Man, I've never seen the vinyl struggle so bad to sell either. And those tshirt sales are just sad - they've said "only 4 left" since early Friday morning. Goes to show that some games just deserve a standard release with nothing else as their fanbase isn't big enough to support all the extra items.
I really hope these slow sales of the CEs will get LRG to realize that maybe they were priced a little high. Y's Origin CE just seemed of poor quality with how cheap everything felt and how the contents were just flopping around inside the package without being secured. As other people have already posted it just seemed like a big box PC release. Hope these two CEs are much better considering the price. I also wouldn't want a 4 disc soundtrack carelessly packed as that could lead to big jewel case scratches.
We've sold over 100 shirts. There's no risk on our end since we're selling them on behalf of Fangamer. 100 shirts in two days is actually really good. We've also sold 450 vinyl records - again, no major risk there - there's only 50 left and they'll all sell eventually.
The 4 in-stock shirts are Unisex XS. As you can probably guess, most of our customers wear Large and up.
Things don't always "flop around" in our CEs. The art book for Ys did because it's a large size and occupies most of the tray. Games and soundtracks are always nicely affixed into fitted tray inserts (even with Ys). In response to the Ys feedback we created a fitted sleeve to hold printed stuff so it wouldn't "flop around". The art prints for Nex Machina will be held in one.
For an example of a CE where things don't flop around - take a look at our Wonder Boy CE, which we received overwhelmingly positive feedback on. Things are nicely held in place.
The Wonder Boy CE was $64.99. It came with a soundtrack CD, folded poster, and trading cards. I don't understand why that CE has been so well loved by those that got it, but these similarly specced and priced CEs are being met with so much negative backlash. Is it because Ys was underwhelming and people are judging based solely on that? Is it because Wonder Boy has strong resale value and Ys does not? I just don't get it.
Regardless of what anyone's perception is here, this weekend's CE releases have sold very well - we probably could have printed 100 or 200 less and been fine but we wanted to make sure we could meet demand.
This nonsense where people feel the need to analyze a sale like it was a failure, just because it stayed in stock for more than a few minutes, has to stop. People can't want us to better serve demand while still expecting us to sell out in a minute. The two things are mutually exclusive.
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