| bananaking21 said: Do you consider Mario milked? GTA? Halo? Gran turismo? I think assassin's creed and CoD to be milked. |
I don't think any of those first four franchises are milked. Mario reatins a level a quality across its release, which span many different genres. These genres only get releases every few years, and therefore are not milked. GTA, Halo and Gran Turismo, although they have had spin-offs etc, also generally only release every few years and and side-games are different enough with a decent identity of their own to add soemthing to the franchise rather than being a simple cash-in.
CoD is the obvious example of a milked franchise, as is Assassin's Creed (although I would have disagreed prior to the annoucement of ACIV). Dead Space and Mass Effect may not be milked franchises yet, but the publisher seems to be preparing to be milked. Why? Micro-transactions.
