8 months have passed since the registration of the klonoa encore trademark, and so far we still don't have any concrete news about Klonoa Encore.
But in this thread i wanted to tackle a different issue, which regards Klonoa Encore's success and the future of Klonoa as well.
And said issue is:
In our current conditions, Klonoa Encore cannot be a successful release
And the reason why i believe so is mainly because of 2 factors:
1) We, as a community, are not ready for Klonoa Encore, the size of Klonoa's fanbase is still not big enough to sustain a franchise, i'm 100% sure that if Klonoa encore were to release right now it would be destined to fail because there are simply not enough people who would be buying the game.
What i also know is that one day, eventually, we will have to get out from our cult-like size and ascend to something bigger, way bigger than now.
The klonoa fanbase needs to grow up, both in size and in the mentality.
And i want to clarify, the expansion of our fanbase is something that needs to happen organically, attempting to force things out never turns out too well, so please abstain yourself from contacting and/or harassing any type of entity that you believe could help us, harassment will get us nowhere.
The only way we can expand ourselves is doing the same exact thing we have been doing for the past years, show our love for this franchise.
2) the seconds problem, and this is a big one, has to do with Bandai Namco themselves, and that problem is:
Judging by how they have been handling Mr driller's marketing so far, it seems that they haven't learned their lesson during the wii days
Go on BN's official twitter and count the number of posts about Mr Driller.
Don't worry, i already did that job for you: they have been posting only 2 tweets about him in the month of May.
This is a huge issue and i'm pretty sure you already know why, if this is the type of marketing they have given for mr driller then i'm not too hopeful that Klonoa will be given a better one, which means that we could potentially see another wiimake tragedy due to lack of proper marketing from BN.
It really seems that Bamco didn't learn their lesson when the wiimake happened, and it seems very likely that they are on their path to commit the same mistake again.
I don't mean to sound rude towards BN, however i'am very judgemental of their marketing capabilities.
Which is exactly the reason why i want to say:
Keep an eye on bandai namco, as they might need a helping hand from us to advertise Klonoa Encore to the public.
And there you have it, this are the 2 issues which i believe stand in the way of Klonoa Encore from being a successful release.
-Our community is still too small to ensure to a proper successful release when Klonoa Encore comes out
-Bandai Namco doesn't seem to have improved their marketing skills.
I do not know what should be the solutions to these problems, but i know we will have to find a way to pull through for the future of Klonoa.
What do you think about this topic ? Are we setting ourselves up for another Wiimake tragedy ? Or you think there's way we can fix both of these issues ?
