>>6496095Still arguing with flawed logic, I see.
And for the record, I never said what you said is definitely wrong, just that we don't know that it's definitely true.
First of all, Howling Meteor isn't about to be released (i.e. the production isn't quite as far along) so why bother trying to drum up hype for it? Besides, people have problems with it in multiple communities, and that isn't to say it won't sell but that if they tried fake-cancel it, they'd likely lose more of the fickle collectors.
And you're right that they risk losing pre-orders, but when you're saying your product is now cancelled, do pre-orders matter? Maybe, but you're also drumming up hype with your sob story, and suddenly rallying up people around your product because they didn't know they wanted it before or it wasn't a priority for them before or whatever.
The point is that you cannot say for certain that a sob story fake cancellation to drum up attention for this figure would make it sell worse than if they didn't do that. We don't have the data to say. MakeToys, however, does.
Even one of the retailers, The Chosen Prime, suggested there's more to this story than they were letting on with a post on TFW.
Also, you clearly don't don't know what "for all we know" is. The way you reworded it makes no sense. The phrase "for all we know" is basically equivalent to "as far as we know", that being "given what we know, this is a possibility/this is a plausible scenario".
Besides, here's YOUR scenario:
>design the whole thing>pay for several prototypes>pay for several versions of the molds>pay for the testshots>pay for the box art>pay for the boxes>pay for a first run of final products [they produced more than were available at TFcon; this was confirmed]>THEN do some market research and realise it won't sell enoughThat's not how it works either. So are you really suggesting your story is any more plausible? The point is, both are possible, but none of us know the whole story for sure.
