What do you consider the biggest letdowns, missed opportunities, falls from grace, bad decisions etc in the industries history?

Could be your personal example.

My first thoughts (slightly obvious choices): Silent Hills cancellation

Big publishers pushing out talent and great franchises losing quality (Mass Effect and Dead Space?)

Great game franchises kept alive without the original talent, (silent hill? Halo?).

(I started thinking about this considering the potential future of arkane, and what redfall and Bethesda may mean for their future)

  • Godzilla_FanBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The Blizzard and Activision merger screwed up so many Blizzard games. WoW got back to quality with Dragonflight but we’ll see how long that lasts

  • PozzgBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    For me downfall of Battlefield with BF 2042. Damn that EA ruined so many good franchises

  • banevadegangBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Microsoft acquiring Rare, which led to the cancelation of Conker’s Bad Fur Day sequel.

    Edit: and Golden Sun 3

  • PMC-I3181OS387l5BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    2023 in general…

    I’ve lost count of how many layoffs there are at right now :(

  • DarthNihilus1BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    No Knights of the Old Republic 3.

    Titanfall 2 being released in between battlefield and infinite warfare

  • Middle-Welder3931BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    We expect games to release at basically beta-testing stage and not get the 100% game until a patch or DLC two years later.

    Pokemon games from 20 years ago being better and more refined than the Pokemon games released today.

  • yrulaughingBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Silent Hills is the one that hurt the most for me.

  • steveraptorBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Thief remaster was a disaster, I grew on that series and they just went and butchered it.