
Originally Posted by
EtherianChronicles
Scott, if I tried to run up a mountain blindfolded and backwards, and I kept falling and failed, would it be correct for me to say, "it just doesn't work - I cannot climb the mountain!!" while flailing my arms about making excuses, as it seems you often do about reissues, vehicles, etc.?
No, hopefully someone would suggest that perhaps I try again in a modified way. Perhaps remove the blindfold, or I don't know, run up the mountain face-forward. Or maybe take the nice tram that is right there.
That's what you sound like, Scott. "I just cannot climb up a mountain! It's impossible!" when you make a miscalculation, do not it succeed as hoped, or set up unrealistic expectations in the first place about performance. That's why statements such as above marr your credibility, because they always seem constructed to "CYA" to your bosses or deflect future criticism - "I didn't do it, it's not my fault" says the kid before the adults realize that there are cookies missing from the cookie jar.
I swear I could break my keyboard each time I hear, "We can't make them if fans won't buy them!" when you are talking about a product underperforming when there are clear reasons why. We have watched this line head towards death now because of these decisions - the fact it has lasted as long as it has is in spite of these constant blunders, and because of how committed fans of this franchise are. And we have watched people walk away - or not even start - because of mistakes like not having Teela and Sorceress and the others available except for $70-100 from third parties.
In October I sold off five Teelas for $60-70 each (I put them up for $5 less than the lowest I saw). Some may say that was wrong, but I had them, and I would have been silly to sell them forums less. They sold in a matter of hours for each one I put up. And yet you maintain that not enough people out there would buy her, it's just a "few fans", when I was selling her for so much more than retail and people were lining up and two even asked me if they could buy a second one at that price.
Scott, really - if your reply is going to be one of your stock phrases ("fans could save their pennies", "we can't make them if fans don't..."', "We cannot cater to every fan...") it's almost it worth it for you t do so because we have heard it all before. Just like when you put "fan demanded" in a character description, we know it's generally the opposite (I've searched - the supposedly "fan demanded" Fighting Foe Men have about .01% (almost incalculable) requests vs. any of the unmade vintage PoP, for example. Yet you have to "test" if PoP is popular enough with things like defective Frosta (again, "I cannot climb the mountain" and it's like - maybe if the figure wasn't defective out of the box, she would have sold better - not so much an indication of the PoP demand as a whole).
I will leave it at that - hopefully the mods will not delete this as I am being respectful, if critical, of your statements. But please don't think that the majority of us don't get what I have said above - we do. We put up with it to get these figures that we do want, but the saddest thing abrupt this line when all is said and done will be how it could have been even greater - dare say, magnificent - if only so much time was spent giving the line love, not giving fans who love MOTU the standard line.