“make it more accessible”

Changes. What is up with companies, big companies, changing their products into oblivion?

Blizzard just announced that they're going to make a warcraft movie. That's GREAT! I truly am interested in what they come up with. They have so much IP that it would be hard to make something boring. I mean, their cinematics have been legendary. It's hard to see how they can screw that up. Right?

But they want to make it "more accessible" to the masses. WHY?! The whole reason they are making a movie, is because the EXISTING games are popular. And now they want to change that to make it more accessible. The reason the games are popular should be the reason the movie is popular. Why change it? I truly don't understand their motives. If they only understood that they should stick to their lore and IP like scripture. Make it "warcrafty" not "movie-like". I can't think of any movie that was based on an existing intellectual property that did BETTER because it was changed. But I can think of several, actually more than ten, that have been horribly ruined by their cinematic counterpart because they were "adapted".

What is also funny is how Hollywood doesn't seem to understand that the reason why movie such as X-men, Batman Begins and (my prediction) Superman Returns are so successful, is that they ARE that story. They weren't changed. They hire people who are specifically good a keeping the story true and then wonder why movies like Doom are absolute shit. I certainly don't.