You could also do the Overwatch thing and shut down the servers of the previous game so people either have to accept the new game or leave. Solves the problem in the eyes of the executives.
One thing I would say justifies a new game is when you want to resolve a problem that’s ingrained in the existing content, making these changes fight with the majority of the game. A new iteration, a clean slate, can help with that a lot.
Yes, but that was not a positive experience for OW2. It just killed the community.
And it wasn’t the goal to appease the community, but the shareholders.
They wouldn’t understand why a new product isn’t earning like gangbusters when it’s a sequel to a live service game. They only see a flop that “has to leech off” the profits of its predecessors, making it a liability in the eyes of those people. They mostly care about short term profits, not long term strategies.
