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Originally posted by fxho:
That will be tough. I mean, how much you can "remove" to make it an expansion disk! As was written before, it adds an extra scenario, where you can get all three girls together.
It adds a litte more than that, I think... It also adds more voices to some of the characters (Even Cassius, I think), and some other stuff I've forgotten about, but I think there is enough stuff to make an expansion, even if it becomes a very "small" expansion.
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Even if you can make it work that way, you will screw up when it comes to economics: the only people who are going to buy the "expansion" are the ones who already have the game.
And just how many people won't buy either Slave Bazaar or Renaisaance (if Peaqch Princess decides to release both)!? People either won't buy either Slave Bazaar or Renaisannce for these reasons:
1. People won't buy Slave Bazaar because that they feel that it would be a waste since Peach Princess will release Renaissance anyway; it's exactly the same game and adds soem new stuff to the old scenario and is therefore also even better than Slave Bazaar.
2. People won't buy Renaissance because that they alreday brought Slave Bazaar and would think of it as a waste to buy Renaissance, since Renaissance is almost the same game as Slave Bazaar, then what'd be the point of buying it, except for some new stuuff in it? Even if Slave Bazaar becomes quite popular among Peach Princess customers, I doubt that any except the most hard-core fans of Reanissance will buy Renaissance just for "the same game with some new stuff". That's why I think that an expansion would be better if they want to release Renaisssance after Salve Bazaar... Just think, when they decided to add a trailer at the end of "the Lord of the Rings" movie, most of the fans (and even non-fans) were disappointed since they alreday had seen the movie - and now they would have to pay to see the same movie again just to see "some extra stuff" int he form of a 3-minute trailer? People might get the same feeling about Renaissance if Peach Princess decides to release both Renaissance and Slave Bazaar.
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Also, how much you will charge (selling price) for this expansion? (remember, cost of manufacturing, etc.) (I feel like a real sucker when it comes to Blizzard's expansions.)
Hmm, I don't really know what i'd like the price to be but since Peach Princess doens't need all of Renaissance to make thins expansion from will, they could perhaps get it cheaper (althrough I don't except Will to be that merciful [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img]), and if that was the case, then they could sell it a little cheaper than Slave Bazaar. Otherwise, I don't really know.
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I don't think it is so easy. I mean, since the anime is so new, I doubt it is for licensing yet. Also, it will depend of how it is marketed; unlike Softcel which did mention about Doukyuusei being a game, Nutech has made no such "big" notes about their DVD releases.
That might be true, but still... Well, if Nutech were told that there was a game and that it's being released in english, then they might make even a small comment about it, who knows?
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As for not releasing the game at all, I could live with it. If the game/anime does gather enough attention from me, there is always Himeya
Well, I myself could live without Renaissance, but it would still be a fun game to see...
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BTW, what "other" people? ^_^ If PeaPri decides to ditch Slave Bazaar, only current posters/lurkers will know about it. Your usual newcomer, most of the time, don't bother to read old threads (has happened before in NG, and we are dommed to repeat that)
Heh, who knows hoe many people who urs out ther ein the darkness? There are those who often reads thids board, but never posts, or posts very seldom. So even if you say "just posters/lurkers", there would eventually be soem rumors about the whole thing anyway... and whoile msot newcomers doesn't bother to read allt hat much of the old trhreads, i'm sure that they do read one thread here and there. Besides, you can do a serach her eon these boards, so finding info about certain subject isn't too hard.
*sigh* Well, we might not agree on what is being discussed here, but I think we can agree on that Peach Princess has a few opinions on what to do in this... and every choice has it's risk too (as you no doubt know):
1, They could release slave Bazaar and later Renaissance, but in doing so, they risk to sell much less of either Slave Bazaar or Renaissance (for reasons, see above), and it might also disappoint some of the people who alreday brough Slave Bazaar.
2. They could release jsut Renaissance, but Will might not agree on doing it, even if Peach Princess tells them that they'd have good reasons to do so.
3. They could release just Slave Bazaar and never release Renaissance, but this might disappoint some of the fans. And what if there as a large demand for it in the future?
4. They could release Slave Bazaar and make Renaissance into an expansion, as suggested above, but it might be costly, and it is uncertain if Will would agree to do so.
5. They could drop both Slave Bazaar and Renaissance, but this wouldn't be all that good - people here is longing for seeing a game made by Ruf in english... Besides, the work on Slave Bazaar has alreday begun and the rights are brought. To drop it now would be a total waste of money.
Do we agree? For now, choice 3 sounds most likely to what Peach Princess will do...
