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Originally Posted by Ryuou
Not everything available online has to cost money. Online needs to become the new TV, and it'll be able to broadcast to the world unlike TV stations in Japan. They probably won't disappear completely but they'll become practically obsolete. By providing for the reasons behind the existence of fansubs, you can just sit there and scratch your head while laughing at the people who still go about creating and viewing fansubs.
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TV programming
isn't free. It's paid for by advertising and radio-and-TV licences.
Online distribution, that is making your PC your next-gen TV, wants to be free. If it isn't, your consumer will go elsewhere. If it carries advertisements, your viewer can install ad blockers. And also, because of the intense competition in online advertising, most websites don't make much money from ads. You can look at Facebook to see the predicament.
Let's face it: Google is about the only web portal today that makes good money out of advertising. Everyone else is left with the crumbs.
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sorry but the game industry isn't that simple. Blizzard has always made quality products, they patch WoW every 3-4months that doesn't include constant tweaking.
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I'd beg differ.
But, of course, we're all entitled to our own subjective opinions about Blizzard's "great service".
Look, tell me how much the hardware costs, and then you'd see why a typical MMORPG doesn't even need one million subscribers to be profitable. For many smaller ones, even a relatively small base of 100,000 monthly subscribers might suffice.
Can anime studios count on such locked-in loyalty? Perhaps yes, perhaps not. No one has tried yet, so who can say for sure?