Pieter wrote:Why the fuck do you care so much about other peoples purchases, as to be quoting every sentence about it on a message board? You seem to be passive agressive about this in a rather unhealthy way. Just voice your opinion and be quiet is my advice. You have good points (!) but you're agressively talking to people who really don't care about you if you keep this up.
People with good viewpoints that quietly express them and shut up get nowhere, and if you had of read my vitrolic rant you would have seen that in order for there to be process, I (and others) need to take a new route. I'[m being confrotational for the sake of getting in peoples faces, making them feel bad, or making them think about it as opposed to just being "regular internet joe #23423".
Opinions, as they say, are like assholes- everyone has one. I don't have an opinion- I have a cause.
it's not my intention to upset anyone or purport myself as being superior; I just want to throw out some common sense.
Basically that's cool, but I feel as if I've got to try and do something "new" to get it through to some people.
-How do you think they'd promote it? Better yet, what would they say about the previous set (the reason they discontinued)?
They wouldn't say a damn thing about the previous sets, as they've yet to address why the Ultimate Uncuts were discontinued (of course, in favour of these season sets, but still, why not keep doing the UUEs and then doing seasons after that?).
Could they go up in value at any point in time. I mean, they are the only R1 bilingual DVDs available to us uncut right? They are 4:3 and for the time being, its the only way to have these episodes this way legit from season three on..
Those DVDs are already owned by those who want them, or they're so widely available as overstock or second hand that their value has already been greatly decreased.
Also, am I the only one to notice that FUNimation has always charged out the ass for DBZ, and now all of the sudden it's cheap as cheap can be? Something tells me FUNimation knows this is a flawed release, and the only way they can sell it is because it's so cheap. Hell, every single review I've read points to the price as the main selling point.
I can't quote the post, and I'm not going to hold it against VegettoEX, becuase it was before I actually posted here, but it was some defence that FUNimation had to pay a lot of money per year for DBZ and therefore, had to charge a lot of money for their single releases.
The single releases were, for the most part, almost pure profit. Apart from the Dragonboxes, I don't honestly think Toei gave a shit about foreign DVD releases, and moreso cared about royalties for insanely popular merchandise. Of course, FUNimation will never admit or deny any of this, moreso will just sweep it under the rug, as they've tried to do for many issues in the past (and present, and will continue to do in the future).
However, we're not going to get one regardless of how many fanboys complain.
This is making my fingers hurt- We won't get one because no one is willing to take a stand, bar a scattered few, because everyone has basically said "oh it's cheap, whatever". I completely and totally disagree with the 16:9 release but it's not as if FUNImation is making any kind of effort to give us a limited, unremastered 4:3 release. I would settle for that for DBZ, even though the issue of principle is still there. Of course, depending on how it was handled is another issue in itself.
Reason being is that organizing a boycott of this boxset in order to get the message out to FUNI that what they are giving us is insufficient is far beyond the ability of the hardcore DBZ fanbase and that the majority of us would rather spend 30 dollars on a cropped season one than try and make a demand.
This, regardless of intention, describes the miserable situation perfectly, of course this is written as an excuse, which is still pitiful, ESPECIALLY for this forum.
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Stop it with the defeatist attitude. I said it before, you are not slaves to the will of FUNimation, not when you don't decide to buy the first cheap-as-chips piece-of-shit set they squeeze out.
FDlink: Pretty much sound and excellent post, thanks!
