Nah, I cannot imagine a signifcant part of the fans checking out big enough to break their sales rates in a significant way. They're way too high up there for that. And as you give yourself as an example of moved on and being someone who cannot bring himself to care anymore: note that you will still going to the next tour AND even probably going to buy that new album. As many will as well. If it's not about curiousity, it will be just about completing the set or giving it a go or some nostalgic thing. This is the most popular german speaking band in history we're talking about; they pretty sure can pull off almost everything now, like Richard implied in a 2016 interview. It also seems like a very new generation-minded way losing interest in a band when they don't bring out records for a long time. I don't think many older people, especially "casual fans" (like my two older brothers, my friend Matthias, my mother,...) would mind buying an album of a band they liked long ago; they don't watch the calendar and constantly remind themselves of how long it's been since a last album (they probably don't even know it exactly). They just hear new stuff is out and buy the record.
Related to that, and not saying that you (Snake) are in this case, but I will never understand people who are getting mad at Rammstein for this long waiting. They don't owe anyone anything, they didn't sign any contract with the fans claiming that they would produce this or that within this period. Nor was this anyway something we actually earned or so. Maybe if it were you it’d be different. Maybe you’d do it for this reason or that. Peace, whatever. But no band owes you your personal happy ending, especially not at the expense of their own personal goals (which at least several of them had, which can be seen in Till's, Richard's and Flake's side projects, to name just one thing).
Related to that, and not saying that you (Snake) are in this case, but I will never understand people who are getting mad at Rammstein for this long waiting. They don't owe anyone anything, they didn't sign any contract with the fans claiming that they would produce this or that within this period. Nor was this anyway something we actually earned or so. Maybe if it were you it’d be different. Maybe you’d do it for this reason or that. Peace, whatever. But no band owes you your personal happy ending, especially not at the expense of their own personal goals (which at least several of them had, which can be seen in Till's, Richard's and Flake's side projects, to name just one thing).
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