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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Feb 22, 2012 14:46:13 GMT
wow, fun little hive buzzing in here eh? whats the haphaps? to lazy to read it all Team Yu is a campaign urging Sega to give the Shenmue license to Yu Suzuki, so that he can explore other funding options for Shenmue III. Whether that's knocking on the doors of other publishers, crowd sourcing donations through Kickstarter, negotiating an exclusivity deal with one of the console manufacturers, or a combination of these. He's passionate about making this sequel and concluding his story, but Sega seem disinterested and even resentful towards the franchise. That's their right, but we believe it's unfair of them to hold onto the license if they don't intend to produce the game that fans have been waiting over a decade to play. We're trying to gather support on Twitter and Facebook (and beyond), encouraging fans to back Yu Suzuki and pressure Sega into doing the right thing. Team Yu focuses on this very specific goal of liberating the Shenmue license, rather than continuing the vague pleas for Shenmue III that have been ignored for the past ten years. Appealing to Sega to make the game themselves simply isn't working, and we believe this is the key issue that needs to be resolved before any real progress can be made. www.facebook.com/TeamYuwww.twitter.com/TeamYu#GiveYuTheShenmueLicense
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Post by johnnybravoboy on Feb 22, 2012 15:13:39 GMT
^ Core! What a beauty!
A bit off topic but today after much back and forth emails my place at Manchester uni has been accepted and now just waiting to pass my course, which was stressful for me as they mistook my application for someone else. >:-|
More tweeting now? I think sooooo....
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Post by johnnybravoboy on Feb 22, 2012 15:36:34 GMT
I'm wondering whether assaulting Twitter over and over - which I have no problem with still doing - is going to be effective any longer...I feel its like a dead end, Sega just switches Twitter on, looks for the tweets it wants to see, ignores us, logs out and repeats the next day. Although the assault is good and should be kept up because its now restricting them slightly from pleasurable twitter use, I wonder if we should now home in on another aspect of the company. Any suggestions? Cos im out!!
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Feb 22, 2012 16:02:48 GMT
I don't think it's worth any of us bombarding their Twitter, as it's too easy to dismiss a handful of eccentrics. We need to be encouraging action from others - a hundred people sending a couple of tweets each is far more impressive than a couple of people sending a hundred tweets each.
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Feb 22, 2012 17:59:36 GMT
Congrats on your application being accepted by the way - good luck with the final hurdle!
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Post by johnnybravoboy on Feb 22, 2012 19:07:16 GMT
Thanks mate. And arggh it's hard not to go a bit nuts on twitter, especially when such a simple action from them could possibly mean a Shenmue 3 confirmation tomorrow. :s arggh frustrating lol. But they obtain their fan requests via twitter and forums as said by the representative. Maybe we should build a team of supporters, make a web page/facebook group/thread for the group and then coordinate twittering/forum posting so it ain't left to u me and mue26 solely. Team Yu needs to expand and not with silent participants, if we want a group voice that looks more credible than a group of 3 die hard fans tweeting to a large company. We need like...like...like an army! lol
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Post by johnnybravoboy on Feb 22, 2012 19:08:44 GMT
Thanks for best wishes regarding my uni. "Exalted." your karma is now 3...whatever the he'll that means :b
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Post by johnnybravoboy on Feb 22, 2012 19:25:35 GMT
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Post by mue26 on Feb 22, 2012 19:32:07 GMT
@gin If you haven't already seen it, Johnny's campaign video is absolutely essential viewing, and even includes the legendary words "and we're your pals, bredren". Seriously though, it is pretty good now that it's been cleaned up.
This. I have sent a few tweets to Sega, but where the real pot of gold is, is in getting retweets and amassing an awareness and momentum for the campaign. It's like Sweaty said, it's not hard to either ignore or block tweets from the three of us, no matter now many we send, but if you've 100 people tweeting them every day, it's a lot harder. There are a lot of Shenmue fans out there, we just have to get them using their voice again.
The three of us desperately attempting to appeal to Sega will obviously get us nowhere fast.
Congrats by the way, man. what are studying?
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Post by johnnybravoboy on Feb 22, 2012 19:48:01 GMT
Thanks mue26 (do u have like a nickname, I feel like C3P0 calling you a codename lol), I shall be studying Biomedical Sciences. Very interesting subject. I have posted onto the Shenmue500k facebook page proposing a partnership: "Jonathan Esteeves Neasham Would you guys be interested in forging a partnership with Team Yu, we are doing pretty much the same campaign just on different sites. From discussions on our Shenmue UK webiste we need more members and well, we could help up your membership stats too. If we forge a partnership then we could instantaneously share member figures, upping yours and upping ours and having two communities of pioneering campaignors who have strong characters in both communities to acheive a persuasion from SEGA, rather than divided campaigns, if we made an agreement/partnership we would all benefit. I have already included you guys in my protest video alongside Team Yu. Let me know and i will pass on the information to fellow administrators of the Shenmue Team Yu project. Much Thanks!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVHKzXQgA....QKXI3BiOByYWMwq" The administrator of Shenmue500k was tickle pink I included his campaign in my promotional video for Team Yu and added all my videos to his playlist for promotion of Team Yu. This might just be the first few steps I was talking about mue26, if we can get a large amount of dedicated supporters rather than us three and set up a private group for the dedicated members and encourage more friends to enter, we can coordinate weekly project tasks and daily tweeting times/forum writing times etc etc, just to make what your saying of a large amount of supporters a reality. I dont think it would be hard for the administrator Ryo Hazuki to take up the offer seeing he loved me including him with Team Yu twittering, retwittering Shenmue500k tweets and promoting their campaign in my Team Yu video.
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Post by johnnybravoboy on Feb 22, 2012 19:54:20 GMT
OK I HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS FOR SWEATY!!! Sweaty sweaty sweaty where are you? ? The administrator immediately responded YES, he wants to forge a partnership with the Team Yu campaign and for us to support each other for us to give more resounding voices. I hope your happy. I just upped your campaign in popularity and figures. Let me know if you want to deal with the technical bits I think you should. It is the Shenmue 500k facebook page. You will see my post, its a long one and Ryo saying YES. We should set up a communication medium between both campaigns now, or maybe make one complete site/facebook page/thread for us all to coordinate protest and campaigns together. Please let me know soon, I dont want to leave him on the fence too long.
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Feb 22, 2012 20:12:02 GMT
Have you got a link?
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Post by johnnybravoboy on Feb 22, 2012 20:18:19 GMT
Get to it buddy. Yours for the taking! If it doesnt work you have to LIKE them first www.facebook.com/#!/groups/Shenmue500K/262218727187172/?notif_t=group_activity
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Post by ShenmueAddict on Feb 22, 2012 20:25:44 GMT
Thats excellent news Jon, a partnership between campaigns will help tremendously
To be honest i cant see the Shenmue 500K campaign going anywhere fast, i mean how longs it been running? and it only has 11,500 members, maybe it it had 100,000 there would be hope but i think getting 500K is a lost cause, for example the famous Shenmue III Petition has taken about 10 years to get 65,000 sigs!, not that i dont commend them for trying something bold! However...
Sweatys Team Yu campaign on the otherhand is a much more realistic and feasible task, with no specific target in regards membership total but an overall goal of persuading Sega to just give up the franchise which they obviously do not care much for and hand it over to the master himself since its his baby afterall!!
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Feb 22, 2012 20:28:29 GMT
Thanks John. Slightly annoying that Facebook won't let me join the group "as" the Team Yu page, I have to use my personal profile. Oh well, Sweaty is unmasked in all his bearded glory.
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Post by ShenmueAddict on Feb 22, 2012 20:31:13 GMT
Thanks John. Slightly annoying that Facebook won't let me join the group "as" the Team Yu page, I have to use my personal profile. Oh well, Sweaty is unmasked in all his bearded glory. Indeed, i added you dude Now your identity is revealed Sega are going to hunt you down!
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Post by johnnybravoboy on Feb 22, 2012 20:34:15 GMT
@patrick Shenmue 500k may have been less practical than Team Yu, but we dont have to conform to their standards. If we work together, they could adopt the whole GiveYuTheShenmueLicense idea and we could get more potential members as Team Yu members are less than 500k. So it goes both ways buddy. @sweaty, ahh sooo thats what you look like. No probs mate, hope that made u happy u got more potential members now. And dont forget the Team Yu aim, we promote it to 500k and 500k adopt the #GiveYuTheShenmueLicense idea/drive.
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Post by ShenmueAddict on Feb 22, 2012 20:38:00 GMT
@patrick Shenmue 500k may have been less practical than Team Yu, but we dont have to conform to their standards. If we work together, they could adopt the whole GiveYuTheShenmueLicense idea and we could get more potential members as Team Yu members are less than 500k. So it goes both ways buddy. @sweaty, ahh sooo thats what you look like. No probs mate, hope that made u happy u got more potential members now. And dont forget the Team Yu aim, we promote it to 500k and 500k adopt the #GiveYuTheShenmueLicense idea/drive. Yep its a good thing for sure i agree, double the efforts will hopefully equal double the rewards!!!
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Feb 22, 2012 20:39:50 GMT
@patrick Shenmue 500k may have been less practical than Team Yu, but we dont have to conform to their standards. If we work together, they could adopt the whole GiveYuTheShenmueLicense idea and we could get more potential members as Team Yu members are less than 500k. So it goes both ways buddy. @sweaty, ahh sooo thats what you look like. No probs mate, hope that made u happy u got more potential members now. And dont forget the Team Yu aim, we promote it to 500k and 500k adopt the #GiveYuTheShenmueLicense idea/drive. #GiveYuTheShenmueLicense was actually their hashtag first, it's Team Yu that adopted it as soon as I saw them use it the first time! Seemed more self explanatory than the old #TeamYu tag. And yes, well done for reaching out to them on Facebook. Turns out the reason they didn't reply to my DM on Twitter is because they don't even read their DMs. Oh, to be so popular...
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Post by johnnybravoboy on Feb 22, 2012 20:44:32 GMT
great guys. thats good news. we bagged ourselves a larger campaign group now. I feel proud. *Pats himself on back* I isss the prophesied one, that will emerge shenmue 3 from the womb of Yu Suzuki. ...well, not literally but hey
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