Thread 716359202

>sell miIlions
>your entire series still gets destroyed
How the fuck does that work exactly? What is proper success to these corporate mongrels

>>716359202 (OP)
Crash 4 sold bad, Activision lost interest

>>716359202 (OP)
Crash 4 sold fucking billions; don't ask for proof.

>>716359202 (OP)
it's ok for franchises to come to an end, not everything needs to be made forever

>>716359202 (OP)
>spend $90,000,000 to make product
>earn $90,000,000 selling product

>>716359202 (OP)
>We don't need three teams for these games
>Send two to the CoD mines
>Ok TfB you can make these games now
>Oh no you made two shitty games in a row!
>This must stop

>>716359202 (OP)
You think the company behind Call of Duty and Candy Crush cares? The company that bought and homogenized Blizzard to be a glorified MTX and mobile game company? Or the ones that killed Crash and Spyro beforehand in 2009? They didn’t give a single fuck about them.

LET IT DIE IN PEACE

>>716359520
how can you spend 90 trillions making a shitty ass looking game like spyro or crash? its like pretending mario garbage is expensive to make

Crash 4 is a spit on the face of what made the trilogy good.
They also blew all their good will turning CTR into a microtransaction-fest that doesn't even have cross-play or a PC port.

>>716359885
Those DEI consultants don't come cheap.

>>716359202 (OP)
buddy
this is activision
they don't give a single capital F if you sell well
unless you're cod, you're nothing

>>716359202 (OP)
every yacht should sink all of a sudden and all insurance claims should be denied.

>>716359631
Yeah, Vicarious Visions weren't perfect but I loved Future Tense and Beenox is just all around good.
Why oh why did it have to be TFB?

>>716359202 (OP)
Toys for Bob is making Spyro 4

>>716359631
>>716361675
They literally had three teams for Skylanders which these devs moved to Crash/Spyro to
They had a winning formula keeping the series in rotation with throwing in Tony Hawk in between

>>716359202 (OP)
>How the fuck does that work exactly?

Steamies don't play the games they buy as Crash 4 proved.

>>716361795
This applies to literally all games. What makes this one different?

>>716361795
most people don't beat the games they buy on any platform.

>>716361904
>>716361916
Crash trilogy gave them confidence based on sales to make a Crash 4 which sold terribly

>>716359202 (OP)
It's a sobering realisation that both of these franchises are like 75-90% shit.

>>716361963
Maybe they shouldn't have made it shit then.

>>716361795
>>716361963
Yeah the trilogy only sold because of '90s nostalgia being profitable, no one really cares about Crash as a franchise. See the PS2/OG Xbox era ones that legit nobody gives a fuck about

>>716362143
Twinsanity has a bit of a cult following.
Also, Crash 4 is just a weird game where most of the reviews are "This is alright... if you don't try to 100% it" which is half the fun of a crash game.

>>716361904
>This applies to literally all games. What makes this one different
A single playthrough of ANY of those games is about 3-5 hours, extremely easy to complete, it can be done one or two gaming sessions, yet steamies show they don't play games

Sell millions years later at massively discounted prices

Activision basically killed every studio that isn't making cawadooty it's not even an exaggeration. Crash 4 could have sold 10 million and it would have still been told to make Epstein skins for the new battle pass. The only other thing left is Diablo I'm pretty sure.

>>716362241
Which has to do with... what exactly? People on steam not playing games has no bearing on whether Activision will see profits from sales.

I'll always be annoyed how spyro was handled

>>716362238
That's because people are more interested in what the game MIGHT have been, rather than what it ended up being. It was okay, but arguably worse than all the Naughty Dog games.

>>716362143
Thats a lie. CNK, the handhelds up until Boom Bang, A Heroes Tail, Twinsanity and even CTTR have their own fanbases that overlap with the PS1 crowd who also grew up with those games. Its the Titans/LOTR reboot of Spyro games that alienated people.

>>716361795
This is what happens when you cater to e-celebs. You get money through normalfag non-gamers who parrot the opinions their parasocial narrative enforcers (AKA brainwashers) tell them to have, and the quality of games continues to decrease while everyone around tells you "gaming has never been better."

>>716359202 (OP)
Call of Duty triples those sales every year on their live service model with a third of the staff required just pumping skins.

Getting canned by Activision would be the fate of any franchise when the suits look at Call of Duty profits and cost of operation and ask, "why the fuck bother with anything else?"

new spyro game will literally be announced this year, and i think it will feature in a switch 2 direct but it will be full multiplat

TFB was one of the factors. They really thought that Crash MOBA or whatever would be a hit.

What did we do to deserve this?

>>716359202 (OP)
Earning 30m a month as your profit floor like Wuthering Waves or FIFA. Yes, it's silly.

>>716359202 (OP)
These two franchises deserve better than to be owned by Activision and now Microsoft. Sony would not be a good fit for them either though. I think at this point there probably is no good fit for them since even Nintendo went to shit and they have enough mascot characters in their library.

>>716359202 (OP)
Crash 4 bombing made me realize Banjo-Threeie would likely do worse

>>716362723
>Fortnite plastic look
>MOBA with shitty OC's one of them being an actual tranny
Fate worse than death.

>>716359202 (OP)
These were always meant to nostalgia bait retards without actually making a new game. They never intended to make more.

>>716362723
too many furries in the fanbase. its completely deserved.

>>716359202 (OP)
because crash 4 was so fucking bad they decided to just axe the entire thing

>>716362539
The moba was obviously scrapped DLC for 4.

>>716363321
How hard could it possibly be to make a visually-faithful remake? You'd think it's impossible with how NO remake on earth does #2
If there is one, please tell me

>>716365617
Guess it should have stayed scrapped.

>>716365617
moba is such a horrible name for assfaggots, you can call crash rumble a moba and not even be wrong.

>>716359202 (OP)
These franchises would likely still be alive if not for Microsoft buying Activision. I think Microsoft killed those projects

>>716359290
>20 million copies
>"sold bad"

>>716368863
That's N. Sane Trilogy in the OP, not Crash 4, retard-kun

>>716359202 (OP)
They can't make new games and they know it.

>>716369108
>20 million for Crash 4 is bad
Okay, boomer.