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diffyqgirl t1_ja843uh wrote

Avoiding unfinished series hurts authors and means they'll never get finished, cause the sales aren't there. It's really sad to me that two big names seem to have ruined this for everybody. I advise treating them like the exceptions they are rather than assuming all authors are going to be like this.

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Suspicious_Gazelle18 t1_ja8cif2 wrote

It’s the tragedy of the commons! If a few people wait until all the books are out, it’s fine. If we all did that, we’d never get the books.

I think the same thing every time people complain about stuff they haven’t yet watched being cancelled on Netflix. If you don’t want it cancelled, then watch it! If it does end up getting cancelled, you will survive.

Like I’m also mad GRRM hasn’t finished ASOIAF yet, but I’ve still gotten so much enjoyment out of what I did read and I will survive if I never get to read another page from that series again.

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DafnissM t1_ja8dhtd wrote

At this point I know of more cancelled series on Netflix that I know of cancelled books series

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mist3rdragon t1_ja8h3q6 wrote

In the case of Netflix, I'd say it's different because Netflix has brought that lack of trust on themselves. They even made a small statement about how they didn't want to cancel shows without giving them conclusions then outside of a couple of high profile cases they went on to not change their behaviour at all. (Which was obviously going to be the case, so I don't know why they lied about trying to give shows conclusions).

Authors on the other hand aren't a monolith, George RR Martin isn't responsible for what any other writer promises and visa versa so it's not fair to decide not to read someone else's books because GRRM took a while to write a couple of books.

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Kael_Alduin t1_ja8he54 wrote

We also live in the age of instant gratification. Thanks to, well, capitalism and it's quest to sell everything to everyone!

Games are a big culprit in that with pre-orders and early access. People throw fits and get their way when Games don't pan out or are taking too long, why would they act differently elsewhere?

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vpi6 t1_ja8i8vf wrote

Seriously, very few published series actually suffer decade long delays. It has a much better track record than TV series and movies.

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