Company spends money on film that turns out to be bad. People wasting their lives doing nothing of value on the Internet complain. News at 11.

Wouldn't matter if it's bad, could be a good film and it's still a waste of money. Basically our money, us the users. They are supposed to take a certain amount of the money and make content more so than they are even doing I would say cause they are making insane profits but it's where they put they money here that's so shocking, they could have put three new decently HBO level production, hour long 10 episode shows up on the site for this level of investment with decent actors, Maniac comes to mind, three of something akin to that. That's 30 hours of content that would justify the massively increased cost of a Netflix account. It's absolutely wasteful no matter how you look at it but especially on a script so weak that barely touches on the most interesting part, the robot war.  

Adolesense is the best from Netflix in a long while, something that hit me emotionally and kept me punched in the gut long, long after its 4 hours but if I seen they had spent 320 million on it I'd be just as shocked. 

Wait. Is there there an actual paper back or is it all a visual novel, no reading like? I see it's I Podcast form on audible too. 

It's a hardback graphic novel (so text and pictures, in physical format); all of his books are like that. I wouldn't use the phrase visual novel to describe it because that implies the 'video game' genre.

Basically everyone has Netflix is how, This movie cos them about 3 days worth of revenue. 

Indeed it does imply the genre, I find it easier to understand what Manga and comics are but I have a heard time figuring out what this book is. I'm very much interested though, the visuals in the opening montage of the film are actually stellar and the premise is really interesting, despite it being goofy in a good way. Pictures I've seen from the book look very gray however. Tag me when your done with it and let me know if it details the war, I'd def grab it, it's selling for over 30 euro now but I bet there'll be cuts as I suspect they are banking on the film brining in sales. 

300 million users a month. They are making so much profit they should have quality TV and films up weekly instead of dumping 320 million on a once off. 

It's a lot easier to spend money than to raise talent, see MS ;)

This is what we get with subscriptions. The risk is on the subscriber now instead of the production company. It used to be the problem of the production company when a movie or show flopped, keeping budgets realistic. Now it's simply passed on to the subscriber, either by raising the subscription cost or less new content.

That's the future of Gamepass as well, risk pushed on to the subscriber. Flops (and polish) don't matter as much to the publisher anymore, quality goes down.

It's not just Netflix, Amazon spend over a Billion on Rings of Power and it sucked, pissing all over the lore. The idea to attract / keep customers is to make things shiny, kinda like the games industry which ground itself into a corner with escalating budgets and $70 game prices.

Concord being the prime example where chasing subscription/mau money fails. In Concord's case, mau / 'whale' money. Which is sort of the same thing as subscriptions, FTP survives on mau, people regularly spending money on it. Subscriptions are a safer form for publishers, putting all the risk on the subscriber. (And the price and subsequent flop of Concord no doubt contributes to higher PSN prices, so also covered by subscription money)



And on the opposite end you have indies, which can only survive on making quality products that people actually want.

I doubt it'll be anytime soon - I have over 100 books on my reading list xD

The original illustrations give you an eerie feeling of dread. Haunting. Lost civilization, technological horror, that kind of stuff. Really stirs up the imagination.
Of course they made it goofy, of course.