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Jay520 on 29 August 2011
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mantlepiecek said:
Jay520 said:
To all people who claim COD, Halo, & AC To be milked:

What if fans insist on having more experiences? Would it be wrong for companies to meet the demands of their consumers? Should they neglect their consumers, and put the series on a hault, going against the will of consumers? As long as a franchise stays high in quality and sales, a company has every right to 'milk' a franchise. Producers will be happy, Developers will be happy, and most importantly, fans will be happy. The only people upset are the ones who pose no involvement in the game whatsover.


I am not interested in gran turismo. But if sony were to only focus each and every resource they have on gran turismo and release it every year, then I would be pissed at Sony as well. Microsoft can be making age of empires on the 360 and there are several other IPs they could have been concentrating on ( for example: Alan wake, lost odyssey etc ). But instead they concentrate on halo. They aren't listening to their fan-base, they are just listening to the sales, that's all.

They are acting like a publisher not like a platform publisher.

About the other ips, well, franchise fatigue. I am tired of call of duty and now they also cancelled true crime. Its fortunate that some other publisher has taken the franchise in their hands, otherwise it would have been another loss of a great IP.

Milking is bad for people who are not fans as well as fans, but fans won't feel it till the quality declines. Call of duty hasn't changed one bit since modern warfare and that's not even an exaggeration.



Obviously MS is listening to their fanbase if Halo racks in the most fans of any other IP that they own. The fans will take Halo over other IP's any day. When MS. Makes a Halo, tens of millions of XB fans are happy, while a few are upset. If they were to neglect Halo, then their would be millions of fans upset, with only a few happy. Sales = fan-base. If the fans didn't want Halo, they wouldn't buy it.

Oh, and BTW, Ms. Isn't focusing all of their resources on Halo. They have one dev, just like Sony, working on the Halo franchise. That studio is called 343 studious. Halo isn't blocking any other IP's from being created. MS. Just doesn't have the manpower to consistently make various IPs.

Games like COD are in the same boat. Every year ir releases, it's rated high by reviewers. Every year, Devs make tons of cash. And most importantly, the fans love it EVERY Year. It's what the people want. As a publisher, it's their job to give the people what they want.

The fact is COD is well revieved by everyone, by both the fans and reviewers. There are only about 100k people out there like you who feel the opposite. Obviously a publisher can't satisfy everyone, so they decide to satisfy the most people they can. And that's what they do every year.

The majority of your post is opinion. YOU don't want Halo. YOU want different IPs. YOU are tired of COD. You have to remember that you are in a very small minority. As a publisher, it's their job to ignore people like you in order to create more happy customers than unhappy. You have to stop being selfish and realize that MS./Acti are doing what they're doing for the greater good.