JAPPO wrote:I don't mean steal, but if you just watched it on TV or borrowed someone's DVD or something..?
You HAVE to buy something to be a fan?
Not at all, watching it on TV supports the show via the advertising.
I mean when the show is purely watched thru illicit means (I know someone who refused to watch it on TV because it was edited, but also refused to buy the DVDs because 'it costs to much' and he believed it didn't deserve his money).
My point being if you only watch a show via illicit means (and everyone has seen a fansub of something, that's not in and of itself a problem, it's if you support the show in some way AFTER you do) you are hurting the show, and creating issues (everyone who downloads isn't a thief either, and every download isn't always a lost sale, but when a show gets higher download numbers than it does DVD sales, and has tons of fans who apparently have no more love or respect for a show than to bootleg it and then claim themselves being a huge fan, it is upsetting) that can cause the lack of more of that franchise, especially when the product is of a good quality (and not every product is a good quality one, especially in regards to Dragonball Z in the USA), but you need to support the stuff you care about.
Best way to shorten that to an easy way for everyone to understand without reading my overly complicated explanation.
Without the continued sales of the games, manga, figures, DVDs, etc. we wouldn't be getting Evolution (for those who are looking forward to it), we wouldn't be getting Kai (for those who are looking forward to it), we wouldn't have gotten the special last year, more CDs, more figures, shirts, hats, keychains, and anything else that you can think of that you have sitting in your room and like, no matter the franchise those things appear because of sales and money made.
And a further gag is this. It's quite likely a lot of the stuff we are getting a lot of this modern stuff because of the Toonami airing of Dragonball Z (watching that lead to the Budokai games, which were also released in Japan, which helped remind and raise Dragonball Z back up a bit, and led to more stuff).
So I'm not against the TV watchers, or the DVD borrowers (although if you enjoyed it so much via borrowing a DVD, you'd think buying one disk wouldn't be out of the realm of realism). I'm against the people who scream about how great fans they are, when the entirety of support they give to a franchise is frankly, not anything beyond the loudness of the scream.
