Did it "flop" though? Not that I am defending the game, but I thought it had healthy sales. People bought it because they liked the first game. A good franchise can coast off it's earlier popularity even after getting woke. Basically spending the fan credit they banked.
e.g. Mass Effect 3 was a disaster, but that didn't truly show through until Andromeda.
People don’t seem to understand that popular IP and creators tank after their first bad game. Look at The Last Jedi. It made $1.3 billion, but it was a failure because of what it did to Star Wars. None of what followed was good either, but TLJ was the first real misstep. People just had to pay to see it in order to find it.
TLJ was so bad that Episode 9, which should have been close to a 3 billion dollar movie like Infinity War and Endgame, barely made more money than Joker and Joker wasn't even released in China.
Did it "flop" though? Not that I am defending the game, but I thought it had healthy sales. People bought it because they liked the first game. A good franchise can coast off it's earlier popularity even after getting woke. Basically spending the fan credit they banked.
e.g. Mass Effect 3 was a disaster, but that didn't truly show through until Andromeda.
People don’t seem to understand that popular IP and creators tank after their first bad game. Look at The Last Jedi. It made $1.3 billion, but it was a failure because of what it did to Star Wars. None of what followed was good either, but TLJ was the first real misstep. People just had to pay to see it in order to find it.
TLJ was so bad that Episode 9, which should have been close to a 3 billion dollar movie like Infinity War and Endgame, barely made more money than Joker and Joker wasn't even released in China.