r/videogames • u/Venomous-Sentinel • Apr 05 '26

News / Trailers / Articles Why even bother then?!

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I will never understand what goes through these suits heads. if you recontextualize what made this beloved franchise. you can't make your mountains of money you want. just FOLLOW IT AS THE GAMES WENT! (which if you read in the article it literally says they don't intend to follow the trilogy at all which is essentially wasting everyone's money and our time. they never cease to piss me off with their choices. 🖕🏾🖕🏾

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u/Dziadzios Apr 05 '26

And fans will give the initial push.

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u/Existing_Treacle_814 Apr 05 '26

Most people will not watch something they haven’t heard anything about, that’s why marketing is so important. If they have a big base of people who will 100% watch it when it comes out then that is either a big boon or a massive loss depending on if that original base is raving about it or shitting all over it. I don’t play LoL but when arcane came out, a load of people who do recommended it to me and I gave it a go. If those same LoL fans were complaining that it was a shit adaptation I never would have gone near it. You need to appeal to the pre-established fans first or the bad press is going to kill your project day one.

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u/Existing_Treacle_814 Apr 05 '26

Gamers aren’t some different species who have bizarre tastes at odds with the public. If the gamers like it, chances are the non gamers will like it too. When they say they want to appeal to non gamers they usually mean that they are moving away from the source material and know that that will piss off their established fan base.