JulieYBM wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:48 am
Matches Malone wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:17 am
JulieYBM wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:12 amYou've just described why capitalism sucks balls.
If you were working an 8 hour job every day, be it as a writer, teacher, doctor, etc., would you do it for free ? Probably not, which is a part of capitalism, you use a specific skill you have to make money.
When it comes to SsjG and DB as a whole, Toriyama makes his decisions based on what he thinks will result in a financially successful product, just as any writer currently working does. I haven't agreed with most of the decisions made in regards to modern DB, but I can't fully blame Toriyama for it, as that's not only what fans are paying for, but demanding as well.
I worked retailed for five years, 40 hours a week, destroying my body and mind, all for wages too small to move out on my own and take care of my health. Why? Because capitalism. The family I worked for was worth over $100,000,000,000 but they couldn't pay their essential workers enough money to live comfortably, despite working a ridiculously high number of hours? Bullshit. If the workers had control over the corporation the profits would be going to us, not overpaid executives that didn't actually generate the profits. Capitalism is feudalism dressed up in flowery words.
New transformations are created because they sell merchandise. Merchandise earns earn corporations profits--money greater than the amount they spent on production of said merchandise. The profits of a corporation go toward making the executives live ridiculously comfortable lives while the workers--the people who actually generated those profits--live lives of hardship and have no democratic power to instead take the profits for themselves. Capitalism is about greed and allowing the wealthy to amass all of the world's money. Such a system means the very wealthy will rely on the same intellectual property constantly to produce more profits, creative will power be damned.
I too worked retail. I too know it’s shit and underpaid. But without capitalism there would be no innovation. Heck, without capitalism there wouldn’t even be Dragon Ball.
Corporations are born with the goal of making money. They are financed by people who want to make money.
The family you worked for were rewarded due to the risks they faced and their entrepreneurial abilIty to create a big multinational which employs thousands of people possibly all over the world too (I assume, considering you said they were worth more than 100 billions in total). They deserve being richer than average people. Sorry but this is the hard cold truth.
Now if we have to talk about how it’s incredibly unjust for many wealthy people to be rich just because they inherited their money and not because of their hardwork and perseverance, then I agree. But it’s also true that (according to statistics) around 70% of the world’s millionaires are self-made.
I would also agree how the government, in the mixed economy system, should at least guarantee that the minimum wage be proportionate to the cost of living of the city you are working in, to ensure even the lowest wage can guarantee a decent living.
But I would also like to remind you that, especially nowadays, for people living in advanced economy countries (for sure those living in the US or in any EU country, but in Japan too of course) who have access to an internet connection, knowledge is free.
And with enough knowledge it’s not impossible to put money through work and enjoy the magic of compound interest. And, guess what, those who have become richest are historically those who have invested in the equity market. The same market where people can buy fractions of companies such as Toei Animation and Bandai Namco. And if you buy even a share of those companies, you are in fact a shareholder and thus expect the company to be profitable.
Even then, while toys surely sell and new forms are surely more attractive both to fans and to those who just like to collect them, ultimately those toys sell because of the franchise behind it. New Dragon Ball toys nowadays sell so much not because they are “X form Goku” but because Dragon Ball Super has been so popular that demand for new DB toys in general has improved. I really don’t think the difference in Bandai Namco’s revenues would have been that big if Dragon Ball Super actually had less forms.
Heck before Ultra Instinct was introduced Super really only had Kaioken as the only new power-up above blue for Goku, and SSG and Blue already were old stuff as they debuted in the movies. Yet that didn’t stop Super from being incredibly popular.
Sorry for having gone off-topic. I will delete this message if it’s too political or off-topic (or will have no problems if some moderator decides to delete it).
But I think that this is not entirely off-topic, as the essence is that new transformations aren’t being made to sell toys but because they know fans will like them and thus support the show more, talk about it online and on Twitter, make DB trend and thus increase its popularity. Every show wants to be more popular with its fanbase, and in DB fans like to see new forms and that’s what they get. Fans also like to see Broly and Gogeta and that’s why they made it to the latest movie.
Also the matter of fact is that all this stuff is way more complex than “just make new form and profit”.
Nowadays more than toys I bet the gachas games such as Legends and Dokkan Battle are those which truly profit from new forms. While other games like Xenoverse, FighterZ and Kakarot are breaking all the records for DB games due to the popularity of Super which has in turn increased demand for Dragon Ball in general.
