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Originally Posted by qz33
I dunno Jopp I could be interested in a 1/8 Hugo... after the first 38 characters are released in the line.
Not offering this, Dee-Jay or Sakura in 1/4 is poor form to customers of the 1/4 line as they have all been requested since the line began.
If the 1/4 line can't sustain pieces like completing the last 3 of the New Challengers from Street Fighter's soul or releasing fitting companion pieces for characters already made then what further purpose can 1/4 serve? Is the future of the scale to be relegated to incompleteness and haphazard releases like Shadaloo Cammy?
Is it to be left to the secondary market as even the Mixed Media revisits have been all but officially cancelled?
Current customers aren't going to move to a different scale by sticks but with carrots. Offering highly regarded niche characters in a scale unused by PCS for the past 10 years isn't an incentive. I haven't bought any of the last 1/4 pieces because I doubt PCS's commitment to 1/4 lines. So far my decision to hold off on Poison for Hugo is looking like a good one.
Hugo isn't a line starter. He's a completing piece of the bigger 1/4 puzzle.
Even if it's just the same sculpt differing only in 1/8 and 1/4 details the majority of customers would likely find this a perfectly acceptable use of the same sculpt.
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While I agree with nearly everything you said, I will say that I don't think it's poor form if the company thinks they'd lose money making those characters. I can't blame them for that. And I wouldn't advise them to make characters that won't turn a profit. That wouldn't be good for PCS or its customers (us).
What I do feel is somewhat poor form is the way this Hugo was more or less teased as a companion to their recently preordered Posion.
I'm paraphrasing here, I don't have the old newsletter. It was something to the effect of....
"Hot of the heels of our New Poison statue we have Hugo!" Bad paraphrase, but more or less it sounded like a companion piece.
Then I asked Jerry "how a
1/4 Hugo had suddenly became a possibility when it was previously said it couldn't be done".
To that he replied.
"I found a way to make it work".
Okay, so I was probably reading into that, that he'd found a way to make a 1/4 Hugo work. But I guess that just meant making it work in a different scale.
Idk, whatever. At least I have my Rambo and Chun Li.
