It further clarifies that the versions of the game being made available to Kickstarter backers and supporters of the follow-up “Slacker Backer” campaign have their own exclusive content that will not be available in the retail release.
The message claims that content from these versions, including the season pass, can be purchased by backers. They will also not receive a season pass for content added to the game down the line.
According to the message, Kickstarter backers will not receive any pre-order bonus content or retailer-exclusive content from either the standard or deluxe editions of the game. In a comment on one of Shenmue III‘s Kickstarter blog posts, backer Antonio Miranda shared an email he claims to have received from developer Ys Net regarding exclusive content from various versions of the game. Regardless of your opinion of Epic Games Store, it's clear that this situation is being handled with very little grace, and is likely hurting the goodwill that Shenmue 3 and Ys Net has cultivated over the years.Shenmue III Kickstarter backers will allegedly not be eligible to receive certain exclusive content. We thank you for your support and look forward to delivering the Shenmue experience fans everywhere have been waiting so long for.Īs you can imagine, the comment section - which is limited to only confirmed backers of Shenmue 3 - is irate, many of them instructing others to demand chargebacks from the respective credit card companies or report the Shenmue 3 team for false advertising. We apologize for the sudden change in platform, however, refunds will not be granted for this change. Shenmue III will be distributed through the Epic Games Store and will require the Epic Games Store Client to activate. The launch was previously planned for distribution on Steam, however it was decided together with Deep silver after much discussion that the Epic Games Store would be the best distribution platform option. While new unannounced games being revealed as Epic Games Store exclusives ruffle some feathers, there is definitely some grey areas for previously announced games that suddenly make an about-face - often including games that have been offering pre-orders via Steam previously. Coming in as a fierce competitor of Steam, it has earned the ire from many gamers due to exclusivity and timed-exclusivity deals negotiated (often through offering more competitive rates to developers and publishers).
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However, that decision came well before the era of Epic Games Store's disruption of the PC distribution market.
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With thousands of fans backing the game, backers were given two options to eventually receive the game: PS4 copy or Steam copy. Within hours the game had reached nearly $700,000, the project was funded (at the $2,000,000 target) within nine hours, and the Kickstarter closed at a record-breaking $6,333,296. For those of you out of the loop, Shenmue 3 had a fairly strange reveal - while the game was showcased at the PlayStation E3 2015 Press Conference, it was more a platform to announce a Kickstarter campaign.
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