Gundam Goes Diskless: GQuuuuuuX Becomes Bandai’s First Diskless Anime Edition

Jesus Christ guys, you couldn't use a canon picture of Machu? Had to use big booby fan art?

Anyway... this makes me wonder what's to become of AL releases. In the same window of time right stuf were up to Gundam obscurities, whilst AL still haven't even finished the UC. With Bandai showing signs of returning to their 2010s plan of just including subs on Japanese releases, are they even going to bother with AL anymore?
 
It will probably do fine because of how popular Gundam is in general but I wouldn't want to spend money on a release like this! I could also see it working for gacha game tie-ins and other series where fans would buy multiple copies of releases for extras. But streaming is so much more convenient; if the disc release isn't actually a disc release then there's no point to it for me. I'd rather just spend that money on a separate good quality figurine or something for the show.

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I would happily support Gundam digital releases if it had a download option. I support the AL releases whenever they actually come out but I'm basically out of space and all I'm getting physical wise is a box and artbook made of whatever assets Bandai Namco could be arsed to send them.

I'm stuck on PS4 but 2 years ago I bought a harddrive for it so I could have direct download games rather than more physical copies I don't have space for.
 
Have been a bit busy and hadn't been on here in a while. I did a double take when i saw this.

Honestly this is kind of a disgusting move on Bandai's part. I thought better of them as a company.

Reminds me of those awful collector's editions of games from about 7 or 8 years ago where they'd produce the statues, artbooks and all kinds of stuff but you only got a digital code for the game and they were like £200. No thanks man.

To me it feels as if this is almost encouraging people to pirate stuff by ripping from the likes of Bandai's Youtube channel and slapping it on a Blu ray with subs. Particularly so if the disc is the only thing missing because then any kind of low rent effort of getting it on disc is automatically better than nothing (Bandai's new approach seemingly).

I REALLY hope this dies off like the discless game collector's edition and will be an embarrasing footnote of the company's history in the future.
 
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