mrmichaelt wrote: ↑December 5th, 2020, 8:31 pmI'd love for a tie-in book or comic instead of a video game. Ghostbusters: The Video Game set the bar maybe too high for all games to come after it. I really enjoyed the Ghosts From Our Past book for ATC. I'd kill to see them do something similar like Egon's journal or logbook for Afterlife. Doesn't look like it's in the cards but IDW doing an adaption of Afterlife could have been neat.
I wouldn't be surprised if we see a reissue of
Tobin's Spirit Guide with the
Afterlife cover.
droidguy1119 wrote: ↑December 6th, 2020, 1:23 amThe other major issue here that the streaming giants haven't even attempted to resolve is the increasingly likely possibility that US households get frustrated by having to choose between so many streaming services.
This was something I was going to raise. We're already seeing some frustration from consumers who are finding the streaming/on-demand marketplace is getting more and more crowded, and less and less affordable.
The early days of Netflix worked because there was a lot of content in one place... Now that everyone wants a piece of the Netflix pie, and the studios are yanking back their properties to put on their own streaming services, it's breeding frustration with traditional/less online viewers.
...Like my family. We were frustrated that initially
Star Trek: Discovery was going to be a CBS All Access release rather than a traditional release like previous
Star Treks. Fortunately we were able to watch it when it was shared by Netflix, which my brother had.
And then you have the customers who have signed up to one service, but find that a show they were watching has emigrated to another, like
The Expanse which moved to Amazon after Netflix cancelled it. We were met with the option of missing it, or subscribing to Prime, which didn't offer much beyond
The Expanse to make the subscription cost justifiable.
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And what happens if the physical cinemas do die out... Do you end up having to purchase a yearly subscription to MGM, Sony, Paramount to see their latest films?
Because I'm not sure that model will cut it in the long term, because what happens if a studio has a year of lousy releases?
I like the
James Bond,
Star Wars,
Star Trek movies, along with a smorgasbord of one-off productions from a whole slew of studios. One of the appealing things about the current cinema model is that I can discover films I might not've expected to enjoy... I like going to the cinema despite how expensive it's gotten... But I wouldn't be prepared to pay regular subscriptions to multiple studios if I'm likely to only see a few films each year I actually enjoy.
Case in point: I
adore the
How to Train Your Dragon films and enjoy the first two
Shrek films. But
The Croods?
Madagascar?
Boss Baby? Hard pass.
The model may have to eventually evolve to something different, but after the year we've had, and the impact of the pandemic in the years to come? The consumer wallet might not be able to support all these TV streaming services, let alone the movie studios starting up their own options.
MikeyJ122 wrote: ↑December 6th, 2020, 8:55 am Bottom line, more money can be made via streaming than was EVER made in cinemas.
That's a pretty bold claim.