kain_kusanagi said:
Fans are always asking for more so why critisize MS for giving the fans what they want while maintaing such a high level of quality? I think of milking as a bad thing and the amount of Halo and it's quality isn't bad. I save the term "milking" for franchises stretched too far and thin with little effort put in. More effort and love is put into each Halo release than a lot of franchises. Milking means exploitation and while MS is certainly capitalising on the popularity of Halo I don't think MS is exploiting the fans. We want what 343iis selling. |
I think the reason people complain about milking through yearly releases is because the resources spent on every release could be spent developing a new IP, which could bring innovation to the industry. Rather than having 343 pump out Halo games every year, which in many aspects are very similar to the previous entries, they could be making something new.
That said there are franchises that I buy games from continuously which are considered "milked". For example Pokemon you could say is milked to death by Nintendo, but being a hardcore fan of the franchise I pretty much always buy the games whenever they are released (including some spinoffs). Same with COD; I love the franchise and buy the games yearly, but eventually there will come a point where if they were to start releasing COD every 3 months for example, and even if these games were all of equally good quality, I would get fed up of playing them. Its the same with eating a really great flavoured ice cream. You may eat it every day for a month, but after that point you'll probably stop eating because it oversaturates your taste. For me a yearly release on the above franchises is just right since it allows me to enjoy each entry and want more by year end (excluding most dlc for COD because I don't want dlc), but for others a yearly release probably is oversaturating for their taste. Its just difference in circumstances and opinion.
