@mr.incredible125 - I posted something similar a few weeks back in the "Hail Mary" post, albeit as a subscription-based pricing model to lessen the risk even further - which the Walt Disney Company might even directly entertain as a mobile app that happened to be supported on consoles (granted, long shot). Many here on the forums consider the physical figures as essential to the reboot. So we pursue the game with even worse odds
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So that means licensing to a separate publisher willing to take the risk. I do think that subscription-based pricing is the best way to mitigate that risk, while still providing the ability to sell physical figures separately. I do think they should be optional on the reboot. It would make the distribution of content much easier - the new publisher wouldn't need to immediately sell figures, or bases, or in many cases, even game discs.
It's also important to note that Infinity generated lots of revenue and profit for the Walt Disney Company, but for multiple quarters it fell below expectations - which adversely affected the stock. Don't have a lot of experience with this, but it seems like a smaller company that is not dependent on stockholder expectations can take a little more risk - a smaller company doesn't need to generate nearly as much revenue or profit. It still needs to generate both, but could do so at a much smaller scale. That's how focusing on the Toy Box maximizes the chance for a reboot. A smaller team could make incremental updates, leveraging what's already been built. That's where the Community comes together, where so much shared content is generated by the fans - essentially for free. The reboot really would be coming largely from the Community itself.
And this brings us back to the long-standing request of a reorganized Community DB - because so many Toy Boxes get lost in the long list of Community Content. I had made a short-sighted user request for the DB back in the 1.0 time frame, and wish I'd pursued the ideas better then. A better way is listed under "The Toy Box As Its Own Form Of Social Media" post. For a smaller company to focus on the creativity of the Toy Box & its infinite possibilities, that database needs an overhaul.
So that's how I keep ending up here (it's not the only way, but I think it's the most likely, in this long shot of long shots)...
Digital subscriptions. Optional figures. Toy Box focus. Searchable content.