Quoted from srmonte:Everyone needs to understand that all buying parties are right in many ways to how they feel (le buyers, se buyers and seplus buyers) this whole situation falls on cgc's shoulders.
Maybe, but our opinions on Pinside didn't help them out very much with assessing LE demand prior to announcement. Stepping back from this dumpster fire and thinking back to what I've read here over the past year, I can see how they ended up low on the LE numbers. I've read for weeks and weeks in this thread and over a year in others, through hundreds of posts about how mediocre most people felt CC game play was. Many said it was only popular only because of scarcity. Many people were hoping for BBB or one of the JPoP games as remakes instead (me included, I want ToTANr). Then there were the people posting in various threads that unless the new CCR contained the "Continued" code, they were out. So, IMHO our reactions on Pinside greatly depressed the outlook for CCR interest consistently and over long period of time. At a minimum I would say that our interests were less clear than when we were previously awaiting MMR and AFMR. Then, Godzilla was amazing and released prior to CCR announcement, which sucked up numerous people's available pinball funds. Again, there were numerous posts in various Pinside threads about how CGC took too long to announce CCR, so some buyers said that they were sending their saved CGC pinball money to Stern instead.
I know companies have other analysis tools besides Pinside, but after reading about our interest for a CC remake over the past couple of years, I'm actually a little surprised we got CCR. I figured it was 50/50 that BBB, Whitewater, or one of the JPoP titles we've begged for ad nauseam would have been next. I know I certainly didn't expect such a firestorm of interest for CCR and I'm "lucky" that I casually stumbled onto the LE list. Again, the haves and have nots in this CCR LE Bloodsport were all a matter of timing and a little luck. No one that I know of had to win a tournament or sacrifice for their LE spot, including me, so I can't make myself outraged at toppers for SE buyers no matter how hard I've tried.