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Post by buckmana on May 11, 2016 8:58:49 GMT -5
No more Disney InfinityI am quite annoyed by this. I was hoping they would have many more figure releases to come, as my collection of Disney/Marvel DI figures is not yet complete. I was especially hoping that they would make some Kim Possible figures in time. I really wanted a Kim DI figure!Ron and Shego would also have been nice additions to my collection. But with the game going away, obviously, it is not going to happen. According to the info I researched, the reason the game is being closed down is greed, pure and simple. They made money, but not all the money, so the corporate idiots said get rid of it. I am hoping that the negative response from the Disney fanbase will convince the company to change it's mind and bring the game back to active status. If any campaigns get organized to petition the company, I would like it if we could all participate in them.
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Post by christhecynic on May 11, 2016 11:32:18 GMT -5
Particularly annoying since at least one of the Kim Possible creators (never officially stated which one) was in talks with the Disney Infinity people. And that's how it was stated. Kim Possible creator, not one of the other projects they worked on together
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Post by christhecynic on May 11, 2016 11:49:47 GMT -5
It's actually really common for companies to close down profitable things on the grounds that they're not profitable enough.
Notice how the newspaper industry has been dying off? Here's what they leave out of the whole death of the newspaper narrative: most of the papers that have been shut down were making a profit. The problem was that they weren't their own companies so it wasn't up to them whether they'd stay in business. They belonged to much larger national and international chains and those chains decided that even though the papers were making money, they weren't making enough.
My dad's talked my entire life about a local conference center that was shut down, in spite of being incredibly successful, because someone did the math and discovered that they could make a fraction of a percent more money every year if they laid everyone off, bulldozed the place, and made it into a parking lot. (The lot made a lot less money gross, but it only had one employee so it had a higher net. By a fraction of one percent.)
It happens in all industries. It's part of the system we have.
If you think that your job is to provide goods and/or services then making money takes a back seat. As long as you break even you can keep on getting paid while providing your goods and/or services. You'd never shutter something that's profitable unless you thought there was something wrong with what it was making.
If, on the other hand, you think your job is to make money then the goods and/or services take the back seat. You'll close a profitable division in a heartbeat if you think you can put the money that would have gone to that into a project that will have a bigger return on investment.
For a long time, and increasingly so, the culture has adopted the second mindset more than the first. It's not enough to make money, you have to make the most possible money. Which means that everything is up for being cut if the powers that be can find something with a bigger ROI.
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Post by buckmana on May 11, 2016 16:03:00 GMT -5
That sounds about right here. Disney Infinity was owned by an international corporation and they've just made the decision to shut it down. Judging from the DI fanbase opinions, they were highly loyal, there's no way that cannot backfire. Here is a petition. I got some more info that is even more troubling. The reason for shutting down Disney Infinity is because two of their major divisions are losing money. Basically, they're taking the money from a successful division and using it to keep the failed ventures afloat. The divisions that lost money are Shanghai Disneyworld and the department that produces Disney tv shows. I am not surprised in the slightest about that second one, they've been going downhill ever since Kim Possible ended.
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Post by KPRS4ever on May 19, 2016 21:27:44 GMT -5
Aw man! That is so sad! I was really excited for a Kim DI figure as well!
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