#Tim Sweeny

[blazehedgehog]

Thoughts on Tim Sweeney's future of video games being all about live service experiences?

Epic has primarily been a multiplayer-only developer for close to (if not more than) 20 years now. And Fortnite in particular has made them billions and billions and billions of dollars.

Like, I believe it came out as part of the Apple trial, Epic made 20 billion dollars in 2022 alone. That's $20,000,000,000. And that's just for that one year. Fortnite has, since then, had multiple times where they've broken all kinds of concurrent player records, and now Fortnite as a business has grown to encompass multiple entire games.

It would be easy to say that, in its entire life time, just Fortnite alone has very likely earned Epic Games close to one hundred billion dollars.

So if you're looking at things from a purely monetary perspective, as a "𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝" that generates "𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚒𝚝", then yes. You would naturally say this. You would say, "we made a live service product that has generated more money than anything we've ever made combined, ergo that is the future." You are successful, so you want to repeat that success.

Which is the thing with these kinds of people, right. I know Tim Sweeny comes from the trenches, I know he wasn't always this rich, but he's speaking from the same perspective as, like... let's talk movies for a second.

Let's talk about the term "executive meddling." Film studio executives chase money. They chase trends. They'd like to be trend setters, but the fact of the matter is, a lot of them are too cowardly to do that. They wait until somebody else becomes a trend setter, they set up a mining operation in that trend, and bleed the vein dry until the next trend setter comes along.

You might have a really incredible idea for a movie, you might write a really amazing script, and it could turn out to be a legendary classic, but executives only see the world in dollar signs. If your movie doesn't hit "what's hot" then you are considered a risk and depending on how much of a risk you are, your legitimately great movie might get thrown in the dumpster.

And even if they are the ones to set a trend, that does not necessarily mean they are suddenly open and welcoming to new ideas. Again, it's all about going where the success is and staying there until the success stops happening.

Games are no different, except that it's much easier to have a breakout indie success on a lower budget than it is with a movie. There's a lot about making a movie that requires a crew of people to work, whereas an indie game can be the sole effort of a single person and still tear up the charts.

With the one hundred billion dollars Fortnite has made Tim Sweeny, he could fund hundreds of thousands of independent developers. Possibly even a million-plus. He could give these people careers. Even if they failed, it wouldn't matter, because he has one hundred billion dollars and lost maybe 0.001% of that. He could cultivate an entire cottage industry of his own. Multiple, even.

He doesn't even need to be that picky! He was on staff for Jazz Jackrabbit! It's Sonic with a gun! The next Tim Sweeny could be out there with something just as derivative, and just needs a little extra nudge, you know?

Instead, our current Tim Sweeny wants to make two hundred billion dollars. He wants to put Snoop Dogg in Fortnite, who has a lightsaber battle with the Demogorgon from Stranger Things. They are both killed when horror movie icon Micheal Myers pulls up in Paul Walker's Nissan Skyline from The Fast and the Furious, who blows them both up with a rocket launcher that shoots pumpkins. He is wearing an Among Us back pack.

Certainly, that is a video game. It is also definitely money, both coming in and going out like a firehose. But it will never be the only video game. To claim otherwise is just chest thumping for investors.

You can't take it with you, Tim. And one day, Fortnite will have to shut down. Seven-plus years of weapons, maps and gameplay will all evaporate overnight. Are you so sure you can trap lightning in a bottle again? I haven't forgotten Battle Breakers. The Metaverse only makes sense to those with infinite money, and nobody, not even you, truly have infinite money. Especially not in the ways you're burning it at both ends.

Besides that, Ready Player One was a dystopia! It was a dystopia, Tim! People weren't happy!

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[boneyardbob]

Tim is Sweeny Todd and the mask replaces the razor in the song My Friend and all those scenes. He does still kill people with a shaving razor though, don’t get it twisted. Jay is Mrs. Lovette. Brian is Sweeny Tim’s “dead” wife, making Hoody the mad woman on the street. Alex is the Judge, obviously. Then uh idk about the rest. I feel like Jessica could be Johanna. MAYBE Toby is the little boy they adopt if you wanna get silly with it

[ashprince-of-bel-air]

I had been wondering why Astarion holding a knife to Tav's throat was so attractive yet so familiar.

[eerieeccentrix]

[puppeteeroftheworld]

HEAR ME OUT

Tim Burton is stubborn when casting actors, but once he has found the perfect actors he sticks with them. e.g. Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands in Edward Scissorhands, Victor Van Dort in Corpse Bride, etc.

Now that Jenna Ortega is expected to play Lydia’s daughter in Beetlejuice 2 after the immense success of Wednesday, I believe Tim saw something in Jenna, something similar to what he saw in Johnny. The most apparent traits they have in common include both Jenna and Johnny being outstanding actors, as well as being sharp-featured.

Really hope Jenna will get to play more of Tim’s characters in the future!

[can-of-w0rmz]

Love how I just put on the Tim Burton Sweeny Todd film for the first time (I’ve been a fan of the original 1979 cast recording for ages but never saw this film) in front of my parents and it just opened with the “There's a hole in the world like a great black pit / And the vermin of the world inhabit it / And it's morals aren't worth what a pig can spit / And it goes by the name of London” and they immediately just went “Too right I’m rooting for this guy already” (Ireland moment)

[sanestkanadefan]

Favorite movie?

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Sweeny Todd.

I watched it for the plot.

The plot in question, Helena Bonham Carter.

[makkxb]

Mrs. Lovett

[raurquiz]

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[spinemporium]

The closest shave I ever gave

based on that one lucifer painting

other version below cut :3

[platformdecentral]

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[silveragelovechild]

I’m trying to decide whether I want to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. I bought a ticket for an early screening on 09/04. But now that there are some reviews, and more press about it, I’m not sure.

I saw the original Beetlejuice (1988) and have a vague memories of it. But I haven’t rewatched it since. I saw Burton’s Batman movies (1989/1992). Did I like them? Mixed feelings. They were the only comic book game in town then.

I only have a vague memory of Edward Scissorhands (1990). I “think” I liked Ed Wood (1994), but I didn’t like Mars Attacks (1996). And I especially hated Burton’s Planet of the Apes (2001).

I can’t explain why I continued to go see Tim Burton’s movies such as Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeny Todd (2007), and Alice in Wonderland (2010). He was creatively bankrupt and was just delivering weird schtick.

Burton’s Dark Shadows (2012) was a piece of sh!t. It convinced me to break the habit of seeing any film Burton was associated with. I haven’t seeing a Burton movie since…

… and I just convinced myself to cancel the ticket I prepurchased…

[lee1504]

best tim burton movie?

[that-one-enby-ranger]

Just watched Sweeney Todd for the first time and holy fucking shit that was good. I think I'm in love.