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if you use the term "shoe game" then you are what is wrong with it in my opinion
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^ It's not exactly that. Nike recognized that their customers wear shoes for "style". When sig shoes were made while Jordan, Barkley etc. were still playing, the quality was a bit better because they were the current tech in terms of shoe. Now with the retros, these stars aren't playing anymore, but the nostalgia is still there by the consumer. So, they find cheaper ways to reproduce the shoe with style as the primary function of the retros. They don't expect you to ball in the retros, although you certainly can. They aren't made to last like the original shoe. They think that the consumer will buy no matter what because of the nostalgia, but whatever. Buy what you like. Don't like the price, you know what to do.... Plus, Nike was planning on retroing sigs anyway. I remember reading back in 1999 or 2000 or so, they were doing what was called the millennium project where they would be reissuing past Nike signature models. That was waaaay back when before people knew release dates months in advance and lined up. Can it be when it was all so simple thenOriginally Posted by swingshot
Originally Posted by dunks318ti
In my opinion they should only retro with GR status of HIGH quantities once every blue moon. .
Nike don't give a crap. They're the only game in town and retailers basically have to take their product, however cheap or often the turn it out.
In the mid-nineties Nike upped their game and put the competition down. Now, their market dominance, their market abuse, is the price we're paying for the success in the nineties.
The Air Max 2 CB is a prime example. Retros look like the shoe in the picture above.
They feel nothing like it. OGs are supportive, but soft both on the upper and the midsole.
Retros feel like some of mishapen hiking boot. When they shrunk the air bubble they didn't even add extra material to the midsole, Retros sit on the ground like those strength shoes.
That just increases heel drag, which in turn wears the shoe out more quickly.
Nike really do not give a flying expletive anymore, they made me a sneaker head, but now they're driving me away.
^ It's not exactly that. Nike recognized that their customers wear shoes for "style". When sig shoes were made while Jordan, Barkley etc. were still playing, the quality was a bit better because they were the current tech in terms of shoe. Now with the retros, these stars aren't playing anymore, but the nostalgia is still there by the consumer. So, they find cheaper ways to reproduce the shoe with style as the primary function of the retros. They don't expect you to ball in the retros, although you certainly can. They aren't made to last like the original shoe. They think that the consumer will buy no matter what because of the nostalgia, but whatever. Buy what you like. Don't like the price, you know what to do.... Plus, Nike was planning on retroing sigs anyway. I remember reading back in 1999 or 2000 or so, they were doing what was called the millennium project where they would be reissuing past Nike signature models. That was waaaay back when before people knew release dates months in advance and lined up. Can it be when it was all so simple thenOriginally Posted by swingshot
Originally Posted by dunks318ti
In my opinion they should only retro with GR status of HIGH quantities once every blue moon. .
Nike don't give a crap. They're the only game in town and retailers basically have to take their product, however cheap or often the turn it out.
In the mid-nineties Nike upped their game and put the competition down. Now, their market dominance, their market abuse, is the price we're paying for the success in the nineties.
The Air Max 2 CB is a prime example. Retros look like the shoe in the picture above.
They feel nothing like it. OGs are supportive, but soft both on the upper and the midsole.
Retros feel like some of mishapen hiking boot. When they shrunk the air bubble they didn't even add extra material to the midsole, Retros sit on the ground like those strength shoes.
That just increases heel drag, which in turn wears the shoe out more quickly.
Nike really do not give a flying expletive anymore, they made me a sneaker head, but now they're driving me away.
QFT!!!!Originally Posted by nflowshoe
I know when they first started they sat on shelves but once they became the "cool" thing to get prices went up and quality went down
QFT!!!!Originally Posted by nflowshoe
I know when they first started they sat on shelves but once they became the "cool" thing to get prices went up and quality went down