Bandai - A Terrible Company that Nobody Talks About
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- Bandai does a lot of really stupid stuff, and I feel like folks generally don't talk about it enough. As a Digimon fan, I'm constantly frustrated by their actions. I just want them to do better. In this video, I talk about my frustrations with the company, to put a spotlight on their bad behavior.
00:00 Intro
1:34 PART ONE: The Digivice Disaster
8:25 PART TWO: I Wish To Exchange Currency For Goods And Services
10:30 PART THREE: I didn't swear you cant prove it
14:05 Outro
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"To love Digimon is to love pain."
I feel that on a personal level
I'll go one better.....
"To love Gundam (well ANY mecha anime that isn't Evangelion) is to love pain and suffering."
Digimon and the tales series know how to give more pain ever needed to their fans.
So much pain,Peko.
I know, because I play vital bracelet, see the way they handle their app... Haiz...
@@kacklina Still salty over Tales of Hearts (DS version) being JP only and them only releasing the Vita remake internationally.
>Make a new figure/mokit/game line
>Shit sells well
>Release the next batch as limited version to increase profit
>People stop buying
>Thinking people are tired of the new line and completely scrap the whole thing
>Repeat
Kyoukai senki is still absolutely alive despite this
I hate p bandai so much alot of new gunpla release are just p bandai they put the phantom in p bandai they put the strike dagger in pbandai like wtf
@@gellog0530 look no further than the real grade impulse. Sure make the type 2 which is just a dark color variant a regular release but make the blast and sword impulse p bandai. This company causes me emotional damage
@@ShinKatto Store starts clearing them out by selling every Kyokai Senki kit at 100 yen be like:
Bandai the second a live service game doesn’t make a bajillion dollars in the first week: “death”
Meanwhile the Gundam fanbase having to deal with real-life DLCs for Gunpla for years and hoping every release isn't p-bandai
Or trying to get many of the shows on Blu-Ray and wondering about the future of the line if you’re an American buyer.
Also battle operations 2
I pray for Breaker 4's success. The team seems to know what they're doing. But seeing the limited roster and price, Bandai is highly likely to just shut the game down after launch without DLC support because they're fucking Bandai
Out of all of the companies on earth I sincerely desire for Bandai to have a mass layoff of their leadership in all branches.
Their treatment of the Gundan franchise and worse, consumer criticism is something that should not be tolerated!
Or Tamashii Nations releasing overpriced SH Monsterarts figures with minimal accesories and hit-or-miss figure quality
Every Elden Ring player knows the horror of BanDai Namco.
>Start game.
>FLASHBANG
I haven't checked if it's actually true yet now that it's out, but apparently with the release of the DLC that is being fixed, so supposedly no more Bandai Flashbang.
Yep no more flashbang can confirm finally my eyes are safe@EnergyBurst2
@@Destro517the only thing change in the land between is somehow redmane castle having an entire soldier protecting it before i do the festival. How that happen
I remembered when Bandai was the one who used to make the Yu-Gi-Oh card game before it got owned by Konami.
The Bandai version barely had anything to do with the manga or anime, and was only ever sold in cardass machines despite how the anime and manga depicts the cards being sold in booster packs, and of course, no one was buying the cards due to lack of interest and how unfaithful it all was.
As a Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, and Ultraman fan I know all too well the scumminess of Bandai and their obsession with Pbandai.
Bandai was the reason why Decker is horrible, because they forcefully shove the release of the gun which the bad guy uses to pilot that blue robot.
Source: Figure-Oh
Me watching my favorite forms of a Rider season either being P.B or not existing as S.H.F while I can only play with the red of each sentai season.
Now I understand why AliExpress is absolutely filled with fake Onepiece cards...
the one pieeeeece-
Being a SoulCalibur fan is suffering thanks to Bandai Namco’s stupidity
At least SC fans can justify it by Tekken taking up the slot of fighting game in their portfolio. What do they have in terms of racing recently? A bunch of garbage licensed Fast n Furious games, that's about it. Ridge Racer has been dead for 15 years, and Project CARS was sold to EA who promptly shut the series down.
@@TheLaXandroOh yeah that’s right. They also delisted Project Cars 1 & 2.
I still hold a slight grudge for SC3 being only on PS2.
Being a Tales and a Digimon fan is hell.
ALL I WANT IS FOR THE JAPANESE GAMES TO BE LOCALISED STOP REMAKING SYMPHONIA
Bandai: What’s that? You want more Symphonia but also involve the consultants behind Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League? You got it pal!
They’re that person in the house who can’t hear the banging on the frontdoor or a grenade blasting it open despite but they can stupidly hear the quiet creak of your bed from the next room like they have super-hearing on. With Bandai, it’s giving us crap we didn’t ask for over stuff we actually want.
a lot of people wanted Symphonia on something that wasn't PS3 or PC
if anything, I blame the fandom for that.
Symphonia is more like ported constantly based on the awful PS2 version. Not many that played the GameCube version actually likes that version. If anything, I rather see the PS2 remake Tales of Destiny Director's Cut get ported.
Symphonia has been on PC for ages, don't revisit it unless you're going to be serious about it, Bandai. Since it's on PC, it doesn't even really need to be ported to new consoles. Anyone with a laptop or an old desktop can play Symphonia.
so it's fucking Bandais fault metroid prime was delayed!
Nintendo is Force to Resurrect Retro Studios Out of Retirement.
According to old reports, Nintendo started bringing in Retro Studios employees to help them with level designs (which were Nintendo's major problem with Bamco's version of the game) and seeing what else they were doing with the Prime 1 remake, decided to just drop Bamco from the project and restart with Retro instead. The company should be deeply embarrassed they did so badly Nintendo had to publically apologize for their mistakes.
Even Gundam fans and Toku fans have issues with them, like their two biggest money making franchises and they are still fumbling
No kidding. I want to build the Zaku II in every grade I can because it's my favorite mobile suit, but finding a Master Grade that isn't the Char one is dang near impossible.
Why is KR Number 2 wearing One's Silver Gloves in my Figuarts?
Agreed, particular on how they handle PBandai releases and how they are making it super hard for people outside Japan to purchase Japan only PBandai releases. Its one of the rare occurrence that I the company actively prevent proxies from purchasing from them
it's because of licensing issues
they are lucky they monopolized the gundam brand especially on toyline otherwise the other company will cruch them to pulp
As a gunpla builder in Australia, I really dont like bandai's obsession with p-bandai. P-bandai kits are really annoying to get over here (usually costing about double to triple the price as you have to use a proxy service) and the recent delegation of wfm stuff to peeb makes me so danm sad
Ace Combat and Tales fans: "You are telling me that... we are the lucky ones compared to other Bandai Namco franchises???"
Somewhat... yes? As a Digimon fan and gamer I am really like reeeeeeeealy jealous of the Tales franchise because at least you guys get good video games every ones in a while 🥲
@@williamnoodles203 [Wipes off the tears from mobile titles that keep failing and shutting down, idle-game-like mechanics creeping in mothership titles since as far back as Graces, lack of localization for half of everything pre-2015 and legacy games not named "Symphonia" keep being neglected for modern ports/remasters necessitating ownership of every out-of-production gaming hardware ever to play everything]
@@aquapendulum A guy below you said they did similar things with Tales, in that they just turned into mobile games and other lesser-effort slop.
@@user-fe8gx3ie5v The fact that publishers create mobile spinoffs by itself is fine. Their purpose is to be revenue-collecting live services to fund the company's major projects, which we still get. Tales of Arise is the highest-budget game in the series to date, far from low-effort. Its idle-game-like mechanic is still troubling by itself but that trend started all the way back in Graces, and Graces was made back when the mobile boom didn't happen so that can't be attributed to the mobile gaming trend.
The real failing of mobile Tales titles is that they fail to even serve the purpose of bringing in revenue for the company, so what good are they for? Nothing.
@@user-fe8gx3ie5v (Rays' attempt at action combat on a touchscreen is actually high-effort and commendable, but action combat on a touchscreen still inherently feels bad, and gacha economy makes the combat imbalanced anyway so the core mechanics are all invalidated by it. That's it for mobile Tales.)
Imagine being a fan of Bandai properties in Australia. Despite Australia being closer to Japan than the United States and being close to South East Asian countries that have Premium Bandai available (and have had a brief period in the early 2000s where we got a very popular Japanese toyline and anime series known as Crush Gear localised and sold while it was never shown in the United States), we have *no* chance to get PreBan items such as various Masked Rider items and Gundam models, and even... yes, the PreBan exclusive Crush Gear revival sets. As a fan of the incredibly underrated 90s series After War Gundam X, this means I'm unable to get the now expensive model kit of the Daughtress, which was the first release of this *MASS PRODUCTION* Mobile Suit meant for *ARMY BUILDING.* It is *SO* counter-intuitive to sell that Mobile Suit as a limited run exclusive model.
As a South-East Asian here, having P-Bandai here is like basically not having it at all. Bandai allocates like 20 pieces to each country which gets eaten up by scalpers and their bots no less than a second after pre-orders open. And this isn't even an exaggeration but the truth.
Plus, P-Bandai preorders open waay before office hours end so you just know its degenerate basement dwellers who think scalping is their personality and full time grind that have access to it.
4:13 Coming from someone who’s a Gundam fan, one of the biggest reasons why I got into Gunpla is because of its accessibility to their huge catalogue of kits. Almost everything was available if you looked in the right places.
Now, in addition to the Gunpla drought we’ve had for years, a large chunk of new releases are PBandai, which practically neuters the appeal of the hobby.
Edit: I’d also like to add that PBandai was fine when it was just recolors and variants, and it’s recently become a problem when new molds/entirely new kits were being sent there.
Speaking as a tokusatsu, srw, mecha, magical girl fan and digimon fan, yeah this sums up so much of my frustrations with bandai
Sadly a lot of Japanese companies are tone deaf. They will go backwards instead of going forward. SEGA of Japan instantly comes to mind. At 1 point they were ruling the console market. But shot themselves in the foot by pumping out expesive add-ons like the SEGA CD with little to no marketing or clarification on what it was. And they went against their American branch's advise to not roll out the Saturn so soon because the Genesis was still selling well. They always found a way to overextend themselves. And now they're nothing more than a 3rd party game publisher.
Sega of Japan is particularly backwards with Sonic because they’re so Anti-Western Sonic... Yet Sonic does far better in the west and so many of the woes he’s suffered is because of them not knowing when to not get in their own way or a stubborn inability to admit they don’t know what they’re doing like the entire 2010’s Meta era of Sonic.
I could be wrong but we could have gotten Sonic Mania 2 by now had they learned to just keep their mouths shut and let people who know what they’re doing do their jobs.
Sonic Team by extension made some serious boneheaded calls like fooling around with a game engine for better shadow effects more than actually working on the game which is the story of Sonic Forces or splitting up the team to half to work on a Wii title (Eventually releasing as Secret Rings) at a crucial time in a period where several studios were making the leap to the PS3-Xbox 360 Gen when Sonic 2006 was being worked on. A game that needed all the manpower it required as the centrepiece of the 15th Anniversary.
The fanmade remake Project-06 shows just how badly their decision backfired when fans are able to give the game the polish and bug fixing it needed. When you see how phenomenal that’s turning out for a project that’s still being worked on by one guy and a small group to assist him, it makes the decisions made for 2006 by a corporation with more manpower at their disposal even dumber in comparison. And you have the likes of IGN who loves to keep beating on that dead horse despite the fact we have absolute trash being put out now that’s fundamentally worse than an unpolished game from 2006.
There’s also the whole treatment of the secondary characters and the stupid mandates involved.
Sonic suffers from what I like to call stop-go momentum. Every once in a while, Sonic will get some traction and people raving; then Sega proceeds to put out something that halts the momentum.
Sonic Generations did well. Then Lost World comes along.
Sonic Mania received praise and people got excited for Forces. Then Forces drops.
The Sonic Movie was almost dead on arrival with that awful Movie Sonic design before the big retool to make a Movie Sonic that’s good looking and less uncanny looking. Because of that, we got a sequel that did well which helped Sonic Frontiers by extension and an upcoming second sequel that everyone’s eagerly awaiting because we’re in the Year of Shadow. A lot of times when Sega of Japan is hands off from the creation process, Sonic tends to flourish best that way.
@@rayvenkman2087also SEGA is Rewritting History by NOT Adding the Freedom Fighters from SatAM in the Games, & use Hammer Girl(Amy) to Replace Princess Sally in the minds of a Sonic Fan.
actually the 32x was Sega of America
though Sega Japan didn't inform them about the Saturn.
@@conradojavier7547 to be fair that's largely due to them not wanting to deal with headache of a potential lawsuit from some sue-happy wacko. But then again they'd have the rights to those characters if they copyrighted them in the first place.
@@RandomBlackGamer They do own the rights. Just not the Archie characters the dark one created.
Do you know else is suffering? Being a Zoids fan, full stop.
Sure would be nice to get some of those models without paying like 500 USD for them... it's like TOMY saw what BANDAI NAMCO was doing and said "yeah, let's copy that".
Zoids and Medabots fans unite ;-;
I still buy their HMM kits sometimes, but usually on a discount. Mostly i've been picking up a bunch of the original TOMY/Hasbro kits in parts lots
I'm also a Gundam/Digimon fan but i think Kamen Rider was my big eye opener into how bad Bandai is from relegating stuff included in the main show to PBandai up to the very expensive faiz gear csm having such bad quality control that the battery slots were double negative an double positive
Yeah that was pretty bad for the first wave but the second wave it was corrected. I own it and mine has zero problems with it. I guess I got lucky. It’s getting ridiculous making the secondary riders final form a p-Bandai release is so unhealthy for us fans who want to own it and not have to overspend on the after market lol
As an aside, I wish people would also talk more about how incompetent and terrible of a company Hasbro is. They're not (always) outright malicious like Bandai usually, but my god they are the most frustrating company ever when it comes to mismanaging their franchises and undermining their own potential. I'm mainly a fan of their franchises, so I'm exposed to their BS more, but I've definitely been exposed to Bandai's brand of stupidity too just by association.
hasbro definitely feels like its trying its hardest to copy bandai
Transformers Earthrise is easily one of their biggest blunders with the exclusives of key characters in their G1 earthmodes with Thundercracker and Skywarp being one example and their Speedia 900 subline is a real mess in getting figures like Cosmos.
Even Bandai can still remember their properties and did a slightly better job with Super Sentai/MMPR toys than Hasbro who really made it bite the dust.
i can't stand the way they release transformers its the most infuriating thing. they basically dont sell any of their transformers in stores anymore so everything is online. that's okay, ill just subscribe to their channels and find out when stuff releases, easy!. too bad they announce LITERALLY NOTHING through their offical channels. the new TITAN CLASS for this year? it got one three minute video on their channel where they just kinda spin it and go "so, its kinda big". now, it was announced earlier, through their long ass podcasts and live streams where you have to sit through so much just *nothing*. Finding information on hasbro releases is like pulling teeth. they released two multipacks of transformers this year, BOTH CALLED THE "DOOM AND DEATRUCTION" PACK. TRY LOOKING THAT SHIT UP. You basically just have to stalk amazon 24/7 if you want to stay up to date at all with their releases.
Hasbro and Bandai have both had key parts in the overexposure of MMPR in relation to many other parts of Power Rangers. Exactly what Bandai did is debatable... But Hasbro sure were the ones that have continued that mishandling.
New series of the Power Rangers TV series have been a strange mix of basic storylines that appeal to toddlers and a larger emphasis on existing lore no such kid will be aware of. How the hell is a kid going to understand the importance of the Beast Morphers finale if they haven't seen RPM?
almost exactly a year ago, Hasbro totally shut down the New Zealand production crew for Power Rangers.... Even though the series had only recently moved to Netflix where it seemingly performed pretty well.
Cosmic Fury had a grand total of 3 toys released (Megazord, Morpher and Zenith Ranger mask + dagger set), it never even had a chance to justify the Cosmic Fury suits that were deliberately simplified to be easier to make as action figures.
Now the Lightning Collection is also cancelled, I've heard it's due to the lack of a TV show even though it rarely tackled current series (Beast Morphers is 1 Ranger away from team completion in base forms, Dino Fury has 2 figures, Once & Always and Cosmic Fury never got any)
And now that the primary toys and TV show are dead.... *Now* is the time to go all out on the MMPR licensing? Now there's a mobile idle game, a console game, new merch still coming out from other licensees... And now PLAYMATES IS MAKING AN MMPR TOYLINE NEXT YEAR????
I also feel they really missed an opportunity to collect licensing revenue from allowing more Super Sentai series they owned to be distributed, instead there was a massive pause between Shout! Factory's Hurricaneger (March 2019) and Fiveman (September 2022) releases, then there has been radio silence since Dekaranger (February 2023).
these mfers made three mmos, and killed them in beta because they weren't making money. In BETA. They shouldn't be let near anything with an established IP.
lmao for real, pushing mtx in beta and they have the audacity to wonder why people stop playing
God as a Gundam fan I can write a whole-ass essay here but suffice to say, it's very obvious I'd say that the people actually making Gundam products and anime are extraordinarily talented and that the franchise is surviving due to them despite Bandai's best efforts to kill it.
Like, ya got g witch here saving the franchise for like the 6th time, ya got an actual foothold on the newer generation with older fans coming back to the series after IBO season 2's disappointment, people are to this day making SuleMio fanart daily, and Bandai in their infinite wisdom decides that saying them being a couple is "up to interpretation" is a good move.
I guess I can give em that they let the director confirm they're gay married iron-clad about 6 months ago, but geez lmao, and don't get me started on them promoting Seed Freedom Gundam more than them actually trying to release the MOVIE internationally lmfao
The part about Premium Bandai is SPOT ON!
Shitty website with shitty order rules. Fuck them for that.
I'm thinking it's a little better than Botcon's website.
I, as a SRW fan literally just a skeleton under the pool
Feel you man, still no OG3 after all these years, only the cash grab that is 30 and DD
because of licensing issues
@@GiordanDiodato There's no need for the All-star one, really, their OG franchise are much more polished due to no license stuff involve so that can pour that into graphic full force.
It just forgotten ip nowadays. I sure hope the all-star series can have that degree of graphic one day, which can only dream since most cost will be eaten up by licensing topics and animation team will have to make do what left of it, which is why SRW30 is severely inconsistence in quality, some even downright horrible animated ... or even can be called as animation at all.
But really now, it just boiled down to how niche the genre it is, especially the OGs one.
@@GiordanDiodato Not even. They were even pumping out games faster than Banpresto for a time, but it became increasingly clear that the quality's been slipping. The VTX trilogy is ok at best, but with how slapdash SRW30 is, it's become increasingly clear we'll never reach the peaks of the Alpha games or Z/Z2 ever again. Not to mention, it's been almost a decade since the last OG game.
@@TenraioSRW OG3 is the next one to be developed as far as we know and they stated before that they couldn't work on it previously because of the crossover games and COVID.
The lack of digimon cards in my local area is disheartening but the very limited stock of gunpla is even worse
Being a .hack//, Tales of, Ace Combat, Digimon, Soul Calibur, Super Robot Taisen, Ridge Racer, Klonoa, Xenosaga, Little Tail, Time Crisis, Legend of Valkyrie, Gundam and Splatterhouse fan is to live in a eternal pain.
Heres something you didn't bring up. Blue Protocol when it first launched in Japan had a deluge of foreigners interested in trying it out early, fair enough right? Thats rather common especially for games that are gonna get localized WAAAY later. Bandai however did not like this so they took it upon themselves to tunnel vision ban any foreigners they can find and keep focusing on that.
How tunnel visioned were they? While they were focus firing on banning foreigners they had let rampant hacking go unchecked for months on end. People found they could not participate in playing the game because hackers were using cheats that let them kill every mob in the overworlds instantly and were not being banned.
Bandai genuinely would rather let their products burn to the ground from hackers than let foreigners try out the game cause "OH MY GOD DEM FILTHY GAIJINS ARE TOUCHING OUR PURE NIPPON PRODUCT".
and even in japan they didn't do the game any favor, I remember when the game was hyped but now the only thing I barely see about it is the controversy about the dev not updating thing and only adding microtransaction
As a Kamen Rider fan myself i gotta tell you that Bandai was indeed REALLY BAD AND DON'T KNOW HOW TO SELL THINGS and THEY CAN BE THAT SCUMMY in some cases
I still remember that time when Bandai announces a new product called "Zaia Spec" after the show "Kamen Rider Zero one" shown that product in one of their episodes and Bandai labeled that product as a "Premium Bandai"
A lot of people pre-ordered it cuz they thought that it has a Mechanical features like in their previous products
And by the time that the product has been officially released a lot of people became ANGRY at Bandai cuz the "Zaia Spec" was just a HUNK OF PLASTIC GLUED ON AN EAR HOOK AND THAT'S IT
licensing issues
As many have said previously to me, the word "Premium" in P-Bandai literally means limited, and there is no "premium" quality there.
Bandai is the Asian EA.
Thundercats 2011 flopped because Bandai was awful with the merch distribution and one of the seasons the show got cancelled albeit flimsily because it wasn’t selling enough toys according to Cartoon Network. The same Cartoon Network that thought CN Real was a good idea and something the public wanted despite the fact no one asked.
And CN still won't listen to fans. Adult Swim is basically holding them up now.
@@kurisu7885Adult Swim is Practically the Spiritual Successor to CN.
@@kurisu7885at least we got gumball season 7 so we can see how the cliffhanger will resolve , and regular show is coming back
Other than that they’re washed, idk who is asking for a pre school foster’s home or all these adventure times spin offs outside of more Fiona and cake
Member of the Gunpla community here.
Back then when the HG or High Grade version of the Gundam Wing units were released they were all regular releases and we were happy!
...then they announced the upgrades to the Wing Suits and what did Bandai do?
MADE THEM ALL PBANDAI. Man the Wing Zero TV Version was a regular release and yet they made the Sandrock Custom, Heavyarms Custom, Deathscythe Hell and inevitable Altron Gundam they were all PBandai!
And hoo boy getting your hands on them was hell... Till this day I cannot find a Sandrock Custom thats below $50...
Digimon wise... I really wanted the Figure Rise of Imperialdramon Paladin mode but lo and behold he's P-bandai! JUST F-ING GREAT! Oh love the Digimon Rumble Arena music dude, its a great touch!
Speaking of Gundam Wing... They also made the side story Gundams PBandai too and my god getting your hands on them were hell, when in the past the side story machines were just regular releases!
Seriously.I mean, I get one's nostalgic.That's fine.But too much yup now you go too far
A long time ago I had a kit of the Heavyarms Custom Ew version. I wanted to get one again but man, Bandai makes it so hard to give them money.
And I want to build the Zaku II in every grade, but I can't find a Master Grade that isn't a red one.
Don't forget BaMco knows the issue of older kits, especially with the "Red VS Blue Bamdai Namco" rule.
Instead of giving us 2.0 kits for series like Gundam Wing, Turn A, and 00, they'll just give us new paint jobs with old runners from like 2012.
This is especially egregious with Gundam IBO and their well known "Spine Problem" and circular weapons. Whenever a new IBO kit comes out they still use the horrible molds instead of fixing issues with old kits.
Imagine the only good G1 Gundam kit being Dynames, w/ G2 being mid or serviceable
They Made the g Gundam shuffle alliance ms pbandai but death army reguler release whyyy
Figure rise amplified Imperialdramon PM mode is P-Bandai?
Wait. P Bandai makes you pre-order things, so they can ship it to you later on, but can still sell out?
Then what in the hell is the point in getting people to preorder it, if they're just going to restrict the amount of each item being sold, rather than "Oh we have EXACTLY 45,685 orders for this item, therefore, we need to produce EXACTLY 45,685 to meet that market with no overproduction loss."
All 'bout that FOMO and having clickbait website articles about how they sold out their pre-order in an attosecond.
Because that's what will drive busine- oh, wait, nobody can buy it and they make less than they would because of scalpers.
But it makes them look go- oh, wait, everybody hates it and doesn't want to compete with bots set up by scalpers just to get a thing they want at 300% mark up. So they give up and then BN decides to not make any more merch, thus costing them EVEN MORE MONEY.
... What kind of stupidity is this?
Hasbro does this as well with Transformers. I've had to wait for a figure to be restocked after the preorders went out. Like just why?
They want to make sure your money is LOCKED IN first, before they even ship anything out.
@@megamegaO locking in sales isn't what I have a problem with. If anything, I think it's a smart way for them to see how much of an item they need to produce without them needing to worry about loss caused by overproduction.
The problem I do have however, is how a product can still become sold out, even though they're clearly making the product, after the fact they know people want to purchase it. In fact what really bothers me about this particular practice, is that by adding this limited number to production, pretty much gives scalpers an incentive and a source to make money from.
Whereas, if for example, during the sale period, EVERYONE who wanted to buy the item, were guaranteed it, as long as they bought it at that time, then, the scalpers won't even bother, because everyone who wants the item would've already gotten it from the main source, and won't pay x2, x3 the price that scalpers would resell the product for.
tl;dr fuck scalpers, all my homies hate scalpers.
its probably related to manufacturing queue slot. however they shouldve instead let people continue putting orders for possible next batches of reprint for some very hot items. this is how u discourage scalpers as theres no more fomo and everyone gets to secure their copy, and bandai wont have leftover shelfwarmers. they seriously couldnt think past the length of their nose
I think Bandai's issue is favoritism. I have never had trouble getting gunpla even the most obscure of releases. But my friend whos into digimon has to make a sacrafice to the sun god it seems to get anything .
it's even worse if you're a fan of anything that isn't Adventure 01, and even then, good luck. I'm just going to have to sit here and be happy with my one Mugendramon/Machinedramon model kit, all while sitting there and looking at all the Agumon/WarGreymon/Omegamon merch with envy, because I'm never going to get that with my robot dragonsaur.
Unless you're a Dukemon/Gallantmon fan, then boy howdy will you get stuff.
@@BaconMinionSame with me but with Gargomon and a few others
i can't even find some normal releases
The false FOMO shit is everywhere in toys and hobby stuff these days. As a diecast car collector, Mattel is creating a gigantic scalper's secondary market with their sales practices for Hot Wheels and Matchbox; I would not be surprised if they do it just as much with other toy brands.
It’s an absolute cancer and contributes to an even more cancerous scalper market.
Bandai just needs to be on the edge of bankruptcy to finally wake up, No other obvious signs made them do things right.
Bandai pressured Ruby Spears and Capcom to cancel the 90s MegaMan animated series simply because they weren't selling enough figures. The ratings on the actual show were excellent.
The classic “it doesn’t sell merch” so many cartoons get canned for that even tho they get good ratings
I think Japanese customers and consumers should know about this.
Like japanese customers will give a shit since they have no problems with their accessibility .
Well we already do except Bandai itself.
I too have been burned by their decisions with Digimon, but also, their sister series, Tamagotchi. They recently had an interview with a prominent Tamagotchi RUclipsr and there was not a single encouraging thing in that video. They ignore very strong fan demand for specific re-releases, and instead, insist on waiting for anniversaries. They claim to care about their established fanbase but admit they're more interested in "core america" but their strategy for going after "core america" is to just flood the market with remakes of the very dated original tamagotchi that isn't even a faithful remake and is easier to kill thanks to a change in how snacks work, and they changed the way care works so that even tamagotchi veterans won't understand why they're not getting the pet they want. They also offer very short support life for their tamagotchis online connectivity, their most recent one relies on DLC for content but you cannot hold more than one DLC on your device, so it just makes the DLC not very appetizing to me.. they also have a very disgusting nickname for their adult fans, the "kidults", im sure it makes most fans want to wretch, feels very dehumanizing.
There was also pretty much the entire decision with the Tamagotchi anime. They dubbed one season with the most unprofessional voice actors i've ever heard ( coincidentally it also made the anime much funnier than it was probably meant to be ) and then just gave up after that, when this really could have gotten more fans interested if it was broadcast on TV, that's pretty much how Pokemon got it's start outside of Japan, the anime carried it for the first few years. They won't even offer a sub. But they'll still refrence the hell out of the anime in that new video game that is APPLE ARCADE EXCLUSIVE. That's another thing, this new Tamagotchi Connection Remake is coming out but is missing one of it's most hype features, the ability to connect to Tama Town and play games with your v-pet and earn prizes and currency. Their excuse: We have video games now. But nobody can play it unless they buy a fucking Ipad. So again, that's just less exposure for the brand that they claim to want to get in front of "core america", because core america loves exclusive shit.
Lastly, this new coming device has no pause feature. Why? "Because you can't really pause a pet irl", bullshit, it's because Japanese releases don't have a pause button and Bandai always leans into Japanese nostalgia more than the west, even though they want "Core America" and the "kidults" have jobs, and kids have school, a thing virtual pets were FAMOUSLY BANNED FROM because kids took them to school with them, not knowing you could pause them by leaving it at the clock setting screen. Maybe if they just had a normal pause, that wouldn't have happened.
Sorry for that wall of text. But man they've frustrated the shit out of me with Digimon and Tamagotchi especially.
I recently was having a huge nostalgia high for Tamagotchis recently and found out that they were rereleasing the very same model I owned as a kid, and started to get back into the hobby because of it. But was I completely unaware of the company's short comings when it came to their product lines.
While I'm not nearly as offended about the term "kidult" (Anything beats manchild in my opinion.) I am pretty peeved that they basically said that they weren't bringing back Tamatown, a staple that pretty much elevated the connection line. They aren't going to release things like the V4 onward unless it coincides with an anniversary, despite the fact that fans are foaming at the mouth for those reworks and Bandai is just choosing not to give the fans what they want. As well as the removal of arguably one of the most useful and VITAL features is a pretty big let down. The pause feature is what really gets me though, the joy of having a virtual pet is, well, it's not an actual pet. Sure, you can't pause a pet IRL, but isn't that why people buy digital pets in the first place? To have the gratifying experience taking care of a creature that you know deep down is just a small series of pixels?
I like Tamagotchis and the brand, like a lot. I had fond memories of the version I had as a kid, and I preordered the connection rerelease as soon as I could and even bought myself a Gen 1 repro and have been enjoying it since. But I'm already raising an eyebrow with how they're treating it.
Wait, the new tamagotchi doesn't have a pause feature?!
That's so weird. At least Digimon included a pause feature several years ago. I don't get bandai at all
The other issue for the Digimon card game is that it's the only product they overprint...
BT16 begs otherwise
@@RoyalKnightofDestiny Maybe it's regional? I can find plenty in the Carolinas.
"Who better to tell you than an exhausted Digimon fan"
I dunno! Gundam fans might have a word or two for them.
Every toy company seems to have similar problems these days.
Digimon would be far more popular than Pokémon now had Bandai not keep sabotaging it like they’re Vince McMahon when there’s any hot momentum that threatens their darling mega star.
Klonoa would be seeing a new announcement of a new game if they know what they’re doing. What are you doing Bandai?
Thundercats 2011’s cancellation is partly their fault.
The last five years of their Power Rangers tenure.
Involving themselves with people who hates gamers.
The fact Digimon hasn’t become a white hot licence outside of Japan since Cyber Sleuth and Adventure Tri dropped.
Bandai saw the success of Digimon, washed their hands of it and decided "It'll keep itself alive, it's so big now" - then promptly did nothing so all that goodwill from the fanbase dropped off and they were surprised when it fell into a hole. Bandai execs are some of the most simple minded in the business world and it sucks ;-;
nah Digimon stopped being popular in 2002
i dont like bandai but i think saying it could be more popular than pokemon is a little much
Namco doesn’t do a good job at marketing klonoa games and it has been like that even before the merge with Bandai
And let’s not forget how badly pac-man they’re own mascot was treated during the 2010s, failed reboot nobody asked for nor liked then when it flopped it was straight to mobile shovelware, he was treated just as bad as sonic during that decade
Thankfully we got museum + which game is games like both versions of arrangement and pac on roll on modern hardware and the Pac-Man world remake now and they’ve made a survey asking what to do next
AS a toy collector that focuses on SHFiguarts, don’t forget that they make us pay them AGAIN to change ADDRESS!
Minor correction but it's actually Namco Bandai Filmworks (formally knownas Sunsrise) who were the ones who forced the gay aspect of G-Witch to be downplayed, Bandai (or more specifically the branch of Bandai you are talking about) were actually fine with them being gay and produced lots of merchandise openly portraying them as such.
Why even bother approving it and going with it if you're just going to downplay it, though? They knew what was coming.
@@BaconMinion Namco Bandai Filmworks is an anime company that used to be called Sunrise that makes Gundam and had been bought out by Bandai for a while. Despite the re brand it is still run by the same executives that ran Sunrise and is functionally just Sunrise with a different name (I'll just refer to is Sunrise from here on out for simplicity's sake). When G-Witch was being made the main Bandai company didn't object to the writer making the main characters gay and proceeded to make merchandise for them based off the assumption that they would be overtly gay. But Sunrise executives made the decision internally to make it more ambiguous and forced the writer to change some things as (Sunrise had a track record of screwing over their own shows like this even before Bandai bought them).
@@TeamTowers1 Me seeing Accel World not getting a season 2 and keeps sidelined by Love Live
"I couldn't agree more"
@@TeamTowers1Not only had the writer not changed anything, the Blu ray release added in Suletta and Miorine's marriage rings to more shots and had an interview with the director who confirmed that they're married, the "interpretation" statement, done before the confirmation that they're married, was done in the first place because the voice actress of Suletta was censored for saying Suletta and Miorine were married in a magazine interview, the statement was to cover the magazine's ass more than it was to deny the relationship.
Which is weird on Sunrise's part considering that its been established in the first episode of Witch from Mercury that same sex marriages are much more accepted in that universe. Personally, I hated that Sunrise backtracked and stated that Suletta and Miorine weren't an official couple considering that you could see throughout the series that they've grown to genuinely love each other
Bandai didn't promote their product properly in the west
also Bandai, "The West hates Japanese products so we will limit them"
Don't even get started on the Digimon mini figure line, utter dookie for stupid prices. You might as well 3D print the figures and paint them yourself.
My biggest issue is the lack of translating games. People talk about how few Digimon or Gundam games come out yet in reality quite a few do...Just not in English. Outside of the mobile market about 1 game releases like every 5 years maybe 2 if we're lucky but if you were in Japan there's generally 1 extra game between the English ones and those also tend to be the highest quality games. Digimon has luckily been seeing more translations but Gundam still hasn't.
THANK YOU! I'm glad someone's talking about their draconic practises. It's even worse how the studios they contract to make their games take all the heat for the crap they impose on the devs, essentially being used as scapegoats.
It's insane how deep this Bandai rabbit hole goes.... all these IPs deserve to be under a better company
it's because of anime licensing issues sometimes.
I feel like a lot of Bandai's problems stem from a degree of xenophobia. They are a Japan based company with a heavy "Japan first" bias, and as much as they want a slice of the global market their manufacturing capability is very limited and they don't want to lose the footing they have on their own turf just to sell to the rest of the world, so not only do they limit availability through their own p-bandai storefront they also threatened export stores and demand they don't sell gunpla directly overseas so as not to cut into their own market. They say it's to curb scalping, but the end result is they get to vet which American stores get to sell their products with no one allowed to bypass that except HobbyLink(which is more trouble than it'll ever be worth). Basically they want to have their cake and eat it too, and it's just not working. Frankly I'm waiting to see them drop out of the global market altogether, because that seems much more likely than them getting their act together outside of their own country.
As both a Digimon diehard and a Tokusatsu fan, i almost hate to see cool forms/toys in the shows because I know that there's a 90% chance it ends up being p-bandai exclusive. Which is bad enough with Digimon stuff, but the Sentai stuff is exlusive is p-bandai japan, which is hyper-letigious about shunning proxy purchases, so if you want it you have to go through third party websites that always up the price.
You should look up the number of Digimon cards that have erratas due to translation errors. Keep in mind, almost none of them have reprints to fix the issue
Fellow Digimon fan here. I'll touch a bit more on how they are absurdly incompetent when it comes to this particular franchise:
Have you ever heard of the Digimon mobile games? of course you haven't, silly. Because they kept killing them after just 2 years of operation for whatever reason. I loved Digimon Heroes, which was kind of a card/match-3 type of game. It wasn't anything amazing, but the game was fun in it's own right. Still it went EOS after barely 2 years, then they vomited Digimon Links, a pvp focused gacha game with barely anything to do besides the arena mode. It also went down after barely 2 years and then they tried with ReArise, wich was more in line with mobile games at the time and was, overall, very decent, but it also didn't last more then 2 years. All of their games, while kinda decent, were mostly devoid of any actual content besides 1 or 2 game modes and a constant power creep. The games didn't became massive successes over night, so they abandoned them and with each new entry, people were more skeptical about the longevity of the games, therefore not buying shit.
On the other hand you may know YugiOh or Magic, right? 2 very famous TCG. You know what they have in common? A GAME. Well it's not really a game per se, but a virtual arena or something like that, you know... TO PLAY WITHOUT GOING OUT??? You know what the Digimon TCG has? A VIRTUAL TUTORIAL. CAN YOU EXPLAIN ME WHY ONLY JUST A TUTORIAL???? YOU ALREADY HAVE THE PROGRAM UP AND RUNNING, ADD MORE CARDS AND A MATCHMAKING??? HELLO??? COMPETE ON THE MARKET?????????????????
Former ReArise player here, who quit when they rolled out the last gasp money grab that was the change to the PvP arena and started to rerelease old Digimon in a new format specifically for that. It's funny how I stopped playing and then something like 2 months later, I heard the game was shutting down.
Oh, and the whole insane pricing for DIgirubies, to the point where it put so many people off even buying them. I could do, at most, a single 10 pull a week, and that was if I did arena grinding.
A shame, because for a while they were actually stat boosting older Digimon to make them at least decent to use. There was powercreep, but nowhere near as bad as it could have been. It was cool to log in and see that, oh hey, this old Digimon got its stats boosted to make it viable.
@@BaconMinion I'll never forgive them for taking away my beautiful Omedamon. The MedarotxDigimon crossover was peak.
I honesty cried when Digimon Links shut down. I had one of my fav Digimon and now it's gone forever. T0T
Digimon isn't popular since 2001
Bamco delisting mobile games does not sound surprising to me at all, man do I miss Pac-Man monsters sometimes
I'm super upset about them not taking full advantage of Digimon since around 2004. I really want to see a modern big budget Digimon game.
People should send this video to the executive offices and investors of Bandai Namco.
Digumon fan from Brazil here: you guys are lucky. Brazil doesn't even get the products...
us in the digitama hatchery have been complaining about bandai for years. you didn't even touch how they're doing with super sentai or tamagotchi, but man, could they just do better than what they're doing
That is true, those are areas I'm not as familiar with. That's why I didn't cover them. But I absolutely believe you: Bandai really knows how to dissapoint.
The fact that the digimon card game has a huge community inspite of there bull shi yet they still haven't made a card sim erks me
Now imagine being a Dot Hack fan.
I don't have to. I live it every day.
Dot Hack is basically fucked at this rate. The first game of the series is still stuck to the PS2 and trying to get copies of it especially the last volume (Quarantine) will cost over $150+ for a lose copy... And I see no sighs of making a 3rd mainline game of the series.
This video perfectly sums up how bandai treats digimon. Let's also not forget how bamco treated survive guilmon with some people getting codes at launch while others didn't. Or next order being limited physically for whatever reason despite it being easy to get a physical copy of it for the ps4 version. Also the fact that bandai refuses to localize the pendulum 20th despite every comment section I've seen on their social media posts about the dm20th has comments about begging for it.
LGBT 🤢Get help.
Thank you algorithm for throwing this at me! Bandai's comeuppance cannot come any sooner...I am frustrated to no end with how much they keep fumbling with the Tales Of series, to the point that they look like they want to kill it. They sure didn't know what the hell to do after Arise. What followed was a string of mobile game closures and a shoddy mess of a "remaster" for one of the series' most beloved titles (Symphonia). One that frankly seems to get rereleased to heck despite fans constantly begging for ports/remasters of the much older entries and entries that weren't released outside of Japan.
Circling back to the mobile games, ooh I am still so SALTY about what happened to Crestoria and Luminaria. Their stories and characters are so amazingly written, fit to be console titles, but nooooOOOOoooo they had to be relegated to the disgusting gacha format AND NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO FINISH after Bandai wasn't seeing the numbers they wanted. Crestoria got a manga continuation which is going to be the only active Tales Of content after their last mobile game standing (Tales of the Rays) shuts down next month. And even that manga is under frequent pressure, as the artist revealed a while back it's been getting warnings to cease production because there doesn't seem to be much interest in it. Because Bandai didn't, y'know, PROMOTE THE DAMN THING THAT WELL.
TL;DR being a Tales Of fan is also that kind of pain. I HATE Bandai, I hate them so much, I wish the Tales Of series to be ripped out of their hands and given to a company that could handle the IP with a lot more competence.
Every day I wake up and cry that the Tales of IP is in Bandai's hands
Digimon literally would have been Pokemon if it was better handled.
Instead, they got the Activision Crash & Spyro treatment from Bandai where they squander the momentum they’d gain. When Cyber Sleuth did well in the US and UK, that should have been the beginning of a wonderful renaissance that brings the franchise to new heights... And Bandai just let the ball fall out of their court.
nah Digimon basically died after 2002
Every time i see something good for digimon, they fumble it, we should be in a resurgence rn with all the anti pokemon buzz going around
@birdcrossing Remember Yo-Kai Watch? That was doing hot until bad decision making killed its momentum.
@@rayvenkman2087don’t get me started on activision
They’ve treated the devs who brought back crash and spyro to big success like complete trash
They were out here getting 10+ million units, no platformer does that outside of Mario
Also the negligence, even how bad they're managing things at least they seems to care to try for Gundam and Anime properties but somehow not to Digimon, the important franchise they fully owned and loved by fans. Bandai to Digimon is like Capcom to Megaman.
Don’t remind I love both those games
dont be fooled, gundam is also being held up solely by the consumers
Being a Renamon fangirl is pain.
Ah RIP, editing that other comment to include Elden Ring caused your heart to go away. But yeah, I hope more people will speak up about Bandai Namco. It feels like it's the only company who is getting away with all of their BS without ever being reprimanded or put in the spotlight for it. We're always making fun of EA, Blizzard and Bethesda as if Bandai Namco never existed. And as someone on that subreddit pointed out, they will make deals and partner with RUclipsrs, which results in them not even being able to criticize Bandai without losing said partnerships. I would almost describe this as a parasite, where every popular Bandai content creator loses all ability to be upfront and critical in exchange for being invited to test their products early. This then feeds into the entire problem even more and Bandai continues to get away with each and every horrible decision they make. I get more and more sad every time I think about it, and I wonder if there will ever come a time where they would have to atone and improve themselves.
as a gunpla builder i love massive blocky robots and really wanted some Gundam Sentinel kits, but of course the Gundam Mk V is p-bandai and in my country p-bandai costs 50% more, while normal releases for that series get printed maybe every 4 years because, who would’ve guessed it, if you make a 150€ kit about an unknown series and don’t advertise it it doesnt sell
Massive Tales Of fan here, and you nailed it right on the head. I’ve never seen a company so consistently incompetent and still somehow makes money being so incompetent.
To clarify. The Tales series has been going since 1995, and has had annual releases since. Do you know that we here overseas only have *half* of these games? We have all of the “mainline” games, but others, such as Tales Of Innocence, Rebirth, and several others are still Japan only, and have been said previously to not be coming overseas at all? Did you know that in the mainline games, they have optional bosses known as cameo battles, where you can fight characters previously featured in past games in the series, and that some of the games they reference they sometimes have the gall to pull from games that have been Japan only, that anyone not in Japan would be completely mystified on who they are and what their deal is?
For better reference, imagine a world where every Final Fantasy game was Japan only, save for FF7 and FF9. 9 constantly references every game beforehand, so while people in Japan would get all of the winks and nods, everyone else would be totally lost on what this game is even talking about half of the time. Now imagine a company unironically doing just that with their own RPG franchise, and you’re expected to get the references despite locking half of the games away overseas without any means to play them other than fan translations or in some cases outright piracy because they refuse to rerelease these games as well unless it’s a cold day in hell.
Now imagine everything I just mentioned above and then some, because Bamco recently delisted the Tales games that were on PS3, that they *TO THIS DAY* have not rereleased and possibly never will unless serious fan outcry happens, all because they could and no one has the power to stop them. Instead, they’d rather rerelease a game that’s a port of a port of a port from almost 20 years ago and expect you to pay for that and the glitchy mess that it is instead of giving it a full blown ground up remake like it deserved.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt this way about any other company except for Bamco. They need to get their just desserts and it needs to happen soon.
Don't forget their also NAMCO, and they often straight up ignore what the fans want, especially if the fans are ENGLISH DUB and want their game dubbed by the same cast that did the ANIME dub, but they ofen won't even translate the Voices anymore in anything but the most well known IP games now to Save buck and also doom that game to shit sales as casuals (not super fans of a series) in the west often will not pickup a game that has not had its voices dubbed. They aren't a great company toward their western audience at all.
it's because they have to pay a lot to license the anime. that's why
Namco Bandai could have released the Queen’s Blade franchise overseas and maybe even helped out the manga overseas but they never did.
I'm glad you made the video so one of us didn't have to.
Would like to add my additional knowledge on Bandai Namco's incompetence when it comes to Klonoa Phantasy Reverie. (+Katamari)
It's clearly rushed.
Let's rewind to when the first Katamari game was remastered by Monkey Craft, they did a damn good job, only one actual bug with the port that doesn't really detract from the game in any way, and the only grievance I have with it is that there's no option to use the original models for the playable characters, which have been replaced with new ones that don't match the PS2 game's art style.
What does Namco do next? Have this same studio remaster the sequel, We Love Katamari.
Cool, makes sense, they can absolutely get that one done with no issues with the experience they gained from the first job, eas-
_They also have them develop the remasters for BOTH Klonoa games AT THE SAME TIME._
Three big projects at once, all three of which are beloved titles which fans have been itching to have rereleased for literal decades.
And lo and behold, when We Love Katamari Reroll and Phantasy Reverie come out, they _"suspiciously"_ have some of the same issues, strange changes to how the original games functioned, and a noticeable lack of polish for anyone who pays even a little bit of attention.
The "game" part of the games themselves are entirely serviceable, it's just everything surrounding that which is scuffed in the weirdest of ways, cutscenes being wonky as hell in the Klonoa games with how text progresses, Reroll 2 forgetting to update the character designs for cousins returning from the first game, which canonically changed between games, made obvious by the fact their ingame character descriptions directly mention these changes, even though they don't even exist in that version, both games having an annoying unremovable "hold to skip" prompt in the corner ALL cutscenes, consistent framerate issues, misguided changes to the UI in Reroll 2, especially in the hub world, and finally, half assed added content that that is clearly undercooked, hats for the Klonoa games, while also removing the added Mirror Mode challenge levels from Wii version, and all the Royal Reverie levels in Reroll 2, that don't even add any stars or planets to the cosmos when beaten like every other level (the main catharsis of these games being when you go to the Cosmos Viewer and gaze upon your achievements floating in the sky), and also coincides with the fact they forgot to update the design of the young King, whom you play as in this mode, to match the new art style, leading him looking out of place in all of the promotional material that puts him side by side with the Prince and cousins, he's literally using the old art style.
Damn I had no idea, thank you for sharing! Its nuts to me how many more stories I've heard sense putting out this video. Bandai really knows how to screw up!
bad take. just bad take.
Not to mention, they hardly bothered to market these games in the west pre-release. Literally the only trailer that they made for Phantasy Reverie Series before its release in the States was the announcement trailer. After that, the game had to depend on the fans to spread the word so it would be profitable, which, while thankfully successful, could have run the risk of making the fanbase look bad if they came off as too pushy.
And then the remaster itself is bad. Just a pitiful case overall.
@@theceoofbasedandlitswagger2456 klonoa never had good marketing in the west, even before the merge happened with bandai
@@lemon5000-tj6nv Lest we forget when Namco dropped the U.S. version of Empire of Dreams on 9/11.💀
Problem is that, Bandai don't give a shit.
Love it or hate it, they have way too many insanely profitable IPs, and they can keep doing this disgusting tactics for the next 20, 30 years and never face any real consequence.
Artificial scarcity doesn't help their reputation, but it sure as hell help their sales. And that's all they care about.
Source: Living in a SEA country where hot P-Bandai item sells out in less than 1 second, scooped by bots deployed by scalpers.
Imagine where Digimon would be right now if its full potential wasn't being held back by Bandai...
Bandai dodging bullets like Neo even after yearly putting out of the shittiest Arena Fighters and holding a monopoly on all Anime IP's
As a Gunpla fan, I cannot put into words how much I sympathize with your pain.
At least my PBandai-exclusive green Marasai looks good on my shelf.
I’m a Tales of fan and I was heart broken when Crestoria shut down and I’m thriving for Tales even waiting for collabs
I just want the old Digimon games without paying an arm and a leg.
I haven't built a Gunpla in 2 years purely because I'm sick of Bandais bs.
I've instead rediscovered my love for Lego, granted Lego is far more expensive than Gunpla but at least the company fucking listens to their fans.
Also I dropped Tekken 8 as soon as they put in that godawful shop.
Haven't touched the game since.
Dude. You must not be aware of the gift with purchase controversy Lego has from a modern remake of a classic set to making the first new official Bionicle set since G2's premature cancellation.
Lego fans also has problems with how license heavy the company has gotten and for a long time, you would have been lucky to get a Lego Space homage set.
As a digimon fan who has basically given up until bandai sell the IP to another company (very doubtful though), this was so healing to listen to that fuckass company get shit on 😭💜
You want to know something FUN about Bandai's treatment of Kamen Rider Gotchard?
You know how there is MORE than one rider, right? with hundreds of cards that need to be specially paired with each other to get the forms you want?
You also know how the secondaries just have addons to their already existing drivers to make new forms? One even just being a reskin of an already existing device?
CAN YOU GUESS WHAT BANDAI DID?
THEY MADE THE MAIN SECONDARY RIDER A P-BANDAI EXCLUSIVE.
THIS ISN'T EVEN AN UNCOMMON THING.
p-bandai the most icky word 😂 nobody likes p-bandai
Yk what's even better? They're almost definitely gonna re-release the Alchemis Driver with Kamen Rider Windsl's sounds for an even higher price
Digimon fan here, I was there when the X2 devices were coming out and folks were SCRAMBLING to make heads or tails of the messed-up rosters. We were hoping against hope that it wasn't ALL of the X2 models that had their rosters swapped--they were.
This one hurts me a lot because I *really* wanted the X3 models to come out in the US--one of the versions of the X3 has Justimon:X, and Justimon was one of my favorites. Yeah, that ain't happening now. And getting new Digivices has been a pain ever since; even in Japan, they're sold on a preorder-only basis. If you wanted one of the Digital Monster Color pets or one of the Digital Monster Pendulum color devices, you're already too late.
Seriously.Not a single game or spin off game digimon 😢😢😢
There is Digimon games
didn't we get Survive a while back?
3:26 If you think this is bad, the Japanese site sells shirts tokusatsu characters wore for exactly one episode. Post-redemption Gentoku Himuro (aka Kamen Rider Rogue) from Kamen Rider Build was notorious for being a vehicle for these.
Between GunEvo's shut down and Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash's awful quality, it's very apparent that Bamco stopped caring as long as they rake in the dough.
Just want to let everyone know, that Gundam have a crossover with Call of Duty, yeah, I don't know wtf going on in the head of Bandai Executives.
As a Tales of Fan and Digimon fan I learned pretty quickly, Bandai don't cares, in recent years it seems that very few things matter to the company after sadly being the owner of so many brands. I've been fantasizing myself for a long time with making this video , glad someone did. XD I even say myself that being a Digimon fan is loving pain, I swear...especially Tamers, and of the best Digimon ever, no question, Impmon/Beelzemon. I own a bracelet and I have several Digimons, which I can use to fight with absolutely no one in tournaments where there is no one, battles where there is no one but me, the idea has so much potential. Digimon has everything to be more entertaining than Pokémon, except talented people handling the distribution of the products.... etc.Frankly, a long series could be made of all the brands that Bandai mishandles.
Digimon could easily be the Jim Crockett Promotions to Pokemon's WWF. Home to absolute brilliance.
Long time Gundam boy here, I feel your pain but I learned to just give up and not play Bandai's dumb games. It's been going on for 20 odd years at least. I don't know what its gunna take for Bandai to stop fucking around and embrace the fans that LIKE THE STUFF THEY. God it's an abusive relationship.
I wish I had your resolve and at least told myself a year ago to not get into P-Bandai exclusives but welp, here I am down the rabbit hole and it gives me soo much stress that I don't need in my life.
I hate Bandai for forgetting about Digimon & Klonoa!
And Harada wanted this compamy to get involved in the publishing of Guilty Gear Strive LMAO
wait really? Oh that jokester, hahah!
People, please do not make the mistake of thinking Namco has anything to do with Bandai.
Namco is a Japanese gaming company that has historically made many of the most popular games of all time, and pioneered new technology in the gaming industry for decades.
Sadly, Namco had to make a merge deal in order to stay alive - in this case, with Bandai. Think of Bandai as a tumor on Namco's shoulder. Namco remains a competent company on their own.
I'm here because Bandai Namco has not dubbed the rest of the Tamagotchi anime series in English.
i only managed to find a physical copy of the klonoa collection AT A CON FOR A JACKED-UP PRICE. and then they insist that if you wanna get a new klonoa game you have to buy the hard-to-find collection that we only ever advertised in a nintendo direct ;-)
i genuinely hope this company gets mega-sued for their practices.
The Bandai Namco NUI website has World Shopping partnership, but their products are still region restricted, so I can't get whatever upcoming Japan-exclusive Tamagotchi merch firsthand, and we aren't planning on returning to Japan. How frustrating! Also, I don't really trust second-hand preorders.
Compared back to earlier decades, when Tamagotchi were much more popular than nowadays, there was merch for most of the characters at that time. Now, newer debutants barely even get a single plush. (Even my favourite character barely got merch of himself, but I got what I can.)
Seeing two of the newest characters recieve plushies as part of a Japan-exclusive Sanrio crossover plush series, I thought I could snag them, but the only problem is that I don't live in Japan. The website that the preorders were listed in fooled me into thinking they were available to ship overseas, but a disclaimer says otherwise.
Being a very recently established Tamagotchi interest person, I'll leave other opinions regarding older media to more experienced fans.
Imma classic Namco fan, from Pac-man, Xevious and all of the other little obscure oddities. I'm in a discord server and we all basically admit that the Namco-Bandai merger is probably one of the worst things ever to happen to Namco. You essentially notice that almost all of their original IPs get culled off with a few exceptions such as Tekken, Ace Combat, and the Tails series.
Pac-Man borderlines getting the Mickey Mouse treatment where he's the FACE of the company but ever rarely gives big stuff to em, just smaller titles. Pac-Man 99 got murked after barley a year on the market and I'm not gonna be surprised if this new battle royale coming out does too. This after the GIANT fiasco that was the ghostly adventures reboot and all the wacky bullcrap and mismanagement they did with that series. There's a reason why we want to forget about that period.
My last gripe is the MEDIOCRE anime games that they all just seem to publish nowadays. It is essentially a giant red flag if Bandai-Namco is publishing your favorite shonen jump series' game, cause all what you gonna get is a undercooked Arena fighter thats gonna die in 3 months. The only exception to the rule is Dragon Ball but even I will admit that they rarley ever are excellent just good but you can tell that they at least give some damn about it. I just find it frustrating because your Dragon Ball and Sega's Fist of the Northstar games show that you can make quality anime titles. It just feels like for every good game Namco can get it out using their Original IP's, you get 4 more that are mismanaged, or a low-effort rushed anime game.
Bamco’s management of Pac-man during the 2010s was so bad, started off pretty good with party, Pac-Man tilt on 3ds and CE DX, then after they made a flopped reboot nobody asked for and then mobile shovelware
Thankfully we at least have the Pac-Man world remake and museum + which gave us games like pac n roll onto modern hardware
I make alot of friend through digimon community around my area, not only because we all love digimon, also because we all hate Bandai the way they sell digimon stuff... 😂
THANK YOU!!! MY GOD!!!
As a Digimon fan that started with the DM20, I was there to see all of the shit unfold, and that's not even mentioning the constant shutdown of Digimon mobile games.
But the DM20 was such a great start for what should've been the rebirth of Digimon. The Digimon X1 really solidified Digimon for me. I was waiting on the X3 because I really wanted to get Jesmon X but with the X2 fumbling I knew we were cooked.
Then came the Vital Bracelet. I also ended doing the $39 preorder for the white VB. I wanted it so bad I got the app way before then using the free Pulsemon to mess around. Faith was restored for me with the VB.
So then the VB BE dropped and fomo hit me despite the red flags like the Dims not being able to make use of any of the new features of the BE and Dim Digimon *literally* being weaker on top of that. But I still enjoyed the device and the BE Memories they released for it.
And may every Digimon fan say in unison: "F*ck the Arena App!"
Because that solidifies everything this video talks about. First of all, they knowingly released an inferior app and I thank God nothing fatal have happened to my Digimon. And second, instead of actually fixing the app, they left it to rot. It's impressive that the app actually is still in service.
I'm just waiting for the moment that Bandai truly redeems themselves overseas with Digimon.
My most recenr annoyance with Bandai is how the HG Huckebein Boxer went up on P-Bandai after their US site was down for about a week and it immediately sold out before I realized their site was back up.
That is what's happened when companies let boomers be leaders.
P Bandai has gotten absolutely atrocious over the past few years. I was fine with how the service was handled initially, being used only for items that were using an existing retail mold as a base and making some minor changes to give a new design, one that won't appeal to the masses as a whole and is more niche than the retail release version. Nowadays, P Bandai is being used to release almost everything, regardless of whether or not the mold being used is an existing one or brand new, or if the appeal would be niche or not. Back in 2014, it made sense for Bandai to release the MG Exia Repair II as a P Bandai release. The design is not very different in general from the regular MG Exia, which you can find at any retail store that sells gunpla. Now in 2024, P Bandai just released the Robot Damashii Calibarn Gundam, the final mobile suit that the protagonist uses in The Witch from Mercury. This is an action figure of a lead character. It is not a slight color variation of it, it is the default version of a LEAD CHARACTER. There was no reason at all to put this as a P Bandai release.
Additionally, since this video mostly talked about Digimon, let's bring it back around and talk about their latest failure in the action figure department, the Digivolving Spirits line. Bandai really pushed this line as being the next big thing, but then very quickly dropped it when it wasn't meeting their expectations. My guess is because most adult digimon fans would probably want a more accurate representation of the characters over one that transforms and has all that kibble. But this line promised so much that we just haven't gotten elsewhere, and won't get ever again, since several figures just got canceled when the line got canned.