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Old series that has a decent following of mostly niche dedicated fans is left to sit without a new installment for many years.
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New title is announced. It’s sells gang-busters and flips the community on its head.
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Corporate Executives prioritize short term profits and begin planning a quick and easy cash grab. !
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Second new installment comes out. It is a shell of the previous title with the soul sucked clean out.
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Fans are dissapointed and outside of a small niche following the game series falls into obscurity.
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Repeat.
! we are here right now
Look… Maybe BG4 will be good. But after watching this exact cycle play out over and over again for the past decade I’m not sure how you can expect anything else.
Isn’t that an issue with the developers of those games? Steam is ultimately just a game library. If the book you check out of that library is only readable on Kindle that’s not on Steam lol