outlawauron said:
| But I think it does and other companies certainly do. With the type of fanbase that Tales has and the nature of the games, I think it's more than beneficial to bring over the games in the series for the fans and to build up goodwill with said fanbase. People are far more likely to support a company who they think cares about them. In a lot of people's minds, that what Atlus and Nippon Ichi are as they bring over a ton of things big and small regardless of how much it could make. Aksys is also in this boat (Agarest War, Hakouki, etc.) and I think they've benefitted from it. |
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Why, though? You'll buy them anyway if they come later, right? There is no compelling reason to *lose money* on a proposition to satisfy some ephemerl sense of goodwill. Generally, it won't actually be appreciated by most of the fanbase because the next time this happens--the next time another Tales game is 'held hostage'-- they'll turn on you in a nanosecond and bitch that you didn't bring that game over to engender "goodwill".
(I'm not saying you, personally, woudn't appreciaite it and respond in kind, but I think you're kidding yourself if you think that most fans will appreciate this for any more than a few minutes, then it'l be back to baseline and "what haae you done for me lately"...really,it's the same for pretty mch everything in today's entitlement culture.)
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