One of the best to ever do it. 

Did they include any writing, plot or gameplay that isn’t total ass?

Just salivating to watch suicide squad servers get taken down before easter.

...how does that help them establish a recurring revenue stream, the point of the project?

Anrjtkgje.

Good. It would have sucked, wasted resources and invalidated what artistic merit there was to the series.

Pass.

Eh, Star Wars basically murdered all casual fans or fans who aren’t on board with Filonis hyper specific visions. There are still 2 core films that are largely credited for inspiring generations of cinema and the explosive spread of sci-fi in general.

“No one cares about avatar, I can’t believe everyone alive saw it based on gross receipts! I don't see any psychotic superfans poisoning everything around them with their "passion"! No one even makes death threats to the black people who stole their role from honest blue skinned actors!"

Id argue that it has more impact then, well, any MCU film, which only encourages the worst aspects of their better films.

It had little to do with Franchise and everything to do with James Cameron.

Or casual observation. Outside the immediate release windows of Taken King, Forsaken and Witch Queen, the game has generally always beem courting chaos.

Ubless you put it that high to justify the layoffs.

I have both, Microsoft is pretty much still the same flavor of evil they evere were.

All of which have always owned what they are - MMOs.

Nope.

Thats it. The same old men are in charge, wedded to the same stale ideas the rest of the world has moved on from.

They ripped out the heart, the open world exploration

There is no chance the average devs didn’t realize they had a stinker on their hands. Creative folks understand when what they’ve been a part of doesn’t turn out well. You pride yourself on having done your job and move on, the managers are obviously thr ones who drove the poor design choicds.

Not the worst game I played this year (that title can only go FF16), but certainly the worst Bethesda game I’ve played.