gaming Have you ever quit a franchise before ?

[SnowyPatch24]

So i was wondering has anyone quit a franchise before ? like final fantasy , call of duty and etc. ?

 

I decided to quit call of duty all together because of all the cheating and you will have to worry every time you play it on pc and hoping no one got a hold of it,

i thought naw it wouldn't ever happen to me and been playing the franchise since original modern warfare 3 the first cod back in the day i hit prestige in , but the the other day

i was doing one of the smg challenges and all of a sudden i was logged out and thought maybe the servers were down or the servers got ddosed , but what was also strange was

when i immediately quit out of the game and want to get on to Firefox to check the servers there was a file being downloaded with some letters, like example what i got : gxdyetoy html.

i quickly canceled that download and scanned with malwarebytes to be on the safe side (thankfully nothing happened) and decided yep im done xD and now im going to be learning about helldivers 2 lol.

 

also sorry if this is in the wrong section, been a long while since ive been on any forums XD

[WildDagwood]

Not necessarily franchises specifically but I'm definitely wary of a lot of developers/publishers comparatively to the past.

 

That said, here are a few:

• I haven't played a Battlefield game since BF2, BF 2142, and BC1.
• No interest in Diablo 4, despite adoring D2 and thinking D3 was fine.
• Played Counterstrike religiously from the original to source but havent gone back since.
• No EA sports games since 2015 or so.
• Assassin's Creed I stopped at AC3.
• Probably some more but I never really thought about it before.

I very much vote with my wallet though, so if a developer/publisher crosses any lines or gets too greedy I'm less likely to bother with their product, but will let independent reviews persuade me otherwise at times.

[TetraSky]

I quit Counter Strike after Source. 

I quit Final Fantasy after 12. That game was so bad... Tried getting into 15, couldn't. The active combat mechanic is not what I wanted from a final fantasy game. I did play the FF7 remake, but only out of nostalgia.

I haven't bought a single EA game after they ruined SimCity and closed servers left and right for games. Like DarkSpore.

Lost all interest in Diablo after D3. Didn't buy or play D4.

Age of Empire. I quit after the 2nd game.

So many more that I'm forgetting... For good reason.

 

I never got into CoD, Battlefield, MoH and the likes that were getting a new game every year or two. Never got into Assassin Creed either.

[Caroline]

I played Call of Duty until World At War and it was fine. Modern Warfare was different but still alright, though I liked the WW2 setting more. I didn't bother with the rest as I've read they were more of the same. And it still is, all of the games are basically the same copy-pasta with new skins and maps, there's nothing new about them anymore, it's just a moneygrab.

By the way, those games were already "old" when I got to play them, I didn't play at launch date.

 

8 hours ago, SnowyPatch24 said:

decided to quit call of duty all together because of all the cheating and you will have to worry every time you play it on pc

But it's not a COD issue, it's a gaming as a whole issue. Which is one of the reasons I don't touch any multiplayer game, cheaters are everywhere and they ruin the experience for everyone else, even more when it comes to "free" games. Once you know how games work, and what the "matchmaking algorithms" do, you don't wanna play anymore, I won't ruin it for you but all the games are basically rigged on purpose regardless of how good you are at them, it's like Casino, the house never loses, it's made in such a way you always try to return or buy passes, boosts, skins or whatever they're selling, "look at this new pass, it's only $1, don't you have $1? come on, buy it".

 

I quit Half-Life because VALVE WON'T MAKE THE THIRD GAME ^^

[Motifator]

I see ol' Carol is still tagging up some professionally silly remarks regarding all games having poor algorithms, like SBMM of COD or random generated loot in battle royale games, lmao.

Carol, have you even ever played games outside of the public trash like COD, PUBG, etc? Do you remember there were arena games back in the day where the algo would just spawn med kits and armor and bullets on a basis and being smart and skillful paved your way through? Not every game is designed so poorly the lucky idiot who sits camping in a shed gets to win the game out of 100 users lmao.

COD was still keeping on rolling on strong with the last game, but they messed it up after the launch as well. The Jailer and the new gulag, etc, COD loves to mess its own self up on a regular basis. Like change gun balance so much, the weapon you main primarily breaks out of nowhere and you have to grind another gun lol.

So yeah, I can safely say I pretty much quit COD after the first month of the last release. I quit other games like Resident Evil as well due to how much they started sucking during the last 2 titles.

There are things that would make me come back to some games, but several franchises were already dead in dog water when companies were making new ones to them. Like Battlefield. I don't game much at all anymore, so it takes something strong like a F.E.A.R reboot for me to get back into it... otherwise I just fly in MSFS, etc. Simulators... chill-out. Until I feel braindead flying around to almost nothing happening around anyway, lol.

[SnowyPatch24]

14 minutes ago, Motifator said:

So yeah, I can safely say I pretty much quit COD after the first month of the last release. I quit other games like Resident Evil as well due to how much they started sucking during the last 2 titles.
 

ahh dang i stated to actully like resident evil since RE:2 remake was my first one to fully play all the way through but still got claires story to finish up then get RE:4 to continue leons story while ill just watch the 3rd one on youtube lol, buut i also got to finish up  spongebob battle for bikini bottom rehydrated for the achievements XD

 

but ya sbmm really ruined it  plus that weird file that was downloading after i got logged out...for some reason.

 

but anyways i also tried battlefield to, i really liked to play battlefield...i think it was 3 or 4 that had a good campaign in it but other then that and 2042 for a tad bit , i hardly ever can get into it.

[Andreas Lilja]

Spyro the Dragon after Enter the Dragonfly. War crime. 

 

Output was pretty much consistent shit until the relatively recent remaster of the first three. 

[Stahlmann]

I don't play most of the game series I grew up with anymore. But it's not that I deliberately quit. It's just that I lost interest in those types of games when I grew up, and even the newer entries in the Battlefield or Call of Duty series for example just don't appeal to me anymore. I'm not boycotting any game series or developer/publisher, but it's harder for me to convince myself to buy games from EA or Ubisoft. If they still release a great game, I will probably buy it.

 

Voting with your wallet doesn't just mean not buying games, it also means buying games that are moving in the right direction.

 

Ultimately, in the long run, developers and major publishers will simply follow the money, and hopefully that means that social justice warriors who have no real skills to contribute to a better game and are just doing it to send a message will be filtered out.

[Paddo]

COD after/during Cold War

Heroes of Might and Magic after IV

THPS after Underground 2

Need for Speed after Most Wanted (2005)

Battlefield after 4

World of Warcraft after Battle for Azeroth (Still bought the Dragonflight collectors edition but didn't play)

Counterstrike after Source

 

I know I'm missing some but those are the first that came to mind.

 

 

[Stahlmann]

8 hours ago, Caroline said:

Once you know how games work, and what the "matchmaking algorithms" do, you don't wanna play anymore, I won't ruin it for you but all the games are basically rigged on purpose regardless of how good you are at them, it's like Casino, the house never loses, it's made in such a way you always try to return or buy passes, boosts, skins or whatever they're selling, "look at this new pass, it's only $1, don't you have $1? come on, buy it".

The ideal matchmaking solution works in such a way that every player should end up at a rank where they have a ~50% win rate, i.e. playing against other players of the same skill level. It's not rigged to make you lose unless you're already playing at a much higher rank than you should be in terms of skill. It's other players playing against the rules, like smurf accounts or cheaters in general, that ruin it, not a matchmaking algorithm.

 

And I haven't heard any ideas that would fix matchmaking in every game. People often want to play with their friends, who probably don't play at the same skill level most of the time. So unless you want to prevent people from playing with their friends, you can't really fix it. And at this point, you can just leave multiplayer out. Playing with friends is also probably the biggest reason why smurf accounts exist. Because good players cannot play with their friends if they use their main account, which is much higher ranked.

 

I have no idea what matchmaking has to do with microtransactions. So far, I haven't played a game where matchmaking is correlated with pressuring people to buy microtransactions. Maybe you mean social pressure, where higher ranking players tend to show off more expensive skins, etc. But I have no sympathy for people who fall for the slightest bit of social pressure. Competitive games typically don't have gameplay benefits built into their Battle Passes.

[Motifator]

There is no ideal matchmaking, what about having bad days and then better ones during the gaming session? What you said was tried as well and some games failed with it, you would still get automatically SBMM'd down to the starter level. If the game counts your wins and losses automatically and puts you in a certain room, you can guarantee the game is creating a walled garden for their player base.

The only games that don't do this, are the ones that truly lack SBMM aka old school multiplayer shoot em ups like Counter-Strike Source, Unreal Tournament, etc. You know the old style drill.

SBMM is truly evil and should go by any means possible. Or at least, like in R6 Siege, include modes where it's ranked with SBMM, and where unranked without SBMM. See, solutions exist. You don't need to tweak the SBMM evil to make a man out of a game.

[da na]

5 minutes ago, Motifator said:

Unreal Tournament

Aye, Unreal Tournament mentioned!

 

Don't even bother joining an online match unless you have the fastest reflexes in recorded history. Immediate death at spawn  

[Caroline]

16 hours ago, Motifator said:

I see ol' Carol is still tagging up some professionally silly remarks regarding all games having poor algorithms, like SBMM of COD or random generated loot in battle royale games, lmao.

Carol, have you even ever played games outside of the public trash like COD, PUBG, etc? Do you remember there were arena games back in the day where the algo would just spawn med kits and armor and bullets on a basis and being smart and skillful paved your way through? Not every game is designed so poorly the lucky idiot who sits camping in a shed gets to win the game out of 100 users lmao.

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I might be a moron, but PUBG? me? ugh, that's too much. I haven't touched anything online, ever.

This is the entirety of my games folder.

 

Carol sounds like I'm 70 years old I don't remember arena games, I know UT exists but it's not something I'd play.

[kaiju_wars]

Battlefield, Assassin's Creed, Overwatch, Fallout.

 

I've quit several, for different reasons of just, losing interest, or if the company that owns said franchise is just scummy af.

[porina]

I guess Final Fantasy is the biggest name I'm dropping. The move to action based combat kills it for me. I have exactly zero interest in action combat style games. Last I bought was XV, and don't think I got past the 1st chapter. I actually spent more time in the AC crossover they did, and I don't like AC much either. I didn't bother at all with XVI or VIIR, beyond the demo just to make sure I still dislike it.

 

On a parallel note, I got Gran Turismo 7 when I got a PS5. The two have gone together since practically forever, and to me is the best racing game series. But it felt old. Graphics were better than ever, but it was essentially the same game. I just wasn't interested in doing the same thing yet again. I forget exactly which older version it was, they added a B-spec side mode where you're a manager instead of driver. I kinda liked that and hope they flesh it out into its own game. Probably wont though.

 

Oh, speaking of doing the same thing over and over again. Pokemon. I was a very late starter, my first was HeartGold on DS. I played the main games to... the Hawaii one? I think it was the last one was on the 3DS. Again, it felt like basically every game was the same. You go out, collect pokemon, battle gyms, and eventually the elite 4. Places might be different, pokemon might be different, and graphics got improved. But you're fundamentally doing the same thing. I wanted a high res version of the game at the time. We got Switch. Nintendo are almost dead to me now. I still play Pokemon Go, but that's more a side thing.

[atxcyclist]

CoD has really not been all that interesting to me the last several years, I happily get World at War going from time to time as I think it’s the newest one I truly enjoy. 
 

Gran Turismo is a great series, but the licensing rigmarole got obnoxious at a certain level and I stopped bothering with them.

 

WoW consumed a large part of my life for a few years, I free-played it last year and it didn’t take a hold so I didn’t subscribe again.

[thrasher_565]

i quit blizzard. after diablo 3 did not buy immortal or d4.

also would quit bethesda but would play fo3 fo4 shelter. most likely dont play anything more.

have not gotten cyberpunk ether

wont play anything ea ether or anything new.

[DeerDK]

Tried WoW once, back in the early days, I afterwards swore never to play that again. I knew myself well enough to know that i would be utterly obsessed if i allowed myself to get started.