elfshadowreaper wrote: Again, we need to think of new blood. This has to be our next campaign. The Shenmue fans have spoken and donated. Now we need to evangelize. How? No clue, but I'm thinking hard. It's going to have to be viral but I don't know what exactly. Right now all we have is the Kickstarter and we can't assume PayPal will be a reality. We have to focus on getting the word out to the gaming world especially the younger generation.
Whatever we think of we need to do it fast. It has to be easy to start up and easy to share. And we can't rely on the media. Its going to have to be socially shared.
I'm all for that too. This isn't mutually exclusive with other initiatives of course. But I feel we also need to be prepared for the unpleasant possibility that Shenmue only has niche appeal, and that it might really be entirely up to us. I'm willing to participate in a list of backers committed to donating every month over the next two years, and I think it could be a useful evangelizing tool in and of itself. "Check out (enter site url) to see the growing list of SaveShenmue soldiers! Want to help make history? Commit today!" or some such. Hell, we could even USE the 30onthe3rd website and just continue to make that our rallying cry. Whatever works.
We may be faced with the stark reality that if we don't reach 10 million, trying to get fellow existing backers to continue to donate may be the only way to get the game we want to see rather than something much smaller in scale (and thus potentially less likely to succeed financially and justify 4 and 5, which would be devastating now that we know the story doesn't end with 3.) I'm willing to make that commitment (informally, of course) and participate in such a thread.
Is anyone with me? If I went ahead and made such a thread when and if PayPal is revealed, who here would put their user names down? That's what I'm driving at. A pledge on a forum. A way to at least guestimate where we stand, and then try to grow from there.
I agree that more backers would be the better solution, but I think we're going to need to try both. Anyone with me? I'm trying to float the idea.