Game developers and TV showrunners are finally allies.
Of course, there's more than one way to show respect for the material, as evidenced by CD Projekt and Netflix's other shared big hitter, The Witcher. Counterintuitively, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich's show has succeeded by keeping its distance from the games.
As a viewer, it's all upside. None of the choices you might make on Geralt's behalf in Wild Hunt are negated by the plot of the show. And seeing the background of characters like Ciri and Triss explored on TV only deepens your emotional understanding of who you're dealing with in the games. Then there's Arcane: League of Legends—the Netflix adaptation supervised by Riot Games that tells a relationship-driven story its parent game never could in the course of a 40-minute MOBA match. After the show dethroned Squid Game to become Netflix's most-watched series at the time, pick rates for LoL champions Jayce and Jinx spiked as players suddenly saw something new in them.
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