According to our fellow fan David, the PayPal funding should start on 17th september!

http://www.gameblog.fr/blogs/atarashigame/p_115093_shenmue-iii-une-date-pour-le-systeme-paypal

Was there any explanation regarding the Kung-Fu Mastery goal? I can't believe that even now, we still don't know what were these goals we tried to reach!

Some of us were a bit puzzled by some of the Kickstarter rewards and i thought that we could make a few suggestions for the PayPal campaign. So, what kind of rewards would you like to see during this campaign? What may help you to open your wallet again? Here is my suggestion: posters of Shenmue cha...

An online Free Battle or kung-fu tournament would have been fun though!

Ps4, though i still need to buy it (which i didn't plan to do 1 month ago)!
"Maybe just one"!

Reprise wrote: Inevitable? This is Sega we're talking about....

Agreed.
But is Sega still Sega since Sammy bought the company?
I wonder what kind of budget are we talking about? I wish some journalist asked the guys from Spain who already did port old Sega games on HD how much it cost.

I think that there is no magic answer. If Shenmue III recoup the money invested for the game, there will be a 4th. If think that's the key: not losing money.
On the other hand, i'm sure that a 4th game would cost less money because they would have mastered the tools.

Sonoshee wrote: At the time of typing...

$6,044,085 funding

66,562 backers

3 hours left

Let's keeping it going, at this rate we can reach that $6.5 stretch goal.

If the 6.5 million goal seem within reach when the last hour begins (let's say 150 000$), there might be a final huge boost.

johnvivant wrote: dare we dream for rag doll?

We might be a couple of hours short to achieve this, but who knows?
With Europe going to bed now, the future of Shenmue mostly lies in asian and american hands now!

Today we may top the amount pledged during the first day of this campaign. That's very impressive!

Let's keep dreaming: since 6 million is almost a sure bet, i would say 6.5 million. Show us your Ragdoll Reaction!

We are now the 7th most funded project on Kickstarter! Veronica Mars is now behind us!
https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/most-funded

The next target is Neil Young's Pono, with 6 225 354 $. The good news is that we are trending toward this amount!

Yeah!!!!

The rythm right now is 1 million every minute and we are trending now toward 6.25 million. If we can keep the pace and increase it a little bit with a final crazy rush, we could even reach the 6.5 million stretch goal!

This is not a competition against Bloodstain but we need to beat this record in order to increase the level of private funding YS might still need after this Kickstarter campaign.

5.5 million reached. 50 000 to go for the record!

I'm sure that he has kept one set of these busts for himself or for his company.
And now he has more shelf space in his office for Shenmue IV and V busts!