Ignore my avatar for a second (if it's possible)
Look past your prejudiced, and let me ask you a question, or rather I'll give you something to question.
(I'm not saying change is bad, but man sometimes it makes me wonder, is creativeness dead?)
Thoughts on the matter?
Look past your prejudiced, and let me ask you a question, or rather I'll give you something to question.
A company hires a team of creative consultants for a project, said project met huge success, the creative team has developed some iconic main characters beloved by the hundreds, everything is fine in corporation world, the money keeps rolling in.
Now, the creative team creates other characters inhabiting the world of there success (let's call these background characters[BS for short]), one of these BC's get a huge following, a fan-base of epic proportion, does this affect marketing? In a small amount, nothing major.
Now, this BC is supposed to be killed off, for no other reason that it is an imperfect being in an otherwise perfect "universe".
(I could go into how intolerant and "such and such" this is, but that is a debate for another time)
Now the kicker...
I can comprehend, even understand the implications of creative control, franchise, and brand... Sure a company has first and last say about there "idea", but at the same time, they have hired this team of creative minds for a reason... to re-boot a dead franchise (to flog a dead horse, pardon the pun), and now they want to "milk the cow" and slaughter it at the same time.
Something doesn't ring right to me in this matter. My real question is somewhat rhetorical in nature; "Why does the big companies keep on doing this?"
When ever the money starts to really roll in, they start to change, decide, and effectively kill there own brand (sometimes slow, sometimes at alarming speed) by making changes that work against there market targets.
Now, the creative team creates other characters inhabiting the world of there success (let's call these background characters[BS for short]), one of these BC's get a huge following, a fan-base of epic proportion, does this affect marketing? In a small amount, nothing major.
Now, this BC is supposed to be killed off, for no other reason that it is an imperfect being in an otherwise perfect "universe".
(I could go into how intolerant and "such and such" this is, but that is a debate for another time)
Now the kicker...
I can comprehend, even understand the implications of creative control, franchise, and brand... Sure a company has first and last say about there "idea", but at the same time, they have hired this team of creative minds for a reason... to re-boot a dead franchise (to flog a dead horse, pardon the pun), and now they want to "milk the cow" and slaughter it at the same time.
Something doesn't ring right to me in this matter. My real question is somewhat rhetorical in nature; "Why does the big companies keep on doing this?"
When ever the money starts to really roll in, they start to change, decide, and effectively kill there own brand (sometimes slow, sometimes at alarming speed) by making changes that work against there market targets.
(I'm not saying change is bad, but man sometimes it makes me wonder, is creativeness dead?)
Thoughts on the matter?
To keep this tread from flame please keep all MLP related arguments in spoilers, thank you.
If you haven't already sniffed it out, there are rumors about some huge changes in SE4. The one thing that caught my attention was the fact that they are killing of my beloved Derpy Hooves, and that made my brain work.
If you haven't already sniffed it out, there are rumors about some huge changes in SE4. The one thing that caught my attention was the fact that they are killing of my beloved Derpy Hooves, and that made my brain work.
