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sundin13 said:
Losing your playerbase also greatly effects the legs of a game. If you can keep your players around, you are more likely to get in more players, you are more likely to sell DLC and you are more likely to sell a sequel when it comes out.

That's a good point.  So it makes sense from a publisher point of view to want maximum profits.