I remembered the out cry when they said dark souls was getting an easy mode and defended it, because people that wanted their hardcore dark souls wouldn't have to touch easy... But this is beyond that, changing the entire game for non core audience.
They'll make their money once, twice maybe. The core franchise will buy it till they get disgusted with it. And the new purchases that are there because you put something shiny out their won't become fans. They won't tell people to buy it, buy the next one because they'll probably be busy with the next AAA flavor of the week. With each time spending more and more money till making more then you sold the last one becomes a failure.
Then you'll turn into resident evil, a franchise so casualed out that no one wants you, even when you try to recapture that core audience. It's to late, because someone else will have already delivered on what you gave up on, like dead space to resident evil. And even when you do come back, and do a good job. Like resident evil revelations, The mix of RE 4 with RE 1 type of horror and puzzles married perfectly, no one will care anymore, no one will take the chance.
They'll make their money once, twice maybe. The core franchise will buy it till they get disgusted with it. And the new purchases that are there because you put something shiny out their won't become fans. They won't tell people to buy it, buy the next one because they'll probably be busy with the next AAA flavor of the week. With each time spending more and more money till making more then you sold the last one becomes a failure.
Then you'll turn into resident evil, a franchise so casualed out that no one wants you, even when you try to recapture that core audience. It's to late, because someone else will have already delivered on what you gave up on, like dead space to resident evil. And even when you do come back, and do a good job. Like resident evil revelations, The mix of RE 4 with RE 1 type of horror and puzzles married perfectly, no one will care anymore, no one will take the chance.