| Are you kidding? Those free discs will read your hue, man! LOL |
bippo said: You can't consider this rip off if they got discs for free...They're selling the Box-sets of the show in ACE today. Basically what they're planning to do is 1 volume consisting of 4 episodes. 3 volumes in total plus an OVA. I'll assume the Box contains the three volumes plus some extras. People who got these two blurays got ripped off. Lantis...this company..wtf |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
| oh wow, so that makes me wonder how long we have to wait for episode 3? :( |
jmal said: TheIMF said: I don't want to to be that guy, but has anyone considered that there might be something sinister about this and that perhaps these blu-rays might be tracked or something? This could all be an experiment to collect data on pirating and whatnot. It sounds really out there and farfetched, but don't any of you find it suspicious they're giving away 8000 free copies, on blu-ray no less? It's suspicious. So the options are "marketing, duh" or "conspiracy theories!", in which case I'll go with "marketing". The volume they give away only has 2 episodes compared to 5 on the commercial release, so it's not a replacement for it, meaning they have nothing to lose. I doubt they even made note of who got each free copy. There were just handed out to attendees, not sent to a specific pre-selected list of known individuals. I don't appreciate your shortsighted snark. Blu-rays are rather pricy to produce. Distributing 8000 free copies containing the first two episodes of a one cour anime is, to my knowledge, entirely unprecedented. From an business stand point, that has to take a chunk out of their profits. So what would they get in return? I pity you if you think altruism runs high in the business world. It has happened before in the past where corporations have made attempts at tracking piracy of their own products. The anime industry is huge but also heavily pirated. It would make sense they'd do this. |
| ^ Jmal mentioned "marketing" not "altruism", no? I don't think he ever denies that blu-rays cost money to make, but that does not mean your conspiracy theory of there is something "sinister" rings any truer. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
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