superstition
First Post
Corporate executive: I liked what I read from you in the forum. You seem like a smart cookie.
Me: I am, thank you.
Corporate executive: How would you like to lead a team to create your own custom tabletop strategic RPG, inspired by D&D?
Me: Fine, as long as you’re okay with getting a product that no one will play.
Corporate executive: Well, that could be due to two possibilities. A) It would be because you made a boring product. B) Because you copied an existing game, say D&D, so much that it made the product seem boring. Oh, I guess there’s just one possibility then. Oh, yes, there’s C. Would you put your heart and soul into developing this game?
Me: Of course.
Corporate executive: Then it can’t be a failure, even if no one plays it.
——————— in reality ———————
Corporate executive 1: Remakes and regurgitations are all the rage lately. Did you actually like The Middle? Did you think it was funny?
Corporate executive 2: No, of course it wasn’t funny. It wasn’t supposed to be funny. It was supposed to be cheap. It was a total ripoff of Malcolm in the Middle and it was awful by comparison. But, it was a step above Ice Road Truckers and reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Corporate executive 3: Hey, I loved that show.
Corporate executive 2: You don’t watch TV anymore do you?
Corporate executive 3: Um, no… not really. Not since 1995 or so.
Corporate executive 1: Which means?
Corporate executive 2: It’s been rerun to death. Don’t you two know anything about television?
Corporate executive 1: Should we?
Corporate executive 3: I have an XBox that I’ve never unpacked. A gift from me mum.
Corporate executive 1: Back to remakes. I hear D&D is doing nicely lately. Any plans to make a knockoff of it?
Corporate executive 2: Let’s make it as similar as possible. The CCG failed but only because we didn’t make it enough like MtG. Innovation = pain.
Corporate executives 1 & 3: Yes. Innovation = pain.
Me: I am, thank you.
Corporate executive: How would you like to lead a team to create your own custom tabletop strategic RPG, inspired by D&D?
Me: Fine, as long as you’re okay with getting a product that no one will play.
Corporate executive: Well, that could be due to two possibilities. A) It would be because you made a boring product. B) Because you copied an existing game, say D&D, so much that it made the product seem boring. Oh, I guess there’s just one possibility then. Oh, yes, there’s C. Would you put your heart and soul into developing this game?
Me: Of course.
Corporate executive: Then it can’t be a failure, even if no one plays it.
——————— in reality ———————
Corporate executive 1: Remakes and regurgitations are all the rage lately. Did you actually like The Middle? Did you think it was funny?
Corporate executive 2: No, of course it wasn’t funny. It wasn’t supposed to be funny. It was supposed to be cheap. It was a total ripoff of Malcolm in the Middle and it was awful by comparison. But, it was a step above Ice Road Truckers and reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Corporate executive 3: Hey, I loved that show.
Corporate executive 2: You don’t watch TV anymore do you?
Corporate executive 3: Um, no… not really. Not since 1995 or so.
Corporate executive 1: Which means?
Corporate executive 2: It’s been rerun to death. Don’t you two know anything about television?
Corporate executive 1: Should we?
Corporate executive 3: I have an XBox that I’ve never unpacked. A gift from me mum.
Corporate executive 1: Back to remakes. I hear D&D is doing nicely lately. Any plans to make a knockoff of it?
Corporate executive 2: Let’s make it as similar as possible. The CCG failed but only because we didn’t make it enough like MtG. Innovation = pain.
Corporate executives 1 & 3: Yes. Innovation = pain.
