From srstoneb@bu-ast.bu.edu Wed Jul 19 12:42:09 2000 From: srstoneb@bu-ast.bu.edu (Steve-o Stonebraker) Message-Id: Newsgroups: alt.toys.transformers Subject: Re: Botcon (Hasbro reps....) References: <8l0ksc$ubb$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net> <20000718193516.19652.00000289@ng-fa1.aol.com> <8l3eij$30v$1@slb2.atl.mindspring.net> <3975c40c$1_4@vienna7.his.com> Followup-To: On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:05:22 -0400, Zepherimus wrote: > >There may have been a few other things, but I don't recall them offhand. > >There WAS a "no camera" policy... I'm amazed the one yutz who DID snap a > >picture made it out alive. > > > > > >M "I Mean, I'm Amazed The FANS Didn't Kill Him Before Hasbro Could > >Confiscate The Camera" Sipher > > Why is that ? I love spies, they are nifty people, especially that guy who > smuggled a video camera into a Squaresoft first glimpse conference and taped > Final Fantasy 9 promo. I beg to differ... There are reasons that corporations choose to limit the anount of information they release about their upcoming products. The information belongs to them, and they have every right to withhold it if they want to. It's a violation of trust to smuggle footage out after being specifically told not to film. It also serves absolutely no purpose other than increasing fans' rabid obsession with knowing everything about upcoming products before the products even exist while simultaneously acting as a stab in the back to the company that the fans supposedly admire by giving competitors an edge and by reducing the impact of any planned marketing strategies. If you *like* Hasbro and want them to succeed, how can you support it when people carelessly go against their wishes? --Steve-o, who was pretty disappointed in psx.ign.com when they went ahead and posted that FF9 footage after initially saying they wouldn't... only to have SquareSoft tell them to take it down immediately... Hydra & Buster's Masterforce/Victory subtitling project needs donations! *** http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/hantaakiraa/pt/fansub.html *** --------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Stonebraker | Transformers FAQ Keeper | Astrophysicist srstoneb@bu.edu | http://astro.bu.edu/~srstoneb/ | AOL IM: srstoneb