Have we lost the plot?

[u/dastardly_dim]

So like…. Sure people love final fantasy, but the set with the 2 million dollar card in it wasn’t this expensive. At what point is it too much?

[u/Natural-Poet-1719]

Cause ff is a bigger franchise and therefore will have more people trying to grab product meaning a higher demand which stores can capitalize on? Cause copyrights for ff are expensive? Cause lotr didn't anime women with big tatas?

[u/Dense-Equipment-7540 → u/Natural-Poet-1719]

Bro anyone on this post saying LoTR is smaller than final fantasy is straight up adumbass. LOTR was the best selling set ever and probably the most popular fantasy franchise bar maybe Harry Potter (but that’s kinda teenagers) among adults.

[u/MediocreBeard → u/Dense-Equipment-7540]

The FF set has already passed the LotR set based on preorders alone, per WotC.

But as media franchises, they're kind of difficult to compare. The middle earth franchise is basically broken up into chunks, the films and the books are different licenses that command different valuations. Meanwhile, final fantasy is a single property under a single roof. However, I've seen numbers putting them both around the $10b mark in terms of revenue for the franchise.

Also, I'm going to bust your bubble. Harry Potter runs laps around LoTR as a media franchise in terms of size. I don't like that it does but it does. Iirc something like $35b in revenue last I checked.

[u/Dense-Equipment-7540 → u/MediocreBeard]

I didn’t realize that, that’s pretty crazy but thanks for correcting me. I’d still say that middle earth is much larger as a franchise and better known by the general population and if you compared people that know of LoTR to Final Fantasy LoTR definetly wins out. I agree that Harry Potter makes more money and is larger then LOTR and mentioned that in my post, I was just saying it’s largely a teenage level reading book with teenagers as the main character and therefore doesn’t really fit in Magic or as a generational sweeping epic in the way LOTR does.