It's wasted energy.
All these people that are even "irritated" about the XM vs SS debate are, more or less, cheerleaders of one or the other company, even if they'll come here and pretend they're neutral.
It took, what, months to have people here understand that in the licensed areas XM's statues cost averages at 500-550$? Clearly most people here have no idea or familiarity with the notion of "being international" and out of the favored area, hence the cries. Just to mention an extremely simple notion that seemed incredibly hard to explain, which makes me think that people just refuse to understand it so they can use it like an excuse when debating about XM.
Leplant was talking about design and people told him to compare Phoenix to WW?
Are we sure that WW stepping on a greek themed rock while holding her weapons is a great or innovative design?
It's an average and standard design. That the final sculpt and prototype paint app are awesome and make WW a great piece, it's a given. But to come here and take her as an example of great/innovative design is prejudice.
Which leads to my other point, prejudice. Most of the posts here are all about that, easy.
It's not like Dechirico desn't know how much Phoenix retailed at, yet here she is stating that it retailed at 760$ - which is not true at all since XM sells with 10% discount to members and all retailers have some sort of discount (and some of them even at 15%, like SimplyToys). This takes the price down in the 650-680$ range.
Still, I repeat, this applies in those areas where XM is supposed to sell to. Areas in which most people here are NOT.
It's prejudice. It's the same when people pretend that everything Sideshow puts out is s**t, it's the same when people pretend that XM's pieces cost 1000$ for real, it's the same when people pretend that Sideshow is giving away their pieces at 350-400$ range while the truth is that the average price point is more on the 450$ right now and any of their bigger pieces is randomly priced from 600 to 900$. Same people who now brought up Wonder Woman forgetting how THEY, in first place, derailed the Wonder Woman thread, in the Sideshow area, with their XM talk, when nobody even mentioned XM. Talk about act like drama queens.
But most of the people here will just pretend that you're comparing different price points just because they have no other arguments, instead of just admit that if Sideshow came out with their own kickass Phoenix for 700$ and 1000ES, it would be sold out by now and they would be praising what an incredible move Sideshow did.
Or again, enjoy your Iron Man maquettes at 480$+shipping with flawed paint, random poses and silly double bases. Maybe THIS could be a better comparison, I guess
I suppose that what bothers me the most is how people act without even caring to read other users' posts, or so it seems. Leplant came here saying he didn't want an XM vs SS argument just for the sake of it but 'cause he's sure SS still has a lot to give, and the usual ones feel compelled to answer with the usual two answers and to state over and over again that they're tired of the argument.
If you're tired of the argument, don't post. Avoid the thread. You only look butthurt by dropping in the thread without even caring to read and less than ever caring to take the time to write a proper reply that doesn't involve false victimism.
