Make it free.

Make it free and ask for donations

>>45355318
This and reward tv-watchers

>>45355288
I offer a service that is equal to the product they get for free, if not better. The problem with companies as it stands now is, we are getting shit for money and diamonds for free. Steam is a good example as to what they should be striving to do with anime.

Find every torrent, trace the location, murder everyone who DLs.

Don't try to be an ass about it being on the net, lower the prices of the BD so as for it to be accessible to everyone, and make quality localizations of said animes, whether it would be through dubs, subs, or both.

Should've been "How do you stop people from pirating anime and still make a profit?"

follow the lead of the egyptian government and shut down the internet

>>45355420

Make it available in your website with ads thrown in the download, also stream, with a shit load of ads.

You don't. You employ non-retarded business tactics and distribution methods to encourage more people to purchase legitimately. More or less what Rightstuf/Nozomi does.

DvD/BD Box-sets packin bonus items EVERYWHERE. Figures, Soundtracks, Artbooks, whatever.

Box set prices top out at 50 bucks for a 26 episode season, unless its a special edition with a notably massive/fancy tie-in bonus.

Make it free, whore out the VA's through cosplay and concert events.

Insert ads for Pizza Hut in the plot.

Profit off freeloaders and TV audiences alike.

>>45355350
>>45355318

Funimation offers free anime and they still get pirated.

Make it more easy to get outside of Japan with the same quality Japan enjoys.

Beat innocent people to death with a shovel.

Protip: Pirating will NEVER stop. You can't approach that, you can only approach the argument of "How can I make people want to buy my product instead of pirating it"

>>45355288
I stop producing anime.

make anime free , sell advertising and merchandice stop expecting people to pay you for 1's and 0's

>>45355472
This.

But the important thing is...make anime watching COOL like the Genesis was compared to the NES.

Also start a voice actor school for anime. It'd take about 5 years for fruitful results to start showing.

english/spanish/german/italian/russian/korean/chinese subtitles

Make it good.

Make it good. Make it memorable. People will buy it on their own, even if they pirate it first.

as long as torrent sites exist, people will pirate the hell out of everything

Make it free to generate fans. However distribute it in a bad quality.

Make money off of TV broadcasts and sell DVDs of the show in high quality, with extra features, added scenes, and missing episodes. Make these DVDs cheap so everyone will buy them. Also, distribute better episodes digitally if people don't want physical copies.

I love how these companies make us out to be such bad guys. All we want is a product of good quality, equal to what our Japanese equivalents are getting at a quick and efficient pace. This includes art books, character CDs, and figures bundled with their anime. All they need to do to succeed is actually listen to their possible customers.

>>45355350
Most legal streams are offered for free. Also GONZO already tried the pay-whatever-you-want-amount-per-episode download with Blassreiter and Tower of Druaga a few years back. I don't think it was very successful because they didn't offer it again.

>>45355594
>Also start a voice actor school for anime.
>implying voice acting schools don't exist

>>45355545
Theoretically, it can. You could show it only in theater, and strip search people at the entrance to make sure they don't record it. The problem is finding a balance between security and availability.

What would I do? I wouldn't try to eliminate pirating all together, since that's a waste of time. Rather, I would make the product as easy to buy as possible. Instead of just Blu-Ray's that come out months later, I would sell each episode online in (at least) 1080p, before or during the TV broadcast. Each episode would cost 5-10 dollars.

I don't know if this would make the anime more profitable, it depends on the quality of the show and what fans want to do.

>>45355485
This is the greatest idea i've ever heard.

Begin a Steam-esque service where anime is sold by the episode (or once it's finished, by the series) with each episode released on the day it airs in Japan. To save money & to encourage purchases, allow anyone to upload fansubs which are all free to download.

Offer direct downloads in the best quality for everyone, but fill the download pages with tons of ads.

>>45355707
>All we want is a product of good quality, equal to what our Japanese equivalents are getting at a quick and efficient pace.

But r1 companies are getting faster at their releases. A few years ago it was common to have to wait 2-3 years for a title to come out. Nowadays they can get a title out within a a year to a year and a half after they announce the acquisition.

>This includes art books, character CDs, and figures bundled with their anime

Companies already tried the limited edition approach with a lot of titles but it's been fairly unsuccessful.

>>45355771
Look at what Steam did with games. The video game community (mostly) has realized that fighting piracy is a war that can't be won.

>implying any method you can come up with would stop piracy

face it:
we pirate because we can

also
'making it free' isn't an option because then it wouldn't be pirating anymore.

the entire season costs $5, high quality dvd, free shipping

the ONLY way i would buy anime.

>>45355551

You're the fox that cant get the grapes and gives up saying the grapes are probably sour aren't you?

>>45355373
>>45355826
>>45355875

Alright, what the fuck did Steam do that's so great?

>>45355707
Most people pirate because it's FREE and EASY

Not because they can't find posters, art books, or anything to buy

>>45355866
Yes, but, let's use Zombie Desu Ka as an example. Why would I wait for BD of that series to be brought over here when I can just download the BD rips for free a year before (or ever) America gets them? Businesses shouldn't think "How do I take down the business that stole my customers?" they should think "How do I get my customers to want me instead"

>>45355852
because people who pirate obviously love paying for things... right?
who would pay for an ad on that site

>>45355969
Same thing the iTunes store did: made it more convenient to pay than to steal.

Gather the IP address of anyone who torrents your animes. Then, the next logical step is to sue them. Instead, travel to their homes and use a gun to kill them. Now, you're probably thinking, "But that many bullets would be fairly expensive." Just take the person's money after shooting them. They won't need it.

Actually, skip the first step and just shoot people for their money. Much easier than this anime business nonsense.

>>45355928

You're the one working for the company, not as a consumer dumbass. Selling it for $5 with all the pops and whistles is losing profit and as a employee you know it. Its not possible

>>45355318
you obviously missed the part where it says "company" people dont make money by losing it.

>>45355852

adblock

TRY AGAIN

Ads fucking EVERYWHERE+ free anime

>>45355875
But games have multiplayer aspect.

>>45355771
>I would sell each episode online in (at least) 1080p, before or during the TV broadcast. Each episode would cost 5-10 dollars.

So if I want a standard 12 episode series DTO I would have to pay at least $60? Most anime blu ray don't even cost that much, and you get the physical product.

Also Sony already tried that as a rental service for Xam'd in HD but people would just rip the episodes and upload them to torrent sites.

I wouldn't take a job where I had to do that, since it's impossible.

I wouldn't try to stop the piracy. I'd actually encourage it. It's only theoretical money loss anyway. Anyway, if there are more people watching my show, there will be more people in foreign markets who might be willing to buy the merchandise.

>>45355969

Steam made it easy to buy games. Most people actually like to support developers that make good games.

I figure the same principle applies here

>>45356026
You can watch anime with a friend/comrade.

Publish it on Youtube. Only have a low(ish) quality version on there. (Maybe with a big fat watermark, though that's a bit insulting, so probably not)

When the DVDs/BDs are released, release them with subtitles in multiple languages and lots of cool extras
(cool extras. Not shit extras, like trailers for completely unrelated shows)

Of course that will still get pirated, so also merchandise the fuck out of it, and as a studio, work hard to produce cool, different, challenging anime every once in a while rather than producing something shit to fill up a slot every season (though that's probably an unrealistic thing to be able to claim to do. I dunno though, Gainax manage it)

>>45356010
oh

well, i'd still sell it for that much

100 dvds sold = $500
100 dvds pirated = $0

i just made you $500

problem?

>>45356008
>"But that many bullets would be fairly expensive."

Depends on the price/bullet and what caliber it's chambered in. But in retrospect, 1 box of ammunition can net you a vast sum of victims... If anything it's more bang for your buck.

make it free, ask for donations, provide accurate translations at the same time as original release.

basically, make it less of a hassle for the end consumer to get a quality product.

I don't, because I can't.

>>45356050
This. A HUGE problem with supporting Funimation is that we aren't supporting anyone involved with the actual creation of the anime we are watching, we are just paying someone to give it to us. People need to feel that they are involved someway with what the service they are paying for.

Encourage online distribution. Those fuckers are stuck in the stone age.

Stop making anime that caters to computer savvy otaku and instead make one that caters to the far less computer literate masses.

So thats all /a/ can manage? Apocalyptic homicide for downloaders and unrealistic $5 product prices?

In case you forgot, people WORK hard to make anime ( even shitty ones, someone has to draw/animate/time it just doesnt shit out of the heavens of japan )

You guys love having your hardwork being bought for $5 with tons of free goodies thrown in don't you all?

>>45356199
Now you're thinking with over 20 lbs of ass and pussy!

>>45356098
the problem is that i don't want a huge pile of dvds in my room but mkvs on my hdd instead so selling dvds for 5$ won't stop me from pirating.
i also want to watch stuff as it airs, not months later when a dvd/BD comes out

>>45356213
Most people don't care about paying for it, they care that paying for it gets you shit quality and that our money is going to some guy at Funimation not the studio that made it.

>>45355288
The Economic system of the planet is seeing a shift from selling "goods" to selling "services". Music and Games are at the forefront of this change, eventually anime will change to or it will die in the new digital age. We only have to wait for the anime company's to see this them selfs.

i use torrents to sample anime in high quality.

If I find it entertaining and worth the money, I buy it. If not I either delete it or leave it on my hard-drive to rot.