Big Finish General Discussion

I can understand like obviously wanting it. Heck, I’m a huge collector of memorabilia but as I say I cut back on BF for space, and the cheaper price point years ago. I have more room now, but I ain’t repurchasing over 5 years of audios I’ve heard :sob:

A limited run would be nice, maybe they will due to the negative feedback but who knows. It certainly won’t help the case if they don’t buy it like some of them have been indicating.

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Can they just cast her as a new Master already, please and thank you.

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See I doubt they’ll change course, assuming at tops a CD is an extra £5 to make when covering printing, packaging, storage, (and with pre-orders shipping), they’re basically getting over an extra 10% by removing the option and going digital only. And no company would complain at extra profit. I’m sure a few people won’t buy it, but I’ve already folded and I expect once more details are revealed more people will too.

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But, but, but, but she’s already the Toymaker…

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She can be every character. Bring it on.

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The Master Toymaker Slitheen :face_with_peeking_eye:

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Massively underused too, wish it was a 4 parter and that’s coming from me :sob:

Totally, I think at the end of the day they will have data to show their customers are moving more to digital only. Plus, yeah they’re a small business which people tend to forget so if it isn’t going to work for a release or they’re unsure then it makes sense not to take a risk.

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The Master Toymaker Slitheen Auntie :wink:

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Hang on, is/was she actually the Toymaker? Wasn’t she the Miniaturist? Someone gimme the low down please and thank you.

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She was the Toymaker in Matryoshka! I believe the Miniaturist is implied to be the Toymaker? but I haven’t heard that one.

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Have you considered investigating the possibility of burning to CD?

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I remember making this suggestion a few years ago when BF made a TLV story download and (at the time an exclusive vinyl to either HMV or ASDA). However, its not something that really appeals to most of us CD collectors.

The majority of us don’t listen to the CD - granted I know a few people on other forums who exclusively do for reasons I don’t fully understand and this could definitely help them. For the bulk of us, it’s just something that helps justify spending what is a relatively large amount of money on 3ish hours of audio (obviously as a company with a small audience the prices are justified on their end). Even though its a few extra pounds, having something you physically own does mentally make it feel like better value (for me at least).

Plus, I know a few Big Finish fans who buy physical due to ensure they retain access to them legally - after all should Big Finish lose rights (or heaven forbid close and the servers go offline) we’d no longer be able to download what we’ve bought.

People like me are going to have to move to downloads eventually - but its a difficult adaptation to us as it does feel like the value is going down (as silly as it sounds) and burning a CD just doesn’t that fix it unfortunately.

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This is so true. Additionally – I have enough money now to buy lots of BF, but can only justify spending so much because I know that one day, if I either find myself without enough money to take care of myself, or if I stop being hyperfixated on Doctor Who, I can sell my collection of CDs to make up for all that I spent on them. Downloads can’t be sold, so spending almost the full price on them for something that can never be ‘got back’ by reselling feels really risky.

So that’s one of the reasons why seeing yet another release be download-only is really really miserable.

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Big Finish are really helpful in saying when their licenses end, so providing nothing happens prior to that, you should at least check so you can put all your audios on a hard drive.

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They often put a big sale on too. I remember getting The Martian Chronicles super cheap the week before the licence ran out.

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I always back up to an external hard drive. There were/still are (?) issues with the BF app. I use a separate audio media player for them.

You don’t really ‘own’ digital content unless you have it backed up somewhere, like on a nice external Hard Drive or cloud storage.

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If you want to go the extra mile, I recommend Audiobookshelf as a self-hosted audiobook streaming service.

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Does anyone else play games while listening? For me it became like.. idk second nature. Years ago I used to listen while either working (probs why I forgot most of the 8/Charley stuff) or shutting my eyes laying down :sob:

Problem I have is, I’ve finished the amazing Powerwash Simulator like 4/5 times now including all DLC. Thank god there’s a sequel game due out later this year.

I’m kinda sick replaying, anyone else got games they play I could maybe do? Preferably with minimal dialogue, as with Powerwash.

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Yes,thats the only way I can focus,i used to play elden ring while listening to lots of 6th doctor audios now i play this skiing game.

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We’ve talked about games we play while listening before, not sure which topic it was - think it might have been in this one:

How do you listen to Audio Dramas?

Or may have been a random tangent somewhere else!

But I’ve managed to play these games while listening:

  • Simple phone games like Royal Match are my usual go-to, if I finish a chore and have like 20 mins left, I’ll play that for a bit
  • Stardew Valley is a good one because it’s quite chill, especially if you’re not min/maxing
  • Lately I’ve been listening while building my factories in Satisfactory
  • If you like Powerwash Simulator then maybe try something like House Flipper? Or there are other cleaning games. Or something like Eurotruck Simulator?
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