Inferior Sequels Erasing Iconic Originals

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PC Gamer has just done a brief article about a recent live service concept where an original game is being overwritten and essentially erased from existence and replaced with a sequel that is largely inferior in terms of overall quality or its content offering. One of the first instances of this was Warzone Verdansk along with Caldera and has since happened with Overwatch 2 and then CS2 replacing the massively popular and longstanding CSGO. 

 

Warzone Verdansk was absolutely huge for a good 3 years and was replaced by Vanguard's Caldera taking people's expensive bundle purchases with it. Overwatch was one of the biggest IP's of the decade and probably the only game where lootboxes were done right. It built some incredible lore and remained popular for a good few years after release. Blizzard neglected the hell out of the brand amidst controversies within the studio and with many big names departing for many reasons, the game was then picked up by remaining employees and it's unwanted sequel arrived taking away the identity of the first game and further delivering a barrage of microtansactions. They also failed to deliver the campaign which was the sole justification for the sequel and now to earn one skin, you may have to play for 170 hours or stump up $39.99 rather than earning it through challenges or a lootbox.

 

Shiny CS2 has completely replaced CSGO and whilst it looks and plays the part, it's missing many maps, modes and features plus the new ranking system is completely illogical. It was very unusual for Valve to not at least leave a legacy watered-down version of CSGO available especially as it was a title of 11 years and now it has erased without a trace seemingly. CS 1.6, Source and Condition Zero remain playable as a standalone game to this day but it seems Valve couldn't separate their skins from the sequrel so they took the knee-jerk reaction to instead wipe a game from existence than explore alternatives. 

 

I hope this trend will not continue. Preservation is already a problem especially with bad remasters and those that are attached to launchers but to have games disappear for good and have a shite title in its placed forced upon users is another reminder that live service gaming is only good for the present. 

 

Original article

The new worst gaming trend: killing our favorite games to replace them with sequels | PC Gamer

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The biggest games of the last decade are being wiped off the internet for no good reason.

 

[cyberninja2601 1,103]

 

Funny, when I first saw the title I was thinking this was going to be about all those movies and TV show reboots that are showing up

 

I guess lack of creativity/Quality/originality is systematic in the entertainments industry in general.  It's much easier to just repurpose old stuff that was successful and hope it sticks