Replying to you rarely seems to go well – for anyone on this forum. But what do you ‘doubt’, precisely – you doubt renting an entire castle and turning it into an elaborate theme park is expensive? Or you doubt that all the equipment and rehearsal and costumes and editing is expensive? Or do you doubt all the thousands and thousands that go into this – not to mention all the man-hours of planning – couldn’t be better spent, I don’t know, making a game instead? Because I’d disagree.
And yeah, like you said – no one seems particularly comfortable at these things, so that’s the teambuilding bit out the window. Even if you classify it as ‘advertising’, that doesn’t automatically translate into sales. Bad advertising in fact damages the brand, and I’ve read many unflattering ‘takes’ on these skits outside the core Larian fanbase. The word ‘cringe’ has become so overused these days that it is itself, ironically, cringe – but that’s how I’d view these PFHs: unwatchable, frankly.
Your last sentence makes no logical sense, so I can’t address it – but you might want to reflect on your habit of adding cloying little winky-faces to the end of your ‘I gotcha’ remarks. There’s a bait-y-ness to it that’s not subtle, and it’s an eyesore of the highest calibre during the emoji-deluge that you frequently use to suffocate opinions you dislike. Can you not just state ‘I’ve an alternative take’ in a neutral fashion, like all other adults? Write the take, leave out the bait and ditch the goad-y nudge-nudge winky-wink malarkey.
