Sales=Quality

[vlad321]

HappySqurriel said:

vlad321 said:

HappySqurriel said:
For the most part I agree that sales are the same as being high quality, but that the areas that high selling products demonstrate their quality may not be what people want to be rewarded ...

McDonalds fails to be high quality when you judge it against the standard of pretentious restaurants, but how many restaurants can deliver comparable quality and consistency of food at a similar price to McDonalds while handling the volume of customers the typical McDonalds can?

When you stop looking down at the world for choosing something you believe is low quality, and start looking for the high quality elements in success, you will start to see people's choices in a different light. If you were so motivated, you could potentially use this knowlege to improve products you believe are more worthy of success.

So you are saying we need more glittery vampires and downright braindead romances in our books/movies?

When it comes to entertainment it's very simple to make something successful, and as I already poitned out you just need to appeal to the lowest common denominator in some way. However that appeal to the lcd is what reduces the quality itself, hence what you are saying just simply can't happen.

No, that's not what I'm saying at all ...

I know very little about the Twilight series because I have avoided it to the best of my ability, but I highly doubt the things people hate about the series (glittery vampires) are what makes it a popular series. From the little I know about it, it seems like Twilight was very focused on the target audience and was written in a way that these readers would identify with the main character and draws them into a fantasy that was specifically catered to them. The demographic that was picked was very large, and the fantasy that was choosen was one that had broad appeal and wasn't well represented.

While I'm not saying that the literary quality of the works are similar, it really isn't that much different to what J.K. Rowling did with the Harry Potter series.

Certainly, there is probably far more to the success of Twilight than simply how it was targeted; but I couldn't say what it is with the little I know about it.

 

 

Something like McDonalds is much easier for me to talk about, and saying that every restaurant could learn a lot from McDonalds if they desire success doesn't mean that restaurants should start selling happy-meals.

That is more or less what I was refering to by saying a braindead romance in there. I also agree that it's what Harry Potter basically had as well. You also said it youself, it had braod appeal. Well that broad appeal is the problem. To have that broad appeal you shoot quality in the foot, and bury it.