RWBY - The Hindenburg on which Rooster Teeth rests its hopes, dreams and future

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SherlockMexicano said:
You make some good points that RT burned everyone's good will and patience. But I wouldn't say it's completely worthless.

Warner Bros was always too to make their DC line profitable while the MCU was literally laughing at the bank with billions of dollars.

Let the franchise lay low for a few years, reboot it with competent people, and half decent writers. Maybe make it a real anime, and I think it could be a huge hit. I doubt WB will part away with RWBY without asking got at least a few millions.

But yes, if anyone is dumb enough to try to continue it as RT left it then yes RWBY is worthless.
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The main takeaway (for me) is that anyone who could competently extract value from RWBY could just as well extract value from their own IP instead.

There's nothing you "get" from RWBY that would be worth paying for. If Warner Brothers wanted to sell off the DC movie rights - there's a value in that, as people like Batman, Superman, etc.

Random Internet Person said:
What would his Semblance be?
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He would be able to see a person's internet history and secrets by making eye contact.
 
Useful_Mistake said:
Somehow I don't think Batman was exactly what Monty had in mind when he was designing cute girls fighting monsters.

Anyway, Ruby and Yang's VA's are streaming now (in Vtuber models)

Over an hour in, and only half a thousand of watchers. For context they have 14 thousands Twitch followers and 145 thousand Twitter followers, where they also shilled this stream
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Twitch just recommended me this and I thought I was hallucinating. No it's real, they really are milking RWBY for all it's worth.
Averaging on 900 viewers right now, definitely a boost from recent news. Wonder how long they can keep it up.
 
Imagine the insane fit they would put if WB used RWBY for a tax write down. It’s not entirely impossible if the RWBY sales are that bad. It wouldn’t be the first time Warner has a huge property that they rather get rid of.

They did it with Sym-Bionic Titan, and Megan’s XLR. It’s a slim chance, because I do think a reboot could be profitable if people with actual talent did it, but it’s not impossible They rather send it to tax hell.
 
SherlockMexicano said:
Imagine the insane fit they would put if WB used RWBY for a tax write down. It’s not entirely impossible if the RWBY sales are that bad. It wouldn’t be the first time Warner has a huge property that they rather get rid of.

They did it with Sym-Bionic Titan, and Megan’s XLR. It’s a slim chance, because I do think a reboot could be profitable if people with actual talent did it, but it’s not impossible They rather send it to tax hell.
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Even worse, if this video is any indication, I’m not sure if the tax scheme will really do much.

 
SherlockMexicano said:
Imagine the insane fit they would put if WB used RWBY for a tax write down. It’s not entirely impossible if the RWBY sales are that bad. It wouldn’t be the first time Warner has a huge property that they rather get rid of.

They did it with Sym-Bionic Titan, and Megan’s XLR. It’s a slim chance, because I do think a reboot could be profitable if people with actual talent did it, but it’s not impossible They rather send it to tax hell.
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It boggles my mind that every few weeks I have to come to either this thread or RT's thread and say the exact same thing. RT AND RWBY ARE FUCKING TINY IN COMPARISON TO WB!!!!

They are miniscule specs of dust compared to the mountain of IP's, employees and money/debt that WB is made of. I can guarn-fucking-tee that if you asked a WB executive about RT or RWBY they would be confused because they wouldn't know what the fuck your talking about. They axed them because it was one of a thousand other subsidiaries not making money on a balance sheet, not because they knew what they were.

The reason they won't write off RWBY is the same reason RT survived the last few years, because they were so tiny and so insignificant in the greater WB corporate empire that they were simply forgotten and ignored.
 
Useful_Mistake said:
If they actually sell me the IP, I will post evidence which probably will result in my dox. It’d be too funny not to. Actually, holy shit, imagine the reaction from Reddit that an evil Nazi Moderator is in charge of RWBY?
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I’d honestly look into maybe setting an LLC to hide your identity if you buy it. I’d unironically donate to a fundraiser for that. I donated to Null’s on the grounds that he be forced to watch Ebichu and Elfen Lied like A Clockwork Orange. I’d probably donate to that.
 
I believe the most important thing for anyone who eventually picks up and reboots RWBY is to under absolutely no circumstances hire any of the former Rooster Teeth alumni.
 
RWBY isn't worth much as an IP, but it is certainly worth more than 2Gs. Fun as that would be to see, I assume they'll be expecting 10-20 mil for it at least, though I don't expect anyone to bite for anywhere near that amount. At best we could expect RWBY to get sold as a bundle with several other IPs, or it will just wind up in the WB vault to never be seen again.
Tanner Glass said:
There's nothing you "get" from RWBY that would be worth paying for
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Well, actually, you get a not-insignificant amount of brand recognition. If I try to sell you my own original IP about four teenagers stopping the apocalypse you'd probably just call it generic and gay. If I told you it was the official reboot of RWBY, you'd probably watch it out of morbid curiosity if nothing else.
Fougaro said:
I believe the most important thing for anyone who eventually picks up and reboots RWBY is to under absolutely no circumstances hire any of the former Rooster Teeth alumni.
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I'd hire Ruby and Weiss's VAs back, but leave Barb and Blake out in the cold, just for lols.
 
Chilson said:
It boggles my mind that every few weeks I have to come to either this thread or RT's thread and say the exact same thing. RT AND RWBY ARE FUCKING TINY IN COMPARISON TO WB!!!!

They are miniscule specs of dust compared to the mountain of IP's, employees and money/debt that WB is made of. I can guarn-fucking-tee that if you asked a WB executive about RT or RWBY they would be confused because they wouldn't know what the fuck your talking about. They axed them because it was one of a thousand other subsidiaries not making money on a balance sheet, not because they knew what they were.

The reason they won't write off RWBY is the same reason RT survived the last few years, because they were so tiny and so insignificant in the greater WB corporate empire that they were simply forgotten and ignored.
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I am not saying RWBY is a big deal. I have no idea what gave you that impression.

I am actually staying the opposite. That RWBY is so small a random accountant night use it as a tax write off to balance the sheets.that at the end of the day RWBY really isn't any different to all cartoons WB has sent to tax vault hell.

I am saying RT's fans would go insane if that happened. And that would be hilarious. But it might not happen because RWBY is actually not completely worthless. A few millions at least. Pocket change by corporate standards.
 
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SherlockMexicano said:
I am not saying RWBY is a big deal. I have no idea what gave you that impression.

I am actually staying the opposite. That RWBY is so small a random accountant night use it as a tax write off to balance the sheets.that at the end of the day RWBY really isn't any different to all cartoons WB has sent to tax vault hell.

I am saying RT's fans would go insane if that happened. And that would be hilarious. But it might not happen because RWBY is actually not completely worthless. A few millions at least. Pocket change by corporate standards.
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Have the (remaining) fans raised a stink over it?
 
Mega Black said:
Well, actually, you get a not-insignificant amount of brand recognition.
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The brand recognition is primarily "That show that had 2-3 good seasons out of 9 and was comically bad most times".

You get the brand recognition but you also get the baggage the brand has as well.
 
Tanner Glass said:
The brand recognition is primarily "That show that had 2-3 good seasons out of 9 and was comically bad most times".

You get the brand recognition but you also get the baggage the brand has as well.
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Lol, what are you talking about. It was perfect. All of it. Haters be hating! XP - coping fans
 
Tanner Glass said:
The brand recognition is primarily "That show that had 2-3 good seasons out of 9 and was comically bad most times".

You get the brand recognition but you also get the baggage the brand has as well.
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Regardless, RWBY has a built-in fanbase and even many of the biggest critics whinge endlessly about how they would love a proper reboot of the show. RWBY was massively successful despite being shit a vast majority of the time, if you could take the IP and make something good with it you could probably make it very comfortably profitable, and likely be heralded as the group that saved RWBY from its incompetent inheritors.
 
Mega Black said:
RWBY isn't worth much as an IP, but it is certainly worth more than 2Gs.
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In a vacuum maybe. But you have to remember all the controversies and failures, and the staff doing all they could to portray RWBY as a financial disaster. Would you want to invest in this if there's a high chance you won't be getting your money back?
 
Useful_Mistake said:
and the staff doing all they could to portray RWBY as a financial disaster.
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This was the worst move they could have made, I agree. My point isn't that the IP is expensive and worth billions, just that it isn't worthLESS. Is the IP going to appeal to a big company? Maybe not. But big companies also hate original ideas and RWBY had all the appearances of a very successful franchise (you don't get nine seasons of a show made unless an audience is there, somewhere).

Basically saying that the IP is totally dead and there is no audience and it is only worth pennies is a misconception, though not a belief without a certain amount of merit.
Useful_Mistake said:
. Would you want to invest in this if there's a high chance you won't be getting your money back
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If I were an executive with plenty of money to spend I'd absolutely snap up RWBY because I am competent enough to make it profitable. But I'm not, and executives are basically aliens for how intelligent they are, so I can't say for sure.

Again I think it's more likely to just get vaulted in reality.
 
Mega Black said:
If I were an executive with plenty of money to spend I'd absolutely snap up RWBY because I am competent enough to make it profitable. But I'm not, and executives are basically aliens for how intelligent they ar
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Warner is publicly traded. They need to convince investors that this is worthwhile. There is a very good reason investors keep demanding the same capeshit slop with same stories, they have proven to sell well. They don't like taking risks.

I agree, RWBY as an IP has value, but you would either have to wait long enough to dilute some of the controversy, or spend millions PR-ing (which you might not get back). It doesn't have that blind hatred that something like Sword Art Online has where it has a massive base of haters who will watch everything about it just to complain about how their favorite bootleg SAO is so much better. RWBY has haters, but I don't think that it's to a financially beneficial degree, if you get what I mean
 
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