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>Implying LU was aimed at older fans.
-カナマ
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No, I realize it wasn't aimed at us, but they shut it down not from lack of funds but because not enough
little kids were playing it. (Read the press release again, it's a very clever twisting of the truth to make it sound like they didn't have a choice.) Now IDK about you, but if I were selling a game, I wouldn't care who was buying my product as long as they were paying for it.
There's other things too that indicate LEGO doesn't want its older fans, they want us to get out of the way and let the little kids play Lego without us. This is a superbly short-sighted strategy, as 1.) unlike older fans, 5-12-year-olds don't have the money to but the sets themselves, and 2.) if they alienate us, do they actually think we'll try to get our kids and/or younger relatives into Lego when the time comes? As it stands now, if I had a younger sibling, there isn't a snowball's chance in Karzhani I'd try to get them involved; I'd actually warn them away from Lego, because I don't trust corporate.
It's sad, really, the managers and lower staff and even most of the website designers and moderators are all REALLY great people, but Lego's 1%, the upper managers and corporate leaders, are short-sighted fools who have no idea how much damage their decisions are doing to their own brand. I want to go to headquarters, strap them into chairs, and monologue at them until they see reason, but since that's not going to happen I'm trying to distance myself somewhat from LEGO for when the inevitable meltdown occurs.
There are creations I have made that I will not post right now because I'm afraid I'd get Lego's attention and be offered a job. Normally, I'd want that, but I don't want to be on a sinking ship, so I'm trying to keep a low profile that way. Once LEGO snaps its head back on properly, I'll gladly offer myself again, but for now...they're on their own.
