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Blizzard and Bethesda are both currently known for making massive hits and then just kinda...not making a sequel within a reasonable time frame? Like, can you believe it's been over ten years since Skyrim? It was only about a five year gap between previous entries.

I really don't think it's some kind of bizarre counter-intuitive business decision, I suspect it's just wild mismanagement, a failure to take advantage of an eager audience.

I don't want annual GTA games, or Ubisoft style sequels. But 10 years is far, far too long.

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Might want to add Square to that list on the JRPG side; they have new IP but it’s all nostalgia bait for their games from the 90s (like re-using the same battle systems, heavily derivative music and character design, etc). They’re also dropping a lot of remakes / remasters of questionable quality. Also final fantasy 15 was total trash after a decade long dev cycle; and this is after 14 was so bad as an MMO they had to destroy the world and reboot the game. We’re going on 6 years since 15 was released (and it was also a terrible game) and have heard nothing about 16 other than how much it keeps getting delayed.

FFXV was good, except for the whole train-ride thing in the second half. Good overworld, good though occasionally annoying dungeons, beautiful monsters and locales, fun gameplay. Now FFXIII was total trash.

Original GTA to GTA IV (a total of 6 titles) took 11 years. GTA V took 5 years to follow up. Now it took 9 years to even confirm GTA VI, with the release probably still years out.

The complexity of the games increasing might have something to do with that.

>can you believe it's been over ten years since Skyrim?

Can you believe they are still cashing in on WoW and tried to make a cheap Diablo remake on mobile?

> But 10 years is far, far too long.

Well, I would be happy to accept Diablo 2 + D2 LoD + "new 6th module" in 4k.

Eve Online is still going strong and is a year older than WoW. MMORPGs can be incredibly long lived, and WoW would have had a long and bright future if it weren't for Blizzard's mismanagement.

I really wanted to enjoy Eve Online. I like the ideas behind the game, such as permanent ship loss. It meant that crafting could be profitable, unlike WoW, where throughout its entire history, it's always been more profitable to sell the materials to craft something than to craft it and sell the result.

But the execution felt boring as hell. From what I understood, late-game combat is basically rock-paper-scissors. Early-game combat is just telling your ship to maintain a specific distance and auto-firing your weapons then going AFK for a couple minutes.

This video sums up how Eve felt to me: https://youtu.be/4c6jafaiPh8

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