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What business model is this? Give gamers blue balls and then wait until they inevitably ram down your door with money trucks?
by PavlovsCat 14y ago
What business model is this? Give gamers blue balls and then wait until they inevitably ram down your door with money trucks?
- smoyer 14y agoSounds like a good plan to me! I'd just like to add that the first rule of Monkey Island 3a is that you don't talk about Monkey Island 3a. Shhhhhhhhh!
- cskau 14y agoYou plant the seed for the violent revolt of rampaging gamers that will ultimately see Disney surrender the Monkey Island IP to restore global peace. Then you make a game.
- fusiongyro 14y agoDisney's takeaway from a "violent revolt of rampaging gamers" will be that this IP is tremendously valuable, which is probably the opposite impression you should be cultivating if you want to buy it from them at a low enough price to make third-party development itself practical.
- okamiueru 14y agoIf he wanted to put the effort and time to make this game, why would it have to use the Monkey Island IP? I think that any new game with same quality, the humor and mechanics, but in a different setting (or heck, just a different name!) would still be loved.
- rrreese 14y agoUsing existing IP is a lot safer, and will generate more sales, even if otherwise the games are the same. There are a lot of people who played Monkey island in their youth and are nostalgic for it, but who don't follow the latest game news and wouldn't auto buy a game without the IP. Yes it could be successful, but that the Monkey Island name it would be more so. See for example the success of every new Civ game compared to the success of other strategy games.
- sgt 14y agoLet's just hope Disney goes along with this!
- Svip 14y agoHe has built an engine that is powered by gamers' frustration over things they can never have.