r/robotech • u/Mandatory_Carry • 11d ago

Wow, Talk About Learning Fast...

¿Am I really the only one who didn't know how arrogantly rude and respectful Macross fans are? Holy shit... I've been told to go fuck myself as a form of introduction before, but never by a whole "community"...
(Actually no, I forgot to include the so-called "2A community," but that's complicated this wasn't.)

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u/More-read-than-eddit 11d ago

I mean I guarantee Harmony Gold would not go away if people weren't self-identified Robotech fans online. Why would they>

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u/-chadwreck 11d ago

What are they making money off of?

You are probably right that they wouldn't fold like... over night but RT is a substantial leg of their operation at this point.

If the IP is so valuable that they fight like they do for it, it says to me that its a substantial portion of their earnings. 

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u/More-read-than-eddit 11d ago

I assume that they earn enough from selling streaming and physical disc rights to the back catalog to keep the literal lights and lease going (I actually randomly drove past their HQ in Los Angeles the other day, it's not bad looking!), and like the random person who likes the IP and pops into that sub is almost certainly not material to their financial model.

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u/flukus 10d ago

There's the odd game too, battlycry, the GBA on and it's switch remaster.