‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Tomb Raider’ To Be Spun off Under New Company After Embracer Chair Calls Its IP ‘Among The Most Undervalued in the Industry’
by darth_vader39
‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Tomb Raider’ To Be Spun off Under New Company After Embracer Chair Calls Its IP ‘Among The Most Undervalued in the Industry’
by darth_vader39
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Yes, yes! Squeeze them harder. Squeeze them more!
Fuck any concept of something new or exciting! The shareholders don’t like that!
SQUEEZE UNTIL EVERY LAST DROP HAS BEEN BLED OUT.
That just means they’ve not been milked dry yet for all its worth. They’ve started to ring out Tomb Raider. I imagine they’ll be doing the same once The Silmarillion gets closer to being fully realized.
I only watch the Rings stuff that Peter Jackson is involved with.
One wonders why Embracer bought all these only to sell them after just a few years. Has it pivoted to being an investment company now?
How these random shitty Swedish game publishers own Middle-earth Enterprises has always boggled my mind. One of the worst companies you could ever sell it to, bar Disney (who Tolkien hated with a passion anyway).
So long as Peter Jackson is involved in anything LoTR I’ll be there.
It is like movie studios yet have to learn the lessons that farmers have learned long ago: You have to rotate your crops and let a field lie fallow for it to recover occasionally. Otherwise you get dust bowls and famines.
Just let the Lord of the Rings lie down for a few years to a decade before remaking stuff or making new content.
Tomb Raider I thing has some more give to it. There have been 3 movies and 2 animated tv shows and the upcoming live action show on Amazon.
The big problem with Tomb Raider is that it doesn’t have any big characters other Lara Croft to focus on. So unless they do manage the shared universe with other games they have been trying, this is easily overdone.
I have high hopes for seeing [Sophie Turner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Turner) shooting dinosaurs and falling of cliffs in shorts, but these things can easily disappoint.
Embracer must be a tax scam. honestly the company’s entire existence is just 1 long game of bullshit. they bought the rights to tons of video games from defunct publishers and they barely release any products.
it really seems like 1 giant pump and dump scheme cause otherwise they are just woefully, and I mean WOEFULLY, unprepared to do any kind of business
Oh eff. He clearly doesn’t mean valued but monetized and nothing good comes from that.