>>47752731They took a gamble and lost. I’m assuming that Cover was dead-set on debuting Tempus, and nothing short of an implosion bad enough to destroy the EN branch could ever have changed their minds.
That’s fine. I get it. They debuted HoloID for similar reasons (to get a foothold in a new market). I’d say the gamble was this: do they debut Tempus AND EN3, and spend a lot of money on an overseas branch (which is always riskier than the JP branch because JP corpos tend to be self-aware how shit they are at expanding internationally
SEA is different, Japan has historically understood SEA far better than any other foreign market)? Or do they bank on their assumption that EN doesn’t give a fuck about cgdct/gfe and make Tempus EN3 without calling them that? The first option risks wasting lots of money because of how quickly Council fizzled out, while the second risks making HoloEN’s problems worse through lack of a new gen.
Honestly, I think anybody who wasn’t in fear of the hugbox dog piling them would tell them obviously, do the first options. Even if HoloEN’s problems are structural, an EN3 would at least buy them time to fix their shit. But no, they tried to force HoloPro down our throats, and plenty of people are just tired of it and at the very least stopped contributing to the kind of fan discourse that builds hype for the brand.
I can easily imagine an alternate timeline where Cover stuck to its old strategy of “Debuting new Stars isn’t the end of the world, we’re not Nijisanji”, and built trust in the brand. But no, we’re here.
