| I think each episode should cost one dollar. Pretty fair, huh? 25 episodes for 25 dollars. I don't know the average price of an episode, but as there are series that cost like 100 dollars, I bet they are much overpriced. So, what is the average price and why? |
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| Yeah, everything should be $1 for 1 unit. You buy one gallon of gas for 1 dollar. You buy 1 gallon of milk for 1 dollar. You buy 1 piece of candy for one dollar. You buy one new BMW for one dollar. It totally makes sense, why hasn't the world thought of this?! It's the true solution to capitalism. |
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TallonKarrde23 said: Don't compare digital content with BMWYeah, everything should be $1 for 1 unit. You buy one gallon of gas for 1 dollar. You buy 1 gallon of milk for 1 dollar. You buy 1 piece of candy for one dollar. You buy one new BMW for one dollar. It totally makes sense, why hasn't the world thought of this?! It's the true solution to capitalism. |
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TallonKarrde23 said: Yeah, everything should be $1 for 1 unit. You buy one gallon of gas for 1 dollar. You buy 1 gallon of milk for 1 dollar. You buy 1 piece of candy for one dollar. You buy one new BMW for one dollar. It totally makes sense, why hasn't the world thought of this?! It's the true solution to capitalism. That's not what he was saying... |
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lupadim said: TallonKarrde23 said: Don't compare digital content with BMWYeah, everything should be $1 for 1 unit. You buy one gallon of gas for 1 dollar. You buy 1 gallon of milk for 1 dollar. You buy 1 piece of candy for one dollar. You buy one new BMW for one dollar. It totally makes sense, why hasn't the world thought of this?! It's the true solution to capitalism. Digital content? There is no such thing as a DIGITAL-only version of an anime that costs 100 fucking dollars. You are buying physical goods (the dvd/bd). Cupquake said: TallonKarrde23 said: Yeah, everything should be $1 for 1 unit. You buy one gallon of gas for 1 dollar. You buy 1 gallon of milk for 1 dollar. You buy 1 piece of candy for one dollar. You buy one new BMW for one dollar. It totally makes sense, why hasn't the world thought of this?! It's the true solution to capitalism. That's not what he was saying... I know - but I'm showing what he DID say is FUCKING STUPID and not how business or MAKING MONEY works. No fucking surprise coming from lupadim. |
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TallonKarrde23 said: NO SHIT SHERLOCK! And did I say that a DVD should cost one dollar? I am saying that EACH EPISODE would cost one dollar, and they would add a price for the production of the DVDs.lupadim said: TallonKarrde23 said: Don't compare digital content with BMWYeah, everything should be $1 for 1 unit. You buy one gallon of gas for 1 dollar. You buy 1 gallon of milk for 1 dollar. You buy 1 piece of candy for one dollar. You buy one new BMW for one dollar. It totally makes sense, why hasn't the world thought of this?! It's the true solution to capitalism. Digital content? There is no such thing as a DIGITAL-only version of an anime that costs 100 fucking dollars. You are buying physical goods (the dvd/bd). So, let's say you are buying an anime with 25 episodes. You would pay 25 dollars plus the production of the DVD and a small "tax", so you would pay a total of 30 dollars. |
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lupadim said: TallonKarrde23 said: NO SHIT SHERLOCK! And did I say that a DVD should cost one dollar? I am saying that EACH EPISODE would cost one dollar, and they would add a price for the production of the DVDs.lupadim said: TallonKarrde23 said: Don't compare digital content with BMWYeah, everything should be $1 for 1 unit. You buy one gallon of gas for 1 dollar. You buy 1 gallon of milk for 1 dollar. You buy 1 piece of candy for one dollar. You buy one new BMW for one dollar. It totally makes sense, why hasn't the world thought of this?! It's the true solution to capitalism. Digital content? There is no such thing as a DIGITAL-only version of an anime that costs 100 fucking dollars. You are buying physical goods (the dvd/bd). So, let's say you are buying an anime with 25 episodes. You would pay 25 dollars plus the production of the DVD and a small "tax", so you would pay a total of 30 dollars. That's fucking stupid, plus a lot of shows ARE sold at that price. |
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TallonKarrde23 said: Then, they using my logic and doing one dollar for each episode.lupadim said: TallonKarrde23 said: NO SHIT SHERLOCK! And did I say that a DVD should cost one dollar? I am saying that EACH EPISODE would cost one dollar, and they would add a price for the production of the DVDs.lupadim said: TallonKarrde23 said: Don't compare digital content with BMWYeah, everything should be $1 for 1 unit. You buy one gallon of gas for 1 dollar. You buy 1 gallon of milk for 1 dollar. You buy 1 piece of candy for one dollar. You buy one new BMW for one dollar. It totally makes sense, why hasn't the world thought of this?! It's the true solution to capitalism. Digital content? There is no such thing as a DIGITAL-only version of an anime that costs 100 fucking dollars. You are buying physical goods (the dvd/bd). So, let's say you are buying an anime with 25 episodes. You would pay 25 dollars plus the production of the DVD and a small "tax", so you would pay a total of 30 dollars. That's fucking stupid, plus a lot of shows ARE sold at that price. But some shows are sold for 300 dollars. Is that the capitalism? Oh, it must be communism. |
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| it should be between $1-$3 an episode depending on how new it is |
| Just because you know how to use a torrent does not give you the god given right to pirate. My actual list: https://kitsu.io/users/mattbenz99/library check out my youtube channel for my review: https://www.youtube.com/user/mattbenz99 |
rederoin said: GZ for the industry. With 450 dollars, 5k people are going to buy the anime. But if it were 30 dollars, 300k people would buyIf they want to lose money, sure. The industry is doing fine with its 450$+(in yen) p/12-13 episodes. |
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Jody32 said: But if they do something cheap, a lot of people will buy. Right now, only elite people (or very dedicated people) can buy anime in DVD.@Lupadim It would make more sense for an episode to cost around 4$-5$ in accordance to a standard 23-24 minute episode. On a DVD set, the rest of the money would be distributed to packaging and costs, and any extra's such as trailers. But naturally this varies according to country and DVD region. The thing I mentioned above would be the way its done for Australian copies. Costs per episode would be a lot higher in Japan and lower in the US. Also you have to take into account economies of scale, meaning the higher the demand the cheaper it will get. 5$ is insane, who the fuck would pay 120 dollars for SAO |
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lupadim said: rederoin said: GZ for the industry. With 450 dollars, 5k people are going to buy the anime. But if it were 30 dollars, 300k people would buyIf they want to lose money, sure. The industry is doing fine with its 450$+(in yen) p/12-13 episodes. supply and demand isn't that easy to figure out. Of course the demand would rise, but by how much? Is making anime that much cheaper going to give companies more or less money? You can't really know, that's the problem. |
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Cupquake said: They should lower the price when they notice that there is a lot of demand. Look at Fate/Zero being sold for 300 dollars or Code Geass for 60.lupadim said: rederoin said: GZ for the industry. With 450 dollars, 5k people are going to buy the anime. But if it were 30 dollars, 300k people would buyIf they want to lose money, sure. The industry is doing fine with its 450$+(in yen) p/12-13 episodes. supply and demand isn't that easy to figure out. Of course the demand would rise, but by how much? Is making anime that much cheaper going to give companies more or less money? You can't really know, that's the problem. |
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lupadim said: Cupquake said: They should lower the price when they notice that there is a lot of demand. Look at Fate/Zero being sold for 300 dollars or Code Geass for 60.lupadim said: rederoin said: GZ for the industry. With 450 dollars, 5k people are going to buy the anime. But if it were 30 dollars, 300k people would buyIf they want to lose money, sure. The industry is doing fine with its 450$+(in yen) p/12-13 episodes. supply and demand isn't that easy to figure out. Of course the demand would rise, but by how much? Is making anime that much cheaper going to give companies more or less money? You can't really know, that's the problem. Key word - SOLD in 'being sold', not just being listed at that price. People buy it. |
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lupadim said: Cupquake said: They should lower the price when they notice that there is a lot of demand. Look at Fate/Zero being sold for 300 dollars or Code Geass for 60.lupadim said: rederoin said: GZ for the industry. With 450 dollars, 5k people are going to buy the anime. But if it were 30 dollars, 300k people would buyIf they want to lose money, sure. The industry is doing fine with its 450$+(in yen) p/12-13 episodes. supply and demand isn't that easy to figure out. Of course the demand would rise, but by how much? Is making anime that much cheaper going to give companies more or less money? You can't really know, that's the problem. I'm sure that you know more about the industry than the people who have worked in the industry for decades. You should move to Japan and start working in the industry, you'd make millions. |
lupadim said: Cupquake said: They should lower the price when they notice that there is a lot of demand. Look at Fate/Zero being sold for 300 dollars or Code Geass for 60.lupadim said: rederoin said: GZ for the industry. With 450 dollars, 5k people are going to buy the anime. But if it were 30 dollars, 300k people would buyIf they want to lose money, sure. The industry is doing fine with its 450$+(in yen) p/12-13 episodes. supply and demand isn't that easy to figure out. Of course the demand would rise, but by how much? Is making anime that much cheaper going to give companies more or less money? You can't really know, that's the problem. Do you know that if they made Fate/Zero $60 they would gain more money? I don't think anime is that elastic; it's a luxury item |
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rederoin said: Brazil needs me morelupadim said: Cupquake said: They should lower the price when they notice that there is a lot of demand. Look at Fate/Zero being sold for 300 dollars or Code Geass for 60.lupadim said: rederoin said: GZ for the industry. With 450 dollars, 5k people are going to buy the anime. But if it were 30 dollars, 300k people would buyIf they want to lose money, sure. The industry is doing fine with its 450$+(in yen) p/12-13 episodes. supply and demand isn't that easy to figure out. Of course the demand would rise, but by how much? Is making anime that much cheaper going to give companies more or less money? You can't really know, that's the problem. I'm sure that you know more about the industry than the people who have worked in the industry for decades. You should move to Japan and start working in the industry, you'd make millions. |
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| He may be dumb, but there is a bit of cleverness behind his words. It's better to sell more with cheaper values than selling ridiculously fewer copies by a higher value. BUT, it only works figuratively, because as i neither live nor work in Japan, i have no idea how the anime market actually works. |
Jody32 said: I am not trolling and what you mean?With that response I am just going to assume that this a troll thread. Besides what you are saying suggests you know almost nothing about the business aspect of the Japanese animation industry. Think with me: If there was no piracy, no streams, no torrents, how would you have known about Fate/Zero and Code Geass as example? Piracy helps sharing stuff, and cheap prices do that as well. The more people that know the anime = more people to share the anime = more people buying the anime = profit |
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AstronomyDomine said: He may be dumb, but there is a bit of cleverness behind his words. It's better to sell more with cheaper values than selling ridiculously fewer copies by a higher value. Not in this case. That would work for something like coke and Pepsi. If coke prices were cut in half, the demand would increase a ton, most people would abandon pepsi and buy coke because it's so much cheaper and coke is a good substitute for pepsi But since anime is more of a luxury item, only certain people are going to buy it anyway. Since most people watch it free online, you're probably only going to get the sameish amount of people buying anime that probably would buy more. The increase in demand would probably not be enough to make it worth it for the companies. |
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Cupquake said: Not in this case. That would work for something like coke and Pepsi. If coke prices were cut in half, the demand would increase a ton, most people would abandon pepsi and buy coke because it's so much cheaper and coke is a good substitute for pepsi But since anime is more of a luxury item, only certain people are going to buy it anyway. Since most people watch it free online, you're probably only going to get the sameish amount of people buying anime that probably would buy more. The increase in demand would probably not be enough to make it worth it for the companies. Yeah, i thought of that. Concerning how anime like Kaiba and Fanstastic Children did horribly in the market, selling them in a cheaper manner could, perhaps, add a little to the overall sales numbers, but probably would be even worse considering the income |
| Personally I've always felt a bit ripped off buying anime DVDs. That's why I stopped. Lucky Star ran me $16 per DVD, each DVD having four episodes. Six DVDs at that price go to around $96, plus tax and / or shipping per DVD. So let's imagine the entire series is online on a service similar to iTunes, each episode at $4 (based entirely on the pricing of the DVDs). It would cost a less thanks to the exclusion of shipping and taxes, but still around $96. I won't say that it's not worth that much, but I'm not willing to pay nearly a hundred dollars for the ability to watch a single anime. Some people definitely are, though. |
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