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Ponycan USA Comments on Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers' Standard Blu-ray/DVD Cancellation

Plenty of people have said PonyCan USA should have said nothing instead.

Well, Robert's Anime Corner Store has mentioned that 90% of their pre-order action was in the Standard Editions. Make of that what you will

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Ponycan just keeps digging their hole deeper. We've gone from me not wanting to buy their overpriced collector's edition to me not wanting to buy anything they release. I wonder what the numbers for their costs and projections would have to be like for this to make any kind of financial sense.

Nyron wrote:

In this case, the show itself is worth far less than the stuff theyre packaging with it.

Why do you feel the need to continually dump on this show in every thread about it? Don't you have any shows you do like that you could go talk about instead of jumping into the middle of a conversation and trying to start a fight with, "Hey guys, I hate this show that you all like!" ?

objectively

Nyron wrote:

objectively

The moment you said that was the moment everyone stopped taking you seriously.

But people really need to move on, either you buy it at their price no matter how you feel about it or you don't. It's the whole their charging too much, ripping their customers off, their evil business men all over again. That's the whole point they are a business which means they are in it to make money and not please every fan who only wants to spend as cheaply as possible for a show. They may only sell a small number at a high price and still make a profit and be happy or they will break even or worse loose money. That's the risk they take as a business.

Well, Robert's Anime Corner Store has mentioned that 90% of their pre-order action was in the Standard Editions. Make of that what you will

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I know everyone wants to believe that's the case [about the other versions] - but it isn't. Almost all of our pre-order action for Rokka was in the regular editions - about 90%. When Rokka was announced all I heard from folks was a collective sigh of relief that maybe PonyCAN had finally seen the light and was going to start making their shows more affordable. But I imagine when they started counting up the recent retailer pre-books and found most of us were almost exclusively going in for the regular editions, they decided that so many orders for the CE had been sucked into the SE that the more profitable collectors edition was doomed unless it was the only edition they pressed. Given a choice, the standard editions is where the lions share of fan interest will go for any given show when released simultaneously. It has nothing to do with the CE not being desirable, it's just that so many people just can't justify forking out $15-$20 per episode for a show. Those prices (similar to the Japanese market) are absolutely outrageous no matter how many goodies they stuff in a box set. I have said this many times. And a multi-tiered release model that serves the multiple budgets in the marketplace needs sales volume that requires a studio to make distribution partnerships here in the US they do not seem willing to maintain. I have also said that many times - ad nauseum.

So unfortunately, yet another decent show gets 'Aniplexed'. We will need to cancel all pre-orders for the SE editions, but if you had one of the SE's on pre-order and want to change it to the CE (as PonyCAN clearly hopes you will do), just drop us a line.

It's an objectively bad show made on a $20 budget watched by <1000 fans who have no idea how business works. Go buy something good
instead or stream it.

But people really need to move on, either you buy it at their price no matter how you feel about it or you don't. It's the whole their charging too much, ripping their customers off, their evil business men all over again. That's the whole point they are a business which means they are in it to make money and not please every fan who only wants to spend as cheaply as possible for a show. They may only sell a small number at a high price and still make a profit and be happy or they will break even or worse loose money. That's the risk they take as a business.

As a person that runs a business I had a customer the other day come in tell me my price was too much and leave. Fine that's his choice while yesterday another customer who had a more expensive job to complete happily paid more than double to have it down right and with a quicker turn around time. Some times I'm the cheapest in town and will do it right while other times I'm not the cheapest and that's not what I'm going for.

It appears that they decided to only do non bare bones releases in chipboard boxes with extras and charge for them. And that is their CE and maybe in the future they will have a standard edition. But if all they do is a CE it's still their choice in the matter.