I'm not..
Uncomfortable or not, you're were not pledging money to Sony.
- If you read the kickstarter page, it says right there that neither Sony and Shubuya Productions - a different named partner, a cgi film company, I think - will receive a single cent of your dollar of your Kickstarter pledge.
- It also said 2 million were not enough, but YS-Net had secured more funding and resources from other partners.
No.. Adam Boyes said on the E3 stage that this were the developer's project..
What Gio Corsi said, were that they were one of the partners helping out.
Lot's of publishers have been helping out or invested in various Kickstarter projects, since they began.
i.e. I pledged my support to Elite: Dangerous on kickstarter, since I really enjoyed Elite and the Elite: Frontier one and the buggy sequel back in the day, and now they've gone ahead and secured a timed console exclusive deal with Microsoft, their previous publisher, who didn't want to fund Elite.
So perhaps you'll meet a NPC-characther bearing my name, on Xbox One - that dosn't mean I gave my money to Microsoft. I gave it to Frontier Developements of course, to get the new one made.
I'm not annoyed by how you choose to spend your money.
I'm annoyed because when you go around saying that rich companies like Sony - is the ones asking for the pledges from people - you are actually hurting the chances, for the not so rich developers - YS-Net - who's the actual benefactor of these pledges to receive them.
If you get what I mean.
As for Bloodstaiend, they also informed on their kickstarter page that this were not going to be solely funded by Kickstarter.
Concidering that this is a kickstarter for Shenmue 3, doing Shenmue 1 and 2 with the money instead of the third game, would be a disaster..
However, the stretch-goal to make cinema shorts to explain the most important things wich happened in Shenmue 1 and 2, for eventual newcomers wich want to learn more about the universe, have been met tough.
I'm guessing it will be something similar as in the main menu in Yakuza 3, where you could select a 20+ minute recap video of the most important things wich happened in each of the earlier games, if you wanted to learn more about the backstory. But I'm also expecting the game will be perfectly fine on it's own.