstarter “backers”, only 15,111 individuals participated in Ys Net’s poll. Ys Net held a Kickstarter-exclusive poll during the final week of December, with the purpose of deciding whether or not post-campaign contributors should receive the same tier rewards. Even though these participants would not technically be part of the Kickstarter campaign, PayPal contributors would still receive rewards based on their contribution tier. While fans have much to rejoice about, the crowdfunding campaign was constantly under fire due to the secretive nature of outside funding and misleading data: As it was not previously stated within the Kickstarter, it was revealed that Sony would also help fund the game, but only if fans showed interest through contributing to the campaign in the closing days of the Kickstarter, Director/Producer Yu Suzuki also claimed that the proposed funding goal would not be sufficient enough to create their fully-realized vision of Shenmue III.Īt the close of the campaign, Shenmue III developer Ys Net announced that fans would still have the option of contributing via PayPal as a “slacker backer”. Not only did Shenmue fans successfully fund the third installment, but the Shenmue III Kickstarter campaign became the highest-funded Kickstarter campaign for any gaming-related project. However, Shenmue III would only happen if fans were willing to contribute to a Kickstarter campaign to aide in funding the development of the title. 
To the surprise of many, Shenmue returned after a nearly 15 year absence with a teaser trailer for the third installment, shown during Sony’s 2015 E3 conference. In a bizarre twist of fate, the developers of Shenmue III have decided to revoke select crowdfunding rewards for the “slacker backer” PayPal contributors.
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