Ys Net has issued an official statement about Shenmue 3’s platform availability. According to the team, all backers will receive free Steam keys once the game becomes available on Valve’s digital platform.
“In response to backers who have requested Steam keys for their rewards, we discussed offering the keys on the day of release. However, coordination with the sales policies of the involved companies was untenable, and as a result we are not able to make a day one distribution option for Steam keys available.
That we are not able to offer Steam keys for Kickstarter rewards at the time of the game’s release is a great disappointed and inconvenience for those backers who were expecting to receive them. We deeply apologize for the unrest caused by the announcement.”
What this ultimately means is that backers will receive their free Steam keys one year after the game’s release on the Epic Games Store. However, backers will also receive an Epic Games Store key when the game comes out on November 19th.
Ys Net has also confirmed that the PC physical copies will contain a key for the Epic Games Store and the Epic Games Store launcher, and not the actual game data.
Last but not least, Ys Net, Deep Silver and Epic Games announced that refund requests will be honored, and that details concerning the refund request process will be announced in a following update.
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BIGGER YOKE, ISSA YOKE THAN CB2069!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
Sice school is over we have kids like you all over this site
Honestly, shuddup reject, you’re dead wrong .
Wow
I changed my backer copy from PC to PS4, f*ck Epic store!
You shouldn’t have backed any.
No backers, no Shenmue 3.
Who cares, besides are you happy you backed something you can’t play where you initially wanted, because devs were greedy f**kers?
But if it hasn’t even come out how do you know?!? Honestly many japanese games are little optimized on PC and you don’t even see the difference compared to console version.
just refund it and play it for free if you are interested in this trash game. they don’t deserve any money..
I’m angry but Shenmue is a huge cult! Exactly as Dark Souls.
F U
LOL
Go to hell
ROFL
Codex, do your work
A good lesson for Yu Suzuki…don’t ever try to do partnership with Dip Shi#ver in the future…
thanks to tim sweeney.. all hail tim!
“We deeply apologize”
So sincere! Such BS.
Pirating Shenmue III for sure now.
Childish behavior.
Shut it, Tim!
Shillish behavior.
“However, coordination with the sales policies of the involved companies was untenable …”
Go on. Say the name. It’s already out in the open now.
Well at least refunds are being honored now. Still, this should have never become an EPIC exclusive in the first place. You had Sony money, you had investors money, you had Deep Silver money and you had backers money.
This is fair move, they get two keys for the price of one and refund possibility.
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A fair move would be respecting consumers and the gaming community, not making bs exclusivity deals and change their ways when sh*t backlashes
Fair? Steam, GoG, Ubisoft, Uplay, Bethesda, Origin and other store users suddenly have to wait for a whole year for a number of games thanks to Epic’s exclusivity. Steam and its users are specifically singled out by Epic for this whole mess even though other stores are conveniently left out for doing the same thing.
Hopefully Deep Silver will utilize latest version of Denuvo anti-tamper tech to protect this game.
Shut it, Kim!
Sooner or later, the pirates will manage to crack games even with the latest Denuvo version. It’s not like it didn’t happen before… Ahem, AC Origins, the game that everyone thought that cannot be cracked.
No worries, ill provide frustrated backers’s legit accounts of the game worldwide for free 🙂 Backlashes need to be done so devs can learn. F* their sales in order for them to learn the hard way. I gave them an option to choose to give people what they backed the game for! If we aint getting steam keys on release, then its attack time. F* scammers, f* epic and f* tim trashney
So basically you get two copies of the game, one on EGS and one on Steam.
And, you can decide to ask for a refund, reasonable development IMO.
As much as I am a Shenmue fan this is complete BS
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Deep Silver doesn’t get a single cent from me anymore. They don’t care about consumers at all.