The thing they want

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[–]NastyWetSmear 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

It's baffling how we came to this point.

Remakes are the most confusing thing, for me at least. Video games especially. You have fans built into your franchise. They already love the thing you own. They want more of it... Or, more specifically, they want the thing you've already made, but they want it updated with the latest graphics and voice acting and maybe some control tweaks and such. Essentially, you already have 50% of the work done - Same story, same dialog, same plot points and general game play, same items, same locations... All you need now is some voice actors, the programmers to redo these existing things with modern graphics and, if you're feeling adventurous, maybe flesh out some characters a little, add some side quests, you know, just a splash of spice...

... Then they hand out something that spits in the face of the original product, even sometimes going so far as to insult the players and the product itself, changing everything to the point where it's almost unrecognizable. Actual total plot and story changes. Maybe the one key thing that people who wanted the original again, only better, wouldn't want...

Obviously it's not about making money. They had people lined up to give them money. Even stuff like ESG investment only partially explains it, because while you obviously need to keep access to that investment money, you have to know that it's a death knell for your company to isolate, insult and upset the consumer of the product? We've seen it happen more than once, it isn't an unknown phenomenon. There has to be some element of "True Belief" at work.

It's really pretty maddening. Even a monkey throwing poop at a dart board would hit the bull's eye a couple of times a year.

[–]rodmanii 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

its because of the indoctrination, the retards who manage those companies are life long democrats that have passed for every brainwashing center the blue shits have establish, from primary school to college, they dont want to make money but to make a statement about how virtuos they are, if the company loses money or goes to shit, tough luck, CEO dont lose shit, they just move to the next democrat owned company to do the same again and again

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It does feel like a lot of them "Fail Upwards". Movies that lose millions? Don't worry, give the writers and directors another major franchise to work on! Stocks plummeting? No drama, vote the same board back in!

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

They own the central banks. They literally print money as they see fit. It is a war against white people. Nothing more, nothing less.

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Who owns the banks? Blackrock? Is this the Jewish "They"?

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That you think their names would be public shows how much you underestimate them.

They don't have jobs to go to. They spend their entire life scheming, with the best help money can buy. You are not going to get their names, addresses, and concrete proof of how they operate.

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, you still haven't told me who "They" is.

[–]Rah 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Take a look at a 95% loyal remake, Super Mario RPG. Its beautiful. Its loyal to the fanbase. But it does not generate as much revenue as being an ESG sellout. Thats the sad truth. Other companies make more money with the banks filling them with money and renegotiating their debt by accruing ESG score, product be damned.

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I don't think that's accurate. A lot of these disloyal remakes crash and burn or ruin franchises long term. Look at all this new Star Wars content being pumped out that barely gets any views on their streaming services, or the new Final Fantasy 7 Remake that massively undersold. If anything, I'd say the fear of a remake now harming the original content is what prevents people from even purchasing the honest ones.

[–]Rah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It does not matter if the franchise is destroyed as long as they sold it out and keep selling it out. Banks will pay. Content harm is secondary to loans and debt renegotiation. Companies know what they are doing and its a race to see just how much they can squander their intellectual property to the highest bidder.

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Okay, that's a slight pivot, but it returns to my original point: That's earning investment and loans by following the ESG guidelines, but that seems secondary when whole companies are closing down due to it. An example - Luminous Productions were shut down following their game, Forspoken, crashing and burning. The Rings Of Power got such low viewership, such negative reaction and so few people who started watching it will finish watching it that they've packed up the whole production and moved it out of New Zealand for whatever remaining seasons they are contracted to complete. ESG scores earning you loans to create new products is great, but when none of your products return a profit, why keep doing it?

As to the idea of them selling the property on? I don't see much evidence of that. Disney aren't selling Star Wars to someone to recoup the losses of making these dozens of shows that fail. Nobody is buying Snow White after they nearly released a film that was crashing and burning so hard they tried to CGI in Dwarves at the last second. Once these brands are tarnished, selling them on isn't going to cover the loss they made. There must be something else. "True Believers Of The Cause" is my first assumption?

[–]Rah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The people involved will stay in the sector and ruin other franchises. The companies will rebrand. Its too much of a gold mine to be left alone, the banks incentivize it too much.

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You keep saying this, but I keep pointing out that it isn't correct: There isn't a gold mine. There's no gold in this practice. Those franchises lose money, the companies lose money and even the largest ones are starting to suffer as a result, as we can see with Disney being called out for lying about their profits on these franchises at their earnings call, having battles over board positions and closing down whole sections of their parks that cost billions to create.

I understand that ESG ratings impact loans, but, one again, I point out that a loan option is no good if your company is gone. With this in mind: Why crash a company over this?

[–]Rah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The company is never gone. You dont seem to realize the scheme is deeper. There are thousands of zombie companies out there surviving on loans with little profit. They exist solely to secure a niche in the market. What makes you think the banks dont want to control the gaming industry by zombifying triple-A companies into making products they want? Stop being so naive.

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You sure said a lot of things there without actually saying anything. "Secure a niche in the market" is some of the most meaningless buzz language I think I've ever heard, as if owning a company that makes towels means there's no room for other companies to make towels, even though your towel company is bleeding money.

Look, I get it, you don't have a good answer to my question. That's totally cool. I don't either, that's why I asked it. Getting all "Don't be naïve" doesn't help. If your point is they are "True Believers", that's fine. That was one the original points I offered up.

[–]Titanic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All the more reason why going woke makes you broke

[–]CheeseWizard 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Accurate

[–]elonmusk7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I blame the gaming community for not boycotting companies that bowed to the demands of activists.