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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6344391" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Changing demographics will probably alter the bottom line of the biz...but that will take a long time.</p><p></p><p>However, there's another issue he's raising. If you keep giving people in your target audience what they ask for and taking it away, or in some way fail to commit to a path, you make them gunshy. Why spend your time, your money and emotionally invest in a character with an obvious virtual expiration date on it?</p><p></p><p>My cousin went through this in a different arena. Post-Katrina, he was working here doing the same job he did in New Orleans. However, all the time he was here, he talked about moving home. He also complained about not getting raises at the same rate as other new hires, despite working just as hard. The problem was that his pining for NOLA got back to his supervisors: they had no reason give raises to someone who was vocally talking about leaving when they could promote those more committed to the job...or at least, less obviously working with one foot out the door.</p><p></p><p>So when you have characters recast with different genders, races, or species, history tells us that those changes will be temporary. You're catering to a portion of your audience, yes, but with a gimped concept. That's going to temper the fanbase's reaction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 6344391, member: 19675"] Changing demographics will probably alter the bottom line of the biz...but that will take a long time. However, there's another issue he's raising. If you keep giving people in your target audience what they ask for and taking it away, or in some way fail to commit to a path, you make them gunshy. Why spend your time, your money and emotionally invest in a character with an obvious virtual expiration date on it? My cousin went through this in a different arena. Post-Katrina, he was working here doing the same job he did in New Orleans. However, all the time he was here, he talked about moving home. He also complained about not getting raises at the same rate as other new hires, despite working just as hard. The problem was that his pining for NOLA got back to his supervisors: they had no reason give raises to someone who was vocally talking about leaving when they could promote those more committed to the job...or at least, less obviously working with one foot out the door. So when you have characters recast with different genders, races, or species, history tells us that those changes will be temporary. You're catering to a portion of your audience, yes, but with a gimped concept. That's going to temper the fanbase's reaction. [/QUOTE]
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