What's so bad about annual franchises?

[Cobretti2]

TheGoldenBoy said:

Cobretti2 said:
My only biggest problem is sports games.

- Mechanics don't improve enough to justify a new release each year.
- All we get is a roster change.
- Different modes get rotated and removed to make it appear new.
- They kill online of the old one jut so you are forced to buy the new one if you want to play online.

Sports games should become platforms. Developers can easily just use patches to add new features and tweak the gameplay when necessary, especially since they generally don't improve much graphically over a generation, and then for around $30 you can get the new season's roster update. However, we probably won't see a model like that while they still sell millions of copies launching at $60.

i said the same thing  over 10 years ago, but my wish hasn't cme true yet. So it may be another 20 years before that happens.