The BBC should do more to help promote. They do promote but its very rarely and tends to be new who only stuff.
The replies recently are horrible. Not constructive at all tbh. People are complaining about being blocked for saying not to hire zionists but in actual fact they’ve been replying with pro-piracy stuff as you say which is the real reason they’re blocked.
OK, I don’t use Twitter but I think piracy isn’t necessarily linked to some kind of boycott which appears to legitimise the practice on moral grounds.
Yeah, it can be an accessibility issue too. But I think the fact they’ve released an article on it now, when they are facing quite a bit of pushback is quite telling about why they posted it now, rather than releasing another Torchwood Cascade, for example.
For some people piracy is a moral issue, but even then i think theres a large enough number who just dont want to pay.
I think the moral outrage is an excuse to pirate rather than the reason.
Plus imo if its a moral issue dont engage period. Like I didnt buy Zygon Century due to Baxendale’s involvement but I’m not going to pirate it either as I think that’ll still fuel conversations about it.
Yeah like for me, I don’t really care about pirating other stuff like movies or Sims expansions but when it comes to a small independent company like BF I do care about it and don’t pirate.
100%
Exactly, they want to have their cake & eat it.
The sheer volume of content can feel overwhelming – and expensive. We understand the temptation to download pirated copies.
Literally just make less then LMAO
I think they do make quite a lot every month like i wouldnt even mind if every month they did 3 or 4 releases and not like 7 or 8
Yep. I don’t buy much BF anymore to be honest but the number of monthly releases has always felt excessive.
Nobody has to buy everything though. There’s something for everyone which is the beauty of Big Finish. If they got rid of one or two ranges, they could be somebodies favourite range!
People… are very strange.
It wouldn’t really matter if they were cool, creative little releases like the main range or the Torchwood monthly stories (
), but the vast majority of them are these indistinguishable, tonally homogenous boxsets that they’re relying on whales[1] to pick up.
Like sorry team but I’m not going to shell out £35 for The Curator versus the Fugitive Doctor: Judgement 1: Dark Earth: Requiem 3: Attack of the Voord: Part 2 (starring Jon Culshaw and Nicholas Briggs as everybody) on the off-chance that it might have something interesting to say. Please slow down!
(people who buy nearly every release) ↩︎
I think being compared to a whale certainly isn’t what I expected to read on the forum today…
I’d say all BF releases are cool and creative stories, and its just ridiculous some of those things you suggested there.
But thats personal taste Mr Krill. As BF themselves say, its overwhelming. Especially so for new listeners.
Yeah as Jamie said no one needs to buy everything,just buy what u like I guess.
I think there’s surely more of a middle ground available here because I struggle to look at something like Genesis of Terror and see it as a purely creative impulse.
As I understand it, that’s an actual economic term - please don’t read that as me comparing anybody physically to a whale (for all I know you could all be dolphins, and I’m not a racist).
oh dear lord genesis of terror must be the worst audio i’ve listened to,and that says something cause nekromanteia exists.
Okay well I agree on Genesis, but that’s just one release. This year has been SUPER creative IMO. As I say, you can pick up whatever you want and they’ll stop doing releases for ranges that don’t get support like Rani Takes on the World.
I’ve never heard of the term being used, so could’ve done with a little asterix on that maybe. I know you weren’t to know, but I’ve been subject to a lot of issues/bullying due to my weight so that’s just not a nice thing to read.
Aww I’m sorry Jamie 
not my intention!
Yes, whales is an term (a weird one) for people who buy everything. It’s particularly relevant in mobile phone games where lots of stuff to help you advance is ‘pay to win’. The people who sink thousands of pounds/dollars into the games are what keep them ‘free’ for everyone else.