A) You're wrong.Originally Posted by Peytral
B) Apparently it is filled with idiots who don't know how to do business, or they wouldn't be going digital only. The option for both disc and digital should be available 100% of the time, no matter what. Any company that doesn't do this should apologise to its consumerbase.
Oh well. I guess a while after the game's released we can play XSEED's funeral march as the company goes bankrupt due to its horrible business decisions and incompetent staff.
We can only hope.
Sadly, I think we should just swallow our sadness and move on. There's likely nothing we can do. I doubt we can convince them to do retail at this late a stage, if we ever could in the first place.
Oh well, at least Solatorobo comes out on DS this month. I can take my solace in getting that. And when the few UMD PSP games that are left do come out as well.
Yeah, well I think I'll be buying that used now, as a thank you for punishing me for wanting a game on disc.
You're being way too petty over this.
I will probably try to get this game anyway. I've been really back and forth on this now, because I love XSEED a lot and want CP, but as I said I can't enjoy DD properly. I'll try my hardest to enjoy it, but this game is significantly lower on my priority list than it would have been, were it at retail. The thought of a digital only future scares me, to be quite honest.
Out of curiosity, what credentials do you have in the realm of economics/business, specifically as applied to video game publishing companies? Somehow I have a feeling that the folks at XSEED have put a lot more effort into their cost-benefit analysis than you have.
I'm guessing none. Although I'm pretty disappointed with it, I can still understand why they did it. Comsumers that feel self-entitled to things really need to understand things like how retail and businesses work. The only business I truly do question, is Nintendo with their 3 RPGs, giving it to pretty much everywhere in the world BUT North America, even with a majority of people asking them. That's the only strange coperate decision that made me lift an eyebrow...
I'll tell you that I, myself, am not at all a fan of download-only releases. I wish everything would get a physical release, and I really hate it when companies announce that a game is getting released digital-only. But the fact of the matter is, most gamers really are OK with digital releases (a lot of gamers even prefer it!), and physical releases cost a LOT of money to make. If we released this game on UMD, maybe we'd get another... say, 1000 sales? Pure guess, and maybe even a high one. So OK, we sold more copies, great... but the amount of money we'd have to spend to MAKE those copies -- between UMD production, manual production, box production, distribution, shelf space at retailers (optional but generally recommended), etc. -- would FAR outweigh the money we'd make from those extra 1000 sales... and probably another 5000 on top of that, to boot!
In the end, we'd lose money, pure and simple. See, while we absolutely love this game, we know full well that it appeals only to a very small niche. As much as we'd like to believe it'll sell hundreds of thousands of copies and make us millionaires, and as much as it arguably DESERVES to sell that much, the chances of it happening are pretty darned infinitesimal... whereas the chances of us losing SO MUCH MONEY on it due to production costs that we end up in great, great debt are, sadly, pretty darned high.
So in the end, it really does come down to one question: Is it worth releasing Corpse Party at all, knowing that it'll be digital distribution only? And the answer we came up with was yes. The game is amazing, and deserves to be played by English-speakers. And as much as we wish we could give you the UMD version you so desire... it just isn't possible. I'm really sorry.
-Tom
this thread is fail.
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