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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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
