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    On 7/17/2019 at 11:28 PM, secret_no_03 said:

    So, be a slave to predatory practices, just go support a band who have absolutely no excuse for not releasing anything besides not being able to find a singer who can handle Mana's ego and are in no way hurting for money as M10M consistently make a mint and Közi has 4 projects including a solo project going on. The only person who could use the money is probably Yu~ki, but I doubt it. This is just predatory pricing to capitalize on starved fans who will buy anything they put out and Mana knows that. When you price something this ridiculously, and it just be a single disc, blu-ray or not you're essentially making an idiot tax to see how stupid and guilbile your fan base nearly 20 years after your last release. Over $150 for a single disc release is beyond ridiculous, but people will eat it up and they'll just release the next thing with as little cotent as possible.

     

    It's called minimum viable product as in, what the minimum effort someone is willing to put into a product for the maximum profit. If you price something this high, expect it to be pirated by those outside of Japan. This shit is the equivalent of virtue signaling in politics. You're no greater or better or more devout a fan just because you paid double what something is worth or everyone who buys shit on yahoo auctions or mercari would be the biggest and best fans in the world. Speak with your wallet as pandering to a band and just accepting whatever they're feeding you sends the wrong message and they'll be confused when their sales for the next one are flat if they even think about charging $200 for say, 2 discs and a photo book. The holier than thou anti-piracy sector of VK is always something to behold.

    They went on hiatus because they all got burned out by everything and wanted to go in different directions musically (amongst other reasons) and I highly doubt they'd ever get back together and release new material. As for new mints, Moi dix Mois hasn't released anything since 2012. We hardly know anything about their personal lives so who's to say for sure that it is Yu~ki that needs the money. Just because Közi is in many bands doesn't automatically mean he's well off. In a perfect world, sure; but we don't live in one. Bands are also businesses so they're allowed to set prices to whatever they want . As consumer, we have the power to not buy.

     

    Regardless of price, it would've been uploaded anyways. My issue with this isn't that it was available online, but that it was so soon. There should have been a longer grace period instead of just a week a and a half. There were too many people begging for it and the one of the guys who did uploaded someone else's rip and then felt guilty about it. If this were a GazettE release, there probably would've been riots. 

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    If you were really guilty, then you shouldn't have uploaded the Blu-ray in the first place.


    This fandom reeks of entitlement due to so many people thinking they're owed a live recording simply because it is"at such a disgustingly high price".  And it's not just this one release I'm talking about. Well guess what? It's a Blu-ray so of course it's gonna be more costly than a DVD. There are many reasons that can justify the price of this release. First, this is their first release in nearly 18 years (I'm not including anything released by Nippon after their hiatus). Second, if anyone knows Mana, then you should know that he's not a cheap date. Thirdly, if you truly love the band, then you wouldn't be complaining about prices; you'd be supporting them. I understand not everyone is able to do this, but you also wouldn't be whining to get the full live uploaded either. You should've saved up for it then.

    Finally being able to buy a new item from MALICE MIZER was an exciting experience. All I could buy before was old and used. There were some items still in the original packaging, but there wasn't really a sense of pride in buying something that hit the market nearly twenty years ago.

     

    If you love a band, please out of respect, buy things from said favorite band. Do it so that they can create more things for you to enjoy.

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