Talk:Ring Suzune/@comment-24.72.8.103-20180904183249/@comment-53539-20180906213415

^This is not a presumption. If Galaco Neo had been bought by everyone who wanted "to save Galaco" in the west, I think she'd have a English vocal by now. Reality is sadly only a small % went on to buy her in the overseas sector.

ITs not even a joke either.

For every fan who would buy an update to Miriam, sadly there are likely several more who want it but won't buy it. Thats without considering the Pocaloid users who download because so long as there is a "free" version they'll refuse to buy the real one. In every fandom where purchase of the interest was required I've ever been in, this is a dominate problem, except the oddities like Beyblade... Since most were fans of the TV show and not the toys so watched the show not buy the toys and therefore there wasn't so much of a problem in terms of the TV situation. They never sold every episode on DVD so... The fans never had the chance to buy the full series in English at least.

I've seen it though in the One Piece fandom where fans contributed nothing back to their interest and its not a joke how often you find fans who've never bought a issue of the manga...DVD... Figurine, etc. There was a survey done at one OP site a number of years ago when I was a reglar and about a quater never spent a penny back into One Piece, Oda was earning enough anyway from it without them... But 25% of all fans is still a lot in one community. And the % was thought of greater outside the community. I can't link to this as the topics likely long dead, we're talking about 2006-2008 here. But it is not a shocker at all to see fans asking for something they won't buy. They *just* want it to exist.