So you really believe that the executives at Sony and Marvel, the international multimedia conglomerate known for their 15+ year long term carefully planned movie universe, was able to draft up a contract and approve a decision that allowed another third party company from a completely different cultural background who has never worked with Sony or these characters before to have free reign over their most profitable license? And also that company was able to have brand new art designs complete with fully functional 3D models in addition to passing a global, multi-corporation approval process?
I don't believe it. 10 years of forsight is the most basic and standard approach for these guys. The current Marvel empire was founded on planning ahead.
Iirc, Tokon was their super secret project they had been hinting at for the past ~10 years. This result is likely more cuz Strive wasn't supposed to live for 6 seasons and a movie, but here we are.
Friendly reminder that Korea invented and perfected micro-transactions. MapleStory has done more damage to both worldwide gaming and Korean game devs than anything else could ever hope to.
It's worse. This is like the restaurant across the street, a company that is completely unaffiliated with me and even my industry, is now running a lunch promotion that includes advertising something for my business which I did not approve and do not sell.
If a human being did this, it would be so unbelievably grossly obviously illegal it wouldn't even have to go to court. It's obvious and blatant fraud. Lying on this level is like so unbelievably blasphemous I would go so far as to say that this is uncivilized wild animal behavior that far precedes modern copyright/property laws, having been frowned upon in almost every society since the dawn of civilization.
Classic online community+fake capitalism. One person has a better idea, better marketing, better sales, and has figured out a way to take the entire system into a new era. Then everyone else gets butthurt that they couldn't come up with a creative idea, and they can't lazily keep up anymore so they change the rules to ban the only person that is actually serious about trying to advance their joke of a platform.
Fuuuuuuuuck I was about to blindly post "I'll bet 10 grand it was a Boeing." Ofc it's a Boeing rofl. Look guys the Boeing shareholder meeting is coming to town 🎪🤡 🐘🤡🎩!!!
I actually cannot imagine being an engineer and willingly taking a job at Boeing. "Yeah so I paid for my degree and don't actually have any engineering skills. Perfect you're hired."
Yeah I don't really see the problem with professionals having a platform with which they can reach a wide audience while avoiding the need for corporate or gubernatorial oversight to monetarily filter their scripts/opinions/programming.
Google lost the high ground when AI generated Joe Rogan was blatantly selling crypto scams on YouTube. Advertisers don't even care about the quality of the advertisements, every single industry that has used advertisement as its primary foundation always becomes a group of crooks living in a cataclysmic house of cards.
Pay only for products or for services. If no payment option exists to receive that product or service - and that product or service alone with no extra baggage/strings attached - then you must assume you're being scammed.
So you really believe that the executives at Sony and Marvel, the international multimedia conglomerate known for their 15+ year long term carefully planned movie universe, was able to draft up a contract and approve a decision that allowed another third party company from a completely different cultural background who has never worked with Sony or these characters before to have free reign over their most profitable license? And also that company was able to have brand new art designs complete with fully functional 3D models in addition to passing a global, multi-corporation approval process?
I don't believe it. 10 years of forsight is the most basic and standard approach for these guys. The current Marvel empire was founded on planning ahead.