Well, for me it was a little bit of both?
If it wasn't for NT (this thread in particular, and then the high end thread) I would've been clueless about what these were. Had an opportunity to cop locally (here in Manila), so I checked it out.
The materials on the arena are nothing short of what you'd expect from a shoe that costs so much. It's a better long run purchase compared to recent Jordan retros, and it's really hard to maintain wearability of certain shoes (basically 2's to 9's) here in my country, being humid and all.
Also.... the scene down here is getting out of hand. Everything is over saturated and every one is a reseller. Areneas were a nice change. Hell, anything other than Jordans was a nice change.