@toasterface5I think it's also tied to greedy companies trying to make games a live service as well.
You can't do the bare minimum for a multiplayer game, barely release any content at all every few months, and expect players to stick around.
This is why halo infinite dried up despite reviews favoring its core gameplay loop and this is why bfn failed. By the time founders was done a ton of players had already max ranked and unlocked everything so the only thing left was to play a broken shooter with less content or variety than gw1.
Variants could change the entire way you looked at a character and played but an upgrade to just earn more xp or have slightly lower cooldowns after a vanquish doesn't interest people.
Lets not forget that the game didnt include solo play at launch so you constantly forced to play the buggy and downright frustrating at times multiplayer. We only got that feature back because people complained that it was missing! The game launched with downright less content than gw2 and they somehow expected people to jump ship?
In my gw1 and 2 birthday posts those games got far much more content in a shorter period of time so there was more reasons to play! Let's not forget that it took them several months just to get the wizard out and that was after a slog of trying to duct tape the game after reducing lobby sizes to 8V8.
Gw1 on ps3 is still more active than bfn was at its peak. Why? Because its just the better game!
The worst part is they've also had promising ideas for singleplayer games but the people in charge are so lobotomized or afraid to give them the light of day that all that time and resources gets flushed down the drain and then wonder why pvz isnt just printing out money when their choices only get in the way of that!
Welp, with the newest redhead video out I think its safe to say the movement is dead or very diminished at best.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qjat5abM-uk&si=zTlC2l0DTGsJRtZW
Reactions are about what you'd expect. Fans just have given up or are venting their frustrations. Some still questioning the decision of analayzing anti cheat but being able to do nothing for the portal and so on.
I get it. Fans are just tired of what they believe to be the series rapid decline and i frankly don't blame them for just giving up at this point with pvz 3 around the corner.
Shame since it seems the community has expanded do the fanbase overall growing up over the years and those being able to do more thi ga for pvz like adding to meme complimations and such. Shame that anyone who now becomes interested will be long past the peak of the game.
It was nice seeing some new activity and people on here for change though. Atleast we got that out of all of this. Take care you guys.
