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The power of brand recognition
Garbage, even garbage with brand recognition, doesn't always ensure sales. Plenty of licensed tie-ins of movies and books crash and burn because they suck. That game also sucks, but I suppose there was some sort of wagon-circling massed treat defense to own the wokes or whatever.
I still think the longterm effect of this event has negatively harmed the franchise and jk. You see people talk about it often, how they've put their books away, how they now find it difficult to enjoy the franchise and not think about those things whenever they hear about it.
The chuds might circle the wagons to do damage mitigation but they won't last, and the damage will play out. That little seed planted in the hearts of every lib grows over time.
I think it's more of a spore than a seed, but the point stands.
My personal tinfoil hat theory is that this game was meant as a way to test if the Harry Potter franchise was still commercially viable, like Shadows of the Empire was for the Star Wars franchise in the 90s (except that one has been confirmed, of course). It's speculation, of course, but considering how badly the second Fantastic Beasts movie did, it'd make sense for them to go after the millennial nostalgia market.
If "Ready Player One" was more successful as a movie, I think late Xer-early millennial nostalgia of the "remember this? Remember that?!" bazinga kind would have stuck around like a particularly stubborn wart even moreso than it is now.
I haven't seen the movie, but I've read parts of the book, and it's incredibly funny to me that they had to make the references more recent because the people who'd be nostalgic for 80s pop culture were too old when the movie came out.
I saw the book at the store and thought the cover looked neat, so I picked it up to skim a few pages. Holy fuck was the writing bad. I chuckled and threw it back on the shelf.
I was taken completely by surprise to later learn it was a bestseller and being made into a movie. "50 Shades of Grey" for 30-somethings.
Looking back, it's easy to see why it was a hit: it was slop for slop hogs. It said "what if bibeo bame, and knowing a lot of useless bibeo bame and nostalgia trivia means you eventually win the sex trophy and become the billionaire ruler of a dying planet?"
I saw Overwatch waifu shit in the trailers and my lack of interest somehow found even more lack of interest.
There's the weird chapter intro about masturbation or the one scene where they rehearse line-for-line a Monty python movie.
Reddit, the novel. Then Reddit, the movie.
The movie removes these scenes and is better than the book, which is not hard. I would not call it good.
The sequel book is worse than both though. It's horrifying, creepy, loaded with narcissistic excess and "poor me I'm too awesome, the poors are jealous NPCs" jagoff moments, lots of mind control/manipulation sex predator antics shown as "good", and has a "happy ending" that's very
coded.
I wonder if either could be worth a dunk read
I'd have a hard time doing it. There's a few online reviews, but even in summary, the sequel's a fucking creepy read.
Hated that movie
Because I needed to know for sure if I belong in Huffledorf or Slitherpuff.
It's just as important as knowing where your power meter stands in relation to Glub Shitto in the Star War.
that's a crucial new mechanic in the new game
Too many "MY CHILDHOOD" g*mers
They saw the thing and they clapped.
Arf arf arf arf
Dw I'm pretty sure it fell off :)
I wonder how many of those buyers were, ironically, "virtue signaling" their devotion and loyalty to their nostalgia treat.