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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8742232" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>As much as I think it would have been nice to have a book tie-in... I don't think the way that the game industry and movie industry do their businesses would allow for something that neatly tied up in a bow. Any game book WotC would write will have probably an 18 month journey from conception to release. Movies can have anywhere from like 6 months to 3 years of pre-production, production, and post-production to get it ready (especially effect-laden films)... and even upon completion a movie studio will slot the film into their schedule whenever they have space and whenever they think it should go. And WotC has no control over that.</p><p></p><p>Sure WotC could have tried to produce an <em>Honor Among Thieves</em> tie-in game to be released right around the film's release... whenever they <em>thought</em> the studio would put it into theaters... but what if the movie ended up testing poorly and the studio decided to bump it back in their schedule 6 months in order to do re-shoots? Would WotC be able to rearrange their production, printing, and distribution to match? Not likely. In that case what would probably have happened was that the <em>Honor Among Thieves</em> tie-in game book would get released-- going over a whole bunch of stuff in the game that no one knew it was referencing because there was no movie to connect it to-- and then 6 to 12 months later when the movie finally was released the game was already on the shelves and no one cared anymore.</p><p></p><p>In point of fact... I think WotC's better off waiting to see how <em>Honor Among Thieves </em>actually does in the theater before deciding to do a tie-in product. Because if the film does huge numbers... people will snatch up the game even if it gets released 6 to 12 months after the film's release. And WotC would have a much better idea after the fact of the public's desire for a game tie-in to make them feel good about spending the money and time to create one. That wouldn't be the case if they tried to do a simultaneous-ish release with the film upon initial release.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8742232, member: 7006"] As much as I think it would have been nice to have a book tie-in... I don't think the way that the game industry and movie industry do their businesses would allow for something that neatly tied up in a bow. Any game book WotC would write will have probably an 18 month journey from conception to release. Movies can have anywhere from like 6 months to 3 years of pre-production, production, and post-production to get it ready (especially effect-laden films)... and even upon completion a movie studio will slot the film into their schedule whenever they have space and whenever they think it should go. And WotC has no control over that. Sure WotC could have tried to produce an [I]Honor Among Thieves[/I] tie-in game to be released right around the film's release... whenever they [I]thought[/I] the studio would put it into theaters... but what if the movie ended up testing poorly and the studio decided to bump it back in their schedule 6 months in order to do re-shoots? Would WotC be able to rearrange their production, printing, and distribution to match? Not likely. In that case what would probably have happened was that the [I]Honor Among Thieves[/I] tie-in game book would get released-- going over a whole bunch of stuff in the game that no one knew it was referencing because there was no movie to connect it to-- and then 6 to 12 months later when the movie finally was released the game was already on the shelves and no one cared anymore. In point of fact... I think WotC's better off waiting to see how [I]Honor Among Thieves [/I]actually does in the theater before deciding to do a tie-in product. Because if the film does huge numbers... people will snatch up the game even if it gets released 6 to 12 months after the film's release. And WotC would have a much better idea after the fact of the public's desire for a game tie-in to make them feel good about spending the money and time to create one. That wouldn't be the case if they tried to do a simultaneous-ish release with the film upon initial release. [/QUOTE]
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