Watching the official consortium video I couldn’t help but hear what could be a tongue in cheek criticism of either themselves, their bosses, or a certain publishing overlord. Quotations follow.
The Consortium is neither good nor evil. The Consortium is capitalist; the consortium is concerned primarily with its bottom line.
We see the Consortium’s products, we see the Consortium’s employees. We don’t see the Consortium’s decision-makers.
But what we do see is the Consortium trying to sell people happy feel-good products that make them money and build up the Consortium’s brand name […] that’s why they’re so determined to make a big splash on Southsun Cove: to get the PR, to get the public’s goodwill, to make people associate them with the kind of happy products that make you want to spend money.
Somewhere there’s a Consortium headquarters office with lots of Consortium bigwigs in it, and they look at these reports and they say “Why aren’t we getting better results on our Southsun Cove project?” Without ever having set foot there, without ever having to fight off a pack of angry karka. [players?]
Well in any case that’s how I choose to interpret the video because it’s funnier that way.
