>Make a new figure/mokit/game line >Shit sells well >Release the next batch as limited version to increase profit >People stop buying >Thinking people are tired of the new line and completely scrap the whole thing >Repeat

"To love Digimon is to love pain." I feel that on a personal level

Meanwhile the Gundam fanbase having to deal with real-life DLCs for Gunpla for years and hoping every release isn't p-bandai

Bandai didn't promote their product properly in the west also Bandai, "The West hates Japanese products so we will limit them"

Bandai the second a live service game doesn’t make a bajillion dollars in the first week: “death”

Every Elden Ring player knows the horror of BanDai Namco. >Start game. >FLASHBANG

Bandai is the Asian EA.

As a Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, and Ultraman fan I know all too well the scumminess of Bandai and their obsession with Pbandai.

Now I understand why AliExpress is absolutely filled with fake Onepiece cards...

Being a .hack//, Tales of, Ace Combat, Digimon, Soul Calibur, Super Robot Taisen, Ridge Racer, Klonoa, Xenosaga, Little Tail, Time Crisis, Legend of Valkyrie, Gundam and Splatterhouse fan is to live in a eternal pain.

Heres something you didn't bring up. Blue Protocol when it first launched in Japan had a deluge of foreigners interested in trying it out early, fair enough right? Thats rather common especially for games that are gonna get localized WAAAY later. Bandai however did not like this so they took it upon themselves to tunnel vision ban any foreigners they can find and keep focusing on that. How tunnel visioned were they? While they were focus firing on banning foreigners they had let rampant hacking go unchecked for months on end. People found they could not participate in playing the game because hackers were using cheats that let them kill every mob in the overworlds instantly and were not being banned. Bandai genuinely would rather let their products burn to the ground from hackers than let foreigners try out the game cause "OH MY GOD DEM FILTHY GAIJINS ARE TOUCHING OUR PURE NIPPON PRODUCT".

I feel like a lot of Bandai's problems stem from a degree of xenophobia. They are a Japan based company with a heavy "Japan first" bias, and as much as they want a slice of the global market their manufacturing capability is very limited and they don't want to lose the footing they have on their own turf just to sell to the rest of the world, so not only do they limit availability through their own p-bandai storefront they also threatened export stores and demand they don't sell gunpla directly overseas so as not to cut into their own market. They say it's to curb scalping, but the end result is they get to vet which American stores get to sell their products with no one allowed to bypass that except HobbyLink(which is more trouble than it'll ever be worth). Basically they want to have their cake and eat it too, and it's just not working. Frankly I'm waiting to see them drop out of the global market altogether, because that seems much more likely than them getting their act together outside of their own country.

Being a SoulCalibur fan is suffering thanks to Bandai Namco’s stupidity

Sadly a lot of Japanese companies are tone deaf. They will go backwards instead of going forward. SEGA of Japan instantly comes to mind. At 1 point they were ruling the console market. But shot themselves in the foot by pumping out expesive add-ons like the SEGA CD with little to no marketing or clarification on what it was. And they went against their American branch's advise to not roll out the Saturn so soon because the Genesis was still selling well. They always found a way to overextend themselves. And now they're nothing more than a 3rd party game publisher.

Imagine where Digimon would be right now if its full potential wasn't being held back by Bandai...

so it's fucking Bandais fault metroid prime was delayed!

these mfers made three mmos, and killed them in beta because they weren't making money. In BETA. They shouldn't be let near anything with an established IP.

I work in a comic store in Canada, and we have to fight and struggle to even get Bandai products in stock! They ignore you, lie to you about availability, refuse service after attempting to place orders... Just a terrible company.

AS a toy collector that focuses on SHFiguarts, don’t forget that they make us pay them AGAIN to change ADDRESS!

As a gunpla builder in Australia, I really dont like bandai's obsession with p-bandai. P-bandai kits are really annoying to get over here (usually costing about double to triple the price as you have to use a proxy service) and the recent delegation of wfm stuff to peeb makes me so danm sad

The part about Premium Bandai is SPOT ON! Shitty website with shitty order rules. Fuck them for that.

The false FOMO shit is everywhere in toys and hobby stuff these days. As a diecast car collector, Mattel is creating a gigantic scalper's secondary market with their sales practices for Hot Wheels and Matchbox; I would not be surprised if they do it just as much with other toy brands.

Even Gundam fans and Toku fans have issues with them, like their two biggest money making franchises and they are still fumbling

Ace Combat and Tales fans: "You are telling me that... we are the lucky ones compared to other Bandai Namco franchises???"

We now know why Tomino was furious when he learned Bandai bought Sunrise.

Wait. P Bandai makes you pre-order things, so they can ship it to you later on, but can still sell out? Then what in the hell is the point in getting people to preorder it, if they're just going to restrict the amount of each item being sold, rather than "Oh we have EXACTLY 45,685 orders for this item, therefore, we need to produce EXACTLY 45,685 to meet that market with no overproduction loss."

I think Bandai's issue is favoritism. I have never had trouble getting gunpla even the most obscure of releases. But my friend whos into digimon has to make a sacrafice to the sun god it seems to get anything .

As an aside, I wish people would also talk more about how incompetent and terrible of a company Hasbro is. They're not (always) outright malicious like Bandai usually, but my god they are the most frustrating company ever when it comes to mismanaging their franchises and undermining their own potential. I'm mainly a fan of their franchises, so I'm exposed to their BS more, but I've definitely been exposed to Bandai's brand of stupidity too just by association.

Imagine being a fan of Bandai properties in Australia. Despite Australia being closer to Japan than the United States and being close to South East Asian countries that have Premium Bandai available (and have had a brief period in the early 2000s where we got a very popular Japanese toyline and anime series known as Crush Gear localised and sold while it was never shown in the United States), we have *no* chance to get PreBan items such as various Masked Rider items and Gundam models, and even... yes, the PreBan exclusive Crush Gear revival sets. As a fan of the incredibly underrated 90s series After War Gundam X, this means I'm unable to get the now expensive model kit of the Daughtress, which was the first release of this *MASS PRODUCTION* Mobile Suit meant for *ARMY BUILDING.* It is *SO* counter-intuitive to sell that Mobile Suit as a limited run exclusive model.

Being a Tales and a Digimon fan is hell. ALL I WANT IS FOR THE JAPANESE GAMES TO BE LOCALISED STOP REMAKING SYMPHONIA

I remembered when Bandai was the one who used to make the Yu-Gi-Oh card game before it got owned by Konami. The Bandai version barely had anything to do with the manga or anime, and was only ever sold in cardass machines despite how the anime and manga depicts the cards being sold in booster packs, and of course, no one was buying the cards due to lack of interest and how unfaithful it all was.

As a Kamen Rider fan myself i gotta tell you that Bandai was indeed REALLY BAD AND DON'T KNOW HOW TO SELL THINGS and THEY CAN BE THAT SCUMMY in some cases I still remember that time when Bandai announces a new product called "Zaia Spec" after the show "Kamen Rider Zero one" shown that product in one of their episodes and Bandai labeled that product as a "Premium Bandai" A lot of people pre-ordered it cuz they thought that it has a Mechanical features like in their previous products And by the time that the product has been officially released a lot of people became ANGRY at Bandai cuz the "Zaia Spec" was just a HUNK OF PLASTIC GLUED ON AN EAR HOOK AND THAT'S IT

Speaking as a tokusatsu, srw, mecha, magical girl fan and digimon fan, yeah this sums up so much of my frustrations with bandai

The lack of digimon cards in my local area is disheartening but the very limited stock of gunpla is even worse

Just want to let everyone know, that Gundam have a crossover with Call of Duty, yeah, I don't know wtf going on in the head of Bandai Executives.

I'm also a Gundam/Digimon fan but i think Kamen Rider was my big eye opener into how bad Bandai is from relegating stuff included in the main show to PBandai up to the very expensive faiz gear csm having such bad quality control that the battery slots were double negative an double positive

Bandai pressured Ruby Spears and Capcom to cancel the 90s MegaMan animated series simply because they weren't selling enough figures. The ratings on the actual show were excellent.

4:13 Coming from someone who’s a Gundam fan, one of the biggest reasons why I got into Gunpla is because of its accessibility to their huge catalogue of kits. Almost everything was available if you looked in the right places. Now, in addition to the Gunpla drought we’ve had for years, a large chunk of new releases are PBandai, which practically neuters the appeal of the hobby. Edit: I’d also like to add that PBandai was fine when it was just recolors and variants, and it’s recently become a problem when new molds/entirely new kits were being sent there. It’s especially infuriating/annoying when a kit based on a character or suit that should have been regular release based on their popularity, is a limited release.

Do you know else is suffering? Being a Zoids fan, full stop. Sure would be nice to get some of those models without paying like 500 USD for them... it's like TOMY saw what BANDAI NAMCO was doing and said "yeah, let's copy that".

My biggest issue is the lack of translating games. People talk about how few Digimon or Gundam games come out yet in reality quite a few do...Just not in English. Outside of the mobile market about 1 game releases like every 5 years maybe 2 if we're lucky but if you were in Japan there's generally 1 extra game between the English ones and those also tend to be the highest quality games. Digimon has luckily been seeing more translations but Gundam still hasn't.

I think Japanese customers and consumers should know about this.

I too have been burned by their decisions with Digimon, but also, their sister series, Tamagotchi. They recently had an interview with a prominent Tamagotchi KZfaqr and there was not a single encouraging thing in that video. They ignore very strong fan demand for specific re-releases, and instead, insist on waiting for anniversaries. They claim to care about their established fanbase but admit they're more interested in "core america" but their strategy for going after "core america" is to just flood the market with remakes of the very dated original tamagotchi that isn't even a faithful remake and is easier to kill thanks to a change in how snacks work, and they changed the way care works so that even tamagotchi veterans won't understand why they're not getting the pet they want. They also offer very short support life for their tamagotchis online connectivity, their most recent one relies on DLC for content but you cannot hold more than one DLC on your device, so it just makes the DLC not very appetizing to me.. they also have a very disgusting nickname for their adult fans, the "kidults", im sure it makes most fans want to wretch, feels very dehumanizing. There was also pretty much the entire decision with the Tamagotchi anime. They dubbed one season with the most unprofessional voice actors i've ever heard ( coincidentally it also made the anime much funnier than it was probably meant to be ) and then just gave up after that, when this really could have gotten more fans interested if it was broadcast on TV, that's pretty much how Pokemon got it's start outside of Japan, the anime carried it for the first few years. They won't even offer a sub. But they'll still refrence the hell out of the anime in that new video game that is APPLE ARCADE EXCLUSIVE. That's another thing, this new Tamagotchi Connection Remake is coming out but is missing one of it's most hype features, the ability to connect to Tama Town and play games with your v-pet and earn prizes and currency. Their excuse: We have video games now. But nobody can play it unless they buy a fucking Ipad. So again, that's just less exposure for the brand that they claim to want to get in front of "core america", because core america loves exclusive shit. Lastly, this new coming device has no pause feature. Why? "Because you can't really pause a pet irl", bullshit, it's because Japanese releases don't have a pause button and Bandai always leans into Japanese nostalgia more than the west, even though they want "Core America" and the "kidults" have jobs, and kids have school, a thing virtual pets were FAMOUSLY BANNED FROM because kids took them to school with them, not knowing you could pause them by leaving it at the clock setting screen. Maybe if they just had a normal pause, that wouldn't have happened. Sorry for that wall of text. But man they've frustrated the shit out of me with Digimon and Tamagotchi especially.

I, as a SRW fan literally just a skeleton under the pool

The fact that the digimon card game has a huge community inspite of there bull shi yet they still haven't made a card sim erks me

You have to remember one key thing here. Bandai is an OLD SCHOOL toy company. A JAPANESE OLD SCHOOL toy company. Which means that they are functioning off an old idea how to sell things. So they instead just try to maximize profit by printing to demand. They don't like doing regular retail releases because they're risky, and they dislike investing more than they have to. It's just how they are. They're a very old company. Takara Tomy is the same way. And the reason they don't produce more product for TCG's (I own a cardshop) is likely because Dragonball Super (the original game) floundered. Localization is expensive, and they don't want to bother with it. They produce in Japan because it's just easier to do. My customers are always irritated that we don't have any One Piece, so we try to ration it out and we only sell at MSRP - but people just want to buy for resell so they'll do anything they can to buy as much as possible. Their backend website for us is also machine translated if that says anything lol!

Member of the Gunpla community here. Back then when the HG or High Grade version of the Gundam Wing units were released they were all regular releases and we were happy! ...then they announced the upgrades to the Wing Suits and what did Bandai do? MADE THEM ALL PBANDAI. Man the Wing Zero TV Version was a regular release and yet they made the Sandrock Custom, Heavyarms Custom, Deathscythe Hell and inevitable Altron Gundam they were all PBandai! And hoo boy getting your hands on them was hell... Till this day I cannot find a Sandrock Custom thats below $50... Digimon wise... I really wanted the Figure Rise of Imperialdramon Paladin mode but lo and behold he's P-bandai! JUST F-ING GREAT! Oh love the Digimon Rumble Arena music dude, its a great touch! Speaking of Gundam Wing... They also made the side story Gundams PBandai too and my god getting your hands on them were hell, when in the past the side story machines were just regular releases!

Every toy company seems to have similar problems these days.

> See cool Gunpla kit > Wow this is cool, I hope it’s selling for a reasonable price > It’s P-Bandai > Repeat

You should look up the number of Digimon cards that have erratas due to translation errors. Keep in mind, almost none of them have reprints to fix the issue

THANK YOU! I'm glad someone's talking about their draconic practises. It's even worse how the studios they contract to make their games take all the heat for the crap they impose on the devs, essentially being used as scapegoats. It's insane how deep this Bandai rabbit hole goes.... all these IPs deserve to be under a better company

Thundercats 2011 flopped because Bandai was awful with the merch distribution and one of the seasons the show got cancelled albeit flimsily because it wasn’t selling enough toys according to Cartoon Network. The same Cartoon Network that thought CN Real was a good idea and something the public wanted despite the fact no one asked.

Digimon would be more prosperous if any company except Bandai were in charge of it I absolutely adore all the characters all I wish for is more accessible plushies

People should send this video to the executive offices and investors of Bandai Namco.

Also the negligence, even how bad they're managing things at least they seems to care to try for Gundam and Anime properties but somehow not to Digimon, the important franchise they fully owned and loved by fans. Bandai to Digimon is like Capcom to Megaman.

I'm super upset about them not taking full advantage of Digimon since around 2004. I really want to see a modern big budget Digimon game.

Problem is that, Bandai don't give a shit. Love it or hate it, they have way too many insanely profitable IPs, and they can keep doing this disgusting tactics for the next 20, 30 years and never face any real consequence. Artificial scarcity doesn't help their reputation, but it sure as hell help their sales. And that's all they care about. Source: Living in a SEA country where hot P-Bandai item sells out in less than 1 second, scooped by bots deployed by scalpers.

So I'm guessing we're never getting another Klonoa game?...

I'll never forgive Bandai by cancelling their Cowboy Bebop line just because Vicious didn't sell well enough. Just two figures and they had a prototype for the next one being Faye Valentine, who I feel could have sold pretty well.

i only managed to find a physical copy of the klonoa collection AT A CON FOR A JACKED-UP PRICE. and then they insist that if you wanna get a new klonoa game you have to buy the hard-to-find collection that we only ever advertised in a nintendo direct ;-) i genuinely hope this company gets mega-sued for their practices.

Digimon would be far more popular than Pokémon now had Bandai not keep sabotaging it like they’re Vince McMahon when there’s any hot momentum that threatens their darling mega star. Klonoa would be seeing a new announcement of a new game if they know what they’re doing. What are you doing Bandai? Thundercats 2011’s cancellation is partly their fault. The last five years of their Power Rangers tenure. Involving themselves with people who hates gamers. The fact Digimon hasn’t become a white hot licence outside of Japan since Cyber Sleuth and Adventure Tri dropped.

My biggest problem with Bandai is how they basically let Gundam die in the west when it could be huge, it has become bigger in recent years which is mostly due to fans and 3rd party retailers and not Bandai making it easier. I live in the UK and I know many people who remember seeing Wing often when it aired in the west but it’s only seen in dedicated anime shops or Forbidden Planet. MAKE IT EASIER TO GIVE YOU MY MONEY BANDAI!!!!

I hate Bandai for forgetting about Digimon & Klonoa!

Bandai is allot like Nintendo as they are both companies with successful IPs yet the way they treat their core fans are horrible when fans just want to have fun and enjoy the fandom with these companies created IPs.

Minor correction but it's actually Namco Bandai Filmworks (formally knownas Sunsrise) who were the ones who forced the gay aspect of G-Witch to be downplayed, Bandai (or more specifically the branch of Bandai you are talking about) were actually fine with them being gay and produced lots of merchandise openly portraying them as such.

Digumon fan from Brazil here: you guys are lucky. Brazil doesn't even get the products...

This video perfectly sums up how bandai treats digimon. Let's also not forget how bamco treated survive guilmon with some people getting codes at launch while others didn't. Or next order being limited physically for whatever reason despite it being easy to get a physical copy of it for the ps4 version. Also the fact that bandai refuses to localize the pendulum 20th despite every comment section I've seen on their social media posts about the dm20th has comments about begging for it.

Fellow Digimon fan here. I'll touch a bit more on how they are absurdly incompetent when it comes to this particular franchise: Have you ever heard of the Digimon mobile games? of course you haven't, silly. Because they kept killing them after just 2 years of operation for whatever reason. I loved Digimon Heroes, which was kind of a card/match-3 type of game. It wasn't anything amazing, but the game was fun in it's own right. Still it went EOS after barely 2 years, then they vomited Digimon Links, a pvp focused gacha game with barely anything to do besides the arena mode. It also went down after barely 2 years and then they tried with ReArise, wich was more in line with mobile games at the time and was, overall, very decent, but it also didn't last more then 2 years. All of their games, while kinda decent, were mostly devoid of any actual content besides 1 or 2 game modes and a constant power creep. The games didn't became massive successes over night, so they abandoned them and with each new entry, people were more skeptical about the longevity of the games, therefore not buying shit. On the other hand you may know YugiOh or Magic, right? 2 very famous TCG. You know what they have in common? A GAME. Well it's not really a game per se, but a virtual arena or something like that, you know... TO PLAY WITHOUT GOING OUT??? You know what the Digimon TCG has? A VIRTUAL TUTORIAL. CAN YOU EXPLAIN ME WHY ONLY JUST A TUTORIAL???? YOU ALREADY HAVE THE PROGRAM UP AND RUNNING, ADD MORE CARDS AND A MATCHMAKING??? HELLO??? COMPETE ON THE MARKET?????????????????

Massive Tales Of fan here, and you nailed it right on the head. I’ve never seen a company so consistently incompetent and still somehow makes money being so incompetent. To clarify. The Tales series has been going since 1995, and has had annual releases since. Do you know that we here overseas only have *half* of these games? We have all of the “mainline” games, but others, such as Tales Of Innocence, Rebirth, and several others are still Japan only, and have been said previously to not be coming overseas at all? Did you know that in the mainline games, they have optional bosses known as cameo battles, where you can fight characters previously featured in past games in the series, and that some of the games they reference they sometimes have the gall to pull from games that have been Japan only, that anyone not in Japan would be completely mystified on who they are and what their deal is? For better reference, imagine a world where every Final Fantasy game was Japan only, save for FF7 and FF9. 9 constantly references every game beforehand, so while people in Japan would get all of the winks and nods, everyone else would be totally lost on what this game is even talking about half of the time. Now imagine a company unironically doing just that with their own RPG franchise, and you’re expected to get the references despite locking half of the games away overseas without any means to play them other than fan translations or in some cases outright piracy because they refuse to rerelease these games as well unless it’s a cold day in hell. Now imagine everything I just mentioned above and then some, because Bamco recently delisted the Tales games that were on PS3, that they *TO THIS DAY* have not rereleased and possibly never will unless serious fan outcry happens, all because they could and no one has the power to stop them. Instead, they’d rather rerelease a game that’s a port of a port of a port from almost 20 years ago and expect you to pay for that and the glitchy mess that it is instead of giving it a full blown ground up remake like it deserved. I don’t think I’ve ever felt this way about any other company except for Bamco. They need to get their just desserts and it needs to happen soon.

so many companies love to >release thing >dont market it well >it doesnt make 12 kajillion bazillion dollars 20 minutes after release "i guess everyone hates it we should never make it again"

Poor Klonoa, my poor son

The other issue for the Digimon card game is that it's the only product they overprint...

Ah, yes, those bandits at Bandai. There are certainly a bunch of things I really hate from them. As a Gundam fan, the easiest one I can remember is how Unicorn became their golden child of the entire Gundam franchise, they could never stop milking it despite how much of a beginner's trap Unicorn really is for those who have never seen the Universal Century series before. Of course I'm not forgetting the disgusting practice that is P-BANDAI. That thing screams greed all over the place. There's also another favorite franchise of mine (an idol series) that is owned and got ruined by those bandits, but I've already kicked the dead horse for years that I see no more point of doing it again, not to mention the franchise wasn't that well-known worldwide anyway. Also, not only the fans are suffering from these bandits' atrocity, even the creators suffered as well. Just ask the creator of Gundam franchise himself: Yoshiyuki Tomino.

Don't forget their also NAMCO, and they often straight up ignore what the fans want, especially if the fans are ENGLISH DUB and want their game dubbed by the same cast that did the ANIME dub, but they ofen won't even translate the Voices anymore in anything but the most well known IP games now to Save buck and also doom that game to shit sales as casuals (not super fans of a series) in the west often will not pickup a game that has not had its voices dubbed. They aren't a great company toward their western audience at all.

I'm glad more people are aware of how terrible bandai namco is. Being a Canadian, my country has been living in the shadows of America and their US P-bandai store since bandai for some reason shut down the Canadian P-bandai store 5 years ago and never spoke of it since. It really sucks that bandai basically ignored an entire country that is neighboring the US for reasons unknown, letting scalpers hold an unbreakable monopoly over p-bandai products here.

"Oops we totally forgot to advertise (insert game here) and didn't intentionally make sure it failed guess we won't be making new ones"

True😢Bandai seemed monopolize in the Japanese toy market so they really didn’t care what fans thought

us in the digitama hatchery have been complaining about bandai for years. you didn't even touch how they're doing with super sentai or tamagotchi, but man, could they just do better than what they're doing

Would like to add my additional knowledge on Bandai Namco's incompetence when it comes to Klonoa Phantasy Reverie. (+Katamari) It's clearly rushed. Let's rewind to when the first Katamari game was remastered by Monkey Craft, they did a damn good job, only one actual bug with the port that doesn't really detract from the game in any way, and the only grievance I have with it is that there's no option to use the original models for the playable characters, which have been replaced with new ones that don't match the PS2 game's art style. What does Namco do next? Have this same studio remaster the sequel, We Love Katamari. Cool, makes sense, they can absolutely get that one done with no issues with the experience they gained from the first job, eas- _They also have them develop the remasters for BOTH Klonoa games AT THE SAME TIME._ Three big projects at once, all three of which are beloved titles which fans have been itching to have rereleased for literal decades. And lo and behold, when We Love Katamari Reroll and Phantasy Reverie come out, they _"suspiciously"_ have some of the same issues, strange changes to how the original games functioned, and a noticeable lack of polish for anyone who pays even a little bit of attention. The "game" part of the games themselves are entirely serviceable, it's just everything surrounding that which is scuffed in the weirdest of ways, cutscenes being wonky as hell in the Klonoa games with how text progresses, Reroll 2 forgetting to update the character designs for cousins returning from the first game, which canonically changed between games, made obvious by the fact their ingame character descriptions directly mention these changes, even though they don't even exist in that version, both games having an annoying unremovable "hold to skip" prompt in the corner ALL cutscenes, consistent framerate issues, misguided changes to the UI in Reroll 2, especially in the hub world, and finally, half assed added content that that is clearly undercooked, hats for the Klonoa games, while also removing the added Mirror Mode challenge levels from Wii version, and all the Royal Reverie levels in Reroll 2, that don't even add any stars or planets to the cosmos when beaten like every other level (the main catharsis of these games being when you go to the Cosmos Viewer and gaze upon your achievements floating in the sky), and also coincides with the fact they forgot to update the design of the young King, whom you play as in this mode, to match the new art style, leading him looking out of place in all of the promotional material that puts him side by side with the Prince and cousins, he's literally using the old art style.

Don't even get started on the Digimon mini figure line, utter dookie for stupid prices. You might as well 3D print the figures and paint them yourself.

THANK YOU!!! MY GOD!!! As a Digimon fan that started with the DM20, I was there to see all of the shit unfold, and that's not even mentioning the constant shutdown of Digimon mobile games. But the DM20 was such a great start for what should've been the rebirth of Digimon. The Digimon X1 really solidified Digimon for me. I was waiting on the X3 because I really wanted to get Jesmon X but with the X2 fumbling I knew we were cooked. Then came the Vital Bracelet. I also ended doing the $39 preorder for the white VB. I wanted it so bad I got the app way before then using the free Pulsemon to mess around. Faith was restored for me with the VB. So then the VB BE dropped and fomo hit me despite the red flags like the Dims not being able to make use of any of the new features of the BE and Dim Digimon *literally* being weaker on top of that. But I still enjoyed the device and the BE Memories they released for it. And may every Digimon fan say in unison: "F*ck the Arena App!" Because that solidifies everything this video talks about. First of all, they knowingly released an inferior app and I thank God nothing fatal have happened to my Digimon. And second, instead of actually fixing the app, they left it to rot. It's impressive that the app actually is still in service. I'm just waiting for the moment that Bandai truly redeems themselves overseas with Digimon.

As a digimon fan I hate Bandai for fucking a franchise I love so dearly every single time, every time I try to get back to that interest I get reminded of of terribly it's handled

Also, ouch! Bandai were the ones working originally on Metroid Prime 4? That explains the 2025 release window.

I agree with everything you said here. P Bandai sucks, fomo is garbage, and microtransactions are terrible. That being said... they're nowhere near most of the companies you mentioned at the beginning. Hasbro does a lot of the same stuff Bandai does, and sometimes worse. And EA makes Bandai look like a saint. That's not to say that Bandai doesn't have issues, but at least theres hope for them. Some of these other companies will screw over consumers, and we'll just accept it as par for the course. 😂😂

The Gundam Fanbase knows how terrible this company is, and we don't have a choice but to eat their bullshit if we want to keep the gundam franchise alive.

As a gundam fan into gunpla... I concur... You cant blame the popularity of bootleg kitsellers that makes kits for gunpla that bandai refuses to sell or resell and many gundams bandai even refuses to make!

Tsuburaya, the creator of Ultraman, literally can't produce any new Kaiju of their show without being force by Bandai to pump some new stuff to be toys. That's why New Gen Ultraman have many gimmicks and almost all monsters and aliens are reused characters. And don't forget we are waiting for a New Fighting Evolution game.

As a Gunpla fan, I cannot put into words how much I sympathize with your pain. At least my PBandai-exclusive green Marasai looks good on my shelf.

As both a Digimon diehard and a Tokusatsu fan, i almost hate to see cool forms/toys in the shows because I know that there's a 90% chance it ends up being p-bandai exclusive. Which is bad enough with Digimon stuff, but the Sentai stuff is exlusive is p-bandai japan, which is hyper-letigious about shunning proxy purchases, so if you want it you have to go through third party websites that always up the price.

As a digimon fan who has basically given up until bandai sell the IP to another company (very doubtful though), this was so healing to listen to that fuckass company get shit on 😭💜

Every day I wake up and cry that the Tales of IP is in Bandai's hands

The Bandai Namco NUI website has World Shopping partnership, but their products are still region restricted, so I can't get whatever upcoming Japan-exclusive Tamagotchi merch firsthand, and we aren't planning on returning to Japan. How frustrating! Also, I don't really trust second-hand preorders. Compared back to earlier decades, when Tamagotchi were much more popular than nowadays, there was merch for most of the characters at that time. Now, newer debutants barely even get a single plush. (Even my favourite character barely got merch of himself, but I got what I can.) Seeing two of the newest characters recieve plushies as part of a Japan-exclusive Sanrio crossover plush series, I thought I could snag them, but the only problem is that I don't live in Japan. The website that the preorders were listed in fooled me into thinking they were available to ship overseas, but a disclaimer says otherwise. Being a very recently established Tamagotchi interest person, I'll leave other opinions regarding older media to more experienced fans.

I'm here because Bandai Namco has not dubbed the rest of the Tamagotchi anime series in English.

Between GunEvo's shut down and Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash's awful quality, it's very apparent that Bamco stopped caring as long as they rake in the dough.

Not a Digimon fan but I like Gundam (big Mecha fan btw) so I feel your pain. Btw Bandai also has the same issue many other big companies have in IP hoarding but somehow even worse. If you or anyone else doesn't understand what I mean, Bandai owns this animation studio Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. (formerly Sunrise) which basically made many of the good if not the best mecha animes out there. Some of these were just 1 and dones like Ideon and that's fine but others were made to sell toys and be ongoing franchises like the Brave series. Note the latter is what I will be cursing them till the end of my days since they basically made it so the series only gets new versions of their old robots despite all entries in this series doing well. I will never forgive them for not making a new anime for said series and making it about reselling old toys and toys alone.

Just found your channel man, and enjoying it so far! Also if you love Impmon you are eating good with the Liberator web novel!

As a mecha fan who can't buy code geass hg kit and the eclipse's backpack because those were p-bandai, I feel this video on a personal level.

3:26 If you think this is bad, the Japanese site sells shirts tokusatsu characters wore for exactly one episode. Post-redemption Gentoku Himuro (aka Kamen Rider Rogue) from Kamen Rider Build was notorious for being a vehicle for these.

I don't get why they partnered with Call of Duty for their Gundam collab. None of the clips I've seen with CoD youtubers reacting to the collab seemed like the kind of people that would become Gundam fans. I think Fortnite would've made a far better fit

SRW 30 was a miracle, because they release SRW V and X on Steam but only SEA region, and I suppose they decide those not selling well to the point SRW T never got a Steam version.

Xenoverse 2 is a Bandai Namco masterpiece, too: - has the netcode we all know - accidentally disabled DLCs for random players at least twice - implemented a currency you can buy optionally for real money except you can't on PC - there is not much content to buy - announced a new currency you can exclusively buy for real money a few months ago but never released it - has time limited online events - one of which related to the latest DLC didn't work for a few weeks on PC and until the end of the event on xbox - some events return as once each 5 years or so