FFXIV story? Yoshi P what are you thoughts?

[Meow_Zedong]

lets look bad on some books that a great majority of people never heard of until they made a movie about it.. LOTR, Narnia, Jurassic Park, and the list can continue forever.

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[MalayaDrake]

Confirmed for being 12 years old.

please explain what you meant

[Aenarion]

please explain what you meant

it's pretty simple, you said:

lets look bad on some books that a great majority of people never heard of until they made a movie about it.. LOTR, Narnia, Jurassic Park, and the list can continue forever. my point with this reply is that once these particular books were made into movies the books sold like hot cakes all over again bringing in yet more and more revenue. I would be willing to bet that SE may actually increase their fan base if they did release a book that invoked the imagination, brought excitement to the readers mind and completely engulfed the reader in an adventure they may not have ever experienced before.

You've just labeled two of the most well-known, popular, and arguably the most important fantasy novel series of the 20th century as something that nobody's heard of 'til the movies.

Let's put it this way, while the movies have been a nice boost to the sales of the books, especially LOTR, they were already beyond the 100 million copies milestone before that, not exactly something that "the great majority of people have never heard of".

[MalayaDrake]

You've just labeled two of the most well-known, popular, and arguably the most important fantasy novel series of the 20th century as something that nobody's heard of 'til the movies.

Let's put it this way, while the movies have been a nice boost to the sales of the books, especially LOTR, they were already beyond the 100 million copies milestone before that, not exactly something that "the great majority of people have never heard of".

Actually i never said nobody, i did say " a great majority of people never heard of until they made a movie about it" and I am correct in saying that. if you feel so inclined go online and do some of your own research into the subject. Just because they have sold 120 million copies (in 41 different languages if i'm not mistaken [Narnia]) around the world does not mean that the 120 million copies were sold before the movies were made. Point in fact (you can check pretty much any news source [NY Times, cough cough]) and find that book sales skyrocketed when word of a movie was being produced. This goes for Jurassic Park as well. Any time they make a movie from a book the book sales skyrocket, (wouldn't 50 shades of grey be an interesting movie for the ladies )