To my absolute disgust, I came across this..
This just came out only 5 days ago. Well after many sites started correcting themselves.
Start at exactly the 15:50 mark.
Disappointing right? We continue to have some major outlets like IGN make gaffs on the facts with information coming from lord knows who's anus..
So I decided to send IGN a feedback news correction email.
In it I wrote:
Axm to IGN wrote:Recently on Game Scoop episode 349, starting at 16:00
Mr. Justin Davis made some major errors in stating:
"It's obvious Sony is funding the game. We actually know that now. 95% of the funding is coming from Sony. Why are people still donating to the kickstarter?"
This is not only false but it is extremely damaging mis-information that Yu Suzuki has publicly corrected numerous times now and other gaming news organizations have already corrected themselves on aswell.
"funds are going strictly to Ys Net for development of Shenmue 3 — Sony and Shibuya Productions are not seeing a cent of your Kickstarter dollars."
http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/24/884210 ... -yu-suzuki
For more information on this, visit the official kickstarter page.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ys ... ts/1273833
Request: Please have it be known in a news article that the Shenmue 3 kickstarter is still very important and Sony is not funding "95%" of development costs. Sony are only funding through marketing and 3rd party support in the PS4 version.
"A majority of developement costs are coming from individual kickstarter backers." (Yu Suzuki, Famitsu Jun.17)
Thank you.
I suggest you all do the same as I did using this link.
http://www.ign.com/support/editorial?category=feedback
We need to not have a major gaming news source like IGN with millions of viewers continue to miss-inform the public.
If you know any other means of contacting them directly please do it as I will continue to try and get a response out of them on this. Collectively we have a better chance at trying to break through to them and having them run an actual article stating the facts.
Thank you.