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I don't this he's being insane at all. It's textbook corporate protection of a lucrative but unstable IP. Japanese publicly traded corporations are especially brutal and notorious for this.
A good analogy you often see with say Video Games. Why do you think it's been almost 30 years and Square Enix didn't dare touch the Chrono Trigger franchise after Chrono Cross ? Why did they didn't dare touch FF7 until the remake 20 years after the deal after Crisis Core ? Fans were begging for it for years. Don't they like money ?
This is because an IP as an intrinsic value in itself. If you keep re-releasing Chrono Trigger as it is, as a port, it remains hung in your nostalgia. Square Enix can continue to sell mugs with Lucca on it, skins of Crono and Robo for engagement in their upcoming games. If they instead release a new installment into the series and it's panned, doesn't do what it's expected to do or is even just disappointing, then that image hung in your nostalgia is damaged. The value tied with the IP is reduced at a much higher and faster rate than if you would have just left the IP alone. When the talents that helped made the game, that -were- the game isn't there anymore, or don't have the same passion or heart they had at the time, it can only lead to damaging the IP. I hope the analogy explains a bit how a corporation thinks and works. If Gura's heart wasn't into it, if they knew she was looking for a way out, then it's better to leave Gura the way she is: as a character in our memories and sell her image instead while they still can instead of putting her out there risking her IP along with everyone else's decreasing for the investors.
