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Damn, I scrolled every single comment, sure I was gonna find Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2017).
They stopped supporting the game right before the Mandalorian (among other popular shows) released
Destiny 2
Battlefield
remote controled rocket launchers, grenades, grenade launchers and various other explosives with ammo on a hero-shooter-like cooldown.
wingsuits that would make batman jealous and extremely forgiving physics.
Traded soldiers and factions for rainbow six operatives in a high player count environment.
Battlefield used to be this unique grounded tactical arcade hybrid. Now it’s just gone full hero arcade and lost all of its identity.
Overwatch 2. Shot itself in the foot, I tell ya.
Gwent. Not in The Witcher 3. Actual Gwent. I loved it. Haven’t played in a few years though. They just kept shifting the meta to this and that and everyone just kept playing the same “winning” builds with the same cards. I lost the sense of wonder that came with trying out new cards and plays only to be fucking crushed by a setup someone found on YouTube. Now its losing support and development. Loved it hard while I played though.
Warzone
Overwatch
Apex
Overwatch 2
Not quite sure this counts, but EA’s handling of the Command & Conquer franchise comes to mind.
Westwood’s earlier iterations were obviously fantastic (C&C, Red Alert, Red Alert 2, Tiberian Sun). And EA managed to make some good moves after that (Generals, Tiberium Wars, and even the mostly rocky Red Alert 3).
Then they did C&C4, aimed at a weird e-sports market, with changes that ruin what makes every C&C title amazing and iconic. Then they abandoned the tradition of the franchise and turned it into a cash-grab mobile game.
EA has done a lot of shitty things, but the way they ruined C&C hits hard.
I do hope Tempest Rising is good, though!
Honestly rockstar games when the do sweet fuck all with reddeadonline, damn I Wonder why RDO isn’t as successful as our other live service IP?! Damn I wonder if it’s got anything to do with y’all adding nothing to the game 🥴
Technically a historical example of this but there is no greater fall offs in gaming history then what happened to Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon.
Rainbow six siege. The game takes itself far too seriously in the past 3-4 years. Removal of bodies, changing or removal of fun maps, removing T hunt and the incredibly hard to believe tech aspect. When it was released it felt way more realistic and just felt Tom Clancy. The recent designs and aesthetic of the game feels more like Valorant, nonsensical and high tech. All the og operators felt realistic, like it could be something irl. Now we have some guy who has mechanical bees and a literal robot. Idk. It feels unfun now
Halo. After Reach, 343 came in and said ‘lets take this unique and beloved FPS game and make it as much like CoD as possible.’ So in the end, all the Halo fans were alienated and all the CoD fans were too busy playing actual CoD. Infinite is a little better but still suffers from modern game BS like battle passes and item shops.
Assassins’s Creed
Battlefield series
Pokemon Go
Saints Row. SR was a funny yet serious Gangster Game which was immaculately improved upon with saints row two with more humor and wacky stuff added in whilst also keeping most of its serious tones from the original making it a fantastic mix of Zany and Serious! Like They had the only actual competition to GTA. But since they thought they needed to make themselves more unique and to break out of the GTA clone title they decided to cut out all the excess serious stuff and focus completely on comedy and craziness which completely derailed their VERY MUCH REAL potential to actually compete with rockstar especially since at the time GTA 4 wasn’t receiving stellar reviews while SR2 was receiving very good praise from those who had played it! But instead of capitalizing off the initial bad press of GTA 4 and Success of their game by making it bigger and better they decided they didn’t want to compete with rockstar and went Hollywood… like literally they went from a street gang that ran a city to a literal organization with their own merch and energy drinks? Yeah I really don’t know why they assumed their game was so funny it needed so little effort story wise
RuneScape with RuneScape 3 before OSRS.
Payday 2 to 3
Overwatch. WOW, Diablo. Pokémon
Tic Tac Toe. Day one patch ruined it.
Hot take: Minecraft
For me Helldivers 2, but my understanding they started to right the ship and I redownloaded to give it a go again
Dead Space. From 2 to 3 specifically. If you know, you know.
World of Warcraft
Dragon age
The Call of Duty franchise
Overwatch2
Dead Space 3
Helldivers 2 now FOR THE SECOND TIME
First they nerfed all the fun out but eventually walked it back
Now they’ve gone full corpo degenerate with microtransactions but there’s no walking it back anymore. People with standards won’t stick around.
Fall Guys, removing the crown winnings and locking all the fun cosmetics behind a pay exclusive currency!
Pokemon.
Among Us