Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25266931-20161119192054/@comment-28345522-20170324182831

WC-83 wrote: KNN005 wrote: I dont care, to be honest. I just dont like when homages get so out of hand that what you get famous for is adding to someone elses idea. Imagine if you wrote a story and no one liked it. Buy a fan wrote a fanfic of it and it gets a movie. I would hate that. Everyone should do they own stuff. The reason your totally cool idea isn't getting traction is because you don't have a following, no one knows who you are and/or think your work is mediocre. Fan followings don't often come from a vaccuum. Doing something like RvB (aside from just having fun making a super funny comedy series) allowed them to get a large enough of a fanbase to allow them to fly away from Halo (and eventually RvB...finally!) and do their own cool shit that they made.

Honestly, even that doesn't always work. Plenty of other people fail even with that. That's the nature of creative work. It sucks, but saying that's not how it happens is diluding youself, no matter how unfair it seems. RvB is a good comedy, and has become a good drama as well. That's ok. There's also the fact that, with a few movies as exceptions, Halo is a video game franchise that stands out on its own pretty well (except Halo 5, that was a mess). RvB can't leech gamers from Halo because it's not in direct competition with Halo, instead it's more of a mutual symbiosis. Exposure to one eventually means exposure to the other.