“We want to broaden the appeal to bring more people into the universe so when we make more content tangentially related to the IP more people watch them.”
It’s step 2 of the enshittification steps for media companies. Step 3 is blaming the fans when they say they don’t like the new stuff because it’s totally different from what they loved.
I’m surprised it’s not a thing for this. Games Workshop is generally pretty protective of their IP. They license it out like crazy, but generally in pretty restricted bits unless you prove some level of respect.
The people who pay to use the IP put up so much money that it has to be crowd sourced among a few rich people/orgs. The money doesn’t care about the property, only the opportunity to leverage this into more money. They are paying for an opportunity.
With this opportunity they make a product that uses the nouns of the source material with varying levels of concern for the output. Not all money is the same and some care about the deliverable more than others. Compare Sony comic book movies to Disney and you can see what having a big comics nerd like Feige can do to keep it true to the material while keeping the content new.
Netflix didn’t care about what fans consider truth. They wanted content for their catalogue. Most makers of media don’t care about what they make as long as it’s popular and any lawsuits don’t drain the gains.
Yeah but those people are fucking morons with more money than sense. I don’t think they will ever learn the lesson because they keep making the same dipshit fucking mistake over and over. It’s starting to feel like it’s deliberate how almost every single adaptation they do is trash that pisses off the established fans, like they don’t want to do an adaptation so they fuck it up on purpose just to fuck the fans while they get the one mediocre cash grab, if they make money at all. If it was really about the money they would learn the lesson from the few really successful adaptations.
How is this not literally in the contract when working with q specific IP?
“We want to broaden the appeal to bring more people into the universe so when we make more content tangentially related to the IP more people watch them.”
It’s step 2 of the enshittification steps for media companies. Step 3 is blaming the fans when they say they don’t like the new stuff because it’s totally different from what they loved.
Games Workshop is really good at doing 2 and 3, they destroyed an entire setting and product line doing it.
Excuse you.
They destroyed several different product lines.
Seeking a mythical “wider, modern audience” rather than appealing to the core fans.
It is an excellent strategy to alienate everyone and tank an IPs value, to be used as a tax write-off.
I’m surprised it’s not a thing for this. Games Workshop is generally pretty protective of their IP. They license it out like crazy, but generally in pretty restricted bits unless you prove some level of respect.
The people who pay to use the IP put up so much money that it has to be crowd sourced among a few rich people/orgs. The money doesn’t care about the property, only the opportunity to leverage this into more money. They are paying for an opportunity.
With this opportunity they make a product that uses the nouns of the source material with varying levels of concern for the output. Not all money is the same and some care about the deliverable more than others. Compare Sony comic book movies to Disney and you can see what having a big comics nerd like Feige can do to keep it true to the material while keeping the content new.
Netflix didn’t care about what fans consider truth. They wanted content for their catalogue. Most makers of media don’t care about what they make as long as it’s popular and any lawsuits don’t drain the gains.
Yeah but those people are fucking morons with more money than sense. I don’t think they will ever learn the lesson because they keep making the same dipshit fucking mistake over and over. It’s starting to feel like it’s deliberate how almost every single adaptation they do is trash that pisses off the established fans, like they don’t want to do an adaptation so they fuck it up on purpose just to fuck the fans while they get the one mediocre cash grab, if they make money at all. If it was really about the money they would learn the lesson from the few really successful adaptations.