Originally Posted by
DianaLove
This is the saddest thread to read.
I'm so looking forward to this release. I understand how everyone feels about the physical releases. I feel the same way. Physical is way better. As a consumer, you vote with your dollar. Normally I would stand with all of you in agreement. However I have to say, and I'm 100% sure of this. Randy is right. He is not saying what he is saying to be mean. If 1000 people buy a re-release on physical and then they move to digital only and 400-700 people buy it. No executive is searching for those missing few hundred people. The decision has been made on physical releases and it seems final. Randy is 100% correct. If the sales dip too far, they will more likely just stop doing them all together than re-assess and go back to releasing things physically.
It also makes me sad because I know that the team that works on these releases puts an incredible amount of time, passion, and love into these releases and that they wait and wait to get them green lit by the powers that be at universal. They're like parents waiting for Christmas to surprise their kids, waiting to bring this stuff to the fans. Then the fans hear what it is, or that it's not physical and are essentially like... "eh, f@#% this, I'm not interested in that hard work you put into this. It's not how I hoped it would be, so it's worthless." Imagine being those people, who are stuck between an unmoving corporate structure that doesn't care at all about the fans, and the fans that won't support anything but getting it exactly the way they want, are very harsh and vocal about it and have no actual understanding of how this industry works. To me that seems like a really rough day at work.
I know I'm probably not changing anyone's mind, but I'm gonna keep buying these, and enjoying them. Maybe by purchasing these releases we're saying that people do still care about these releases, and those numbers may encourage a third party to license this material to release as a physical release in the future, because UNI isn't doing it either way.
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