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Originally Posted by hunvagy
It's not fair to condemn a project just because it's not like "that other game bearing the same name 18 years ago".
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It's not fair either to ride on the old franchise name and stick it to some modern crap, fooling people - us, clients - to buy it "for the old times sake".
The whole thing about brand loyalty seen from the client standpoint is that we expect products of constant quality and good post-purchase service. That's why we're willing to pay
more for products of a given brand, because we expect them to meet our standards as it was before. If we feel cheated (be it "Duke Nukem Forever is meh" or "George Lucas raped my childhood"), we no longer trust that brand, period.
It you say these are decent products, why can't they defend on their own, without the need of well established brand? Oh, but they're too scared to come up with something new... My claim is that they'd be unable to sell well some of the mediocre products if they weren't labelled with popular brand name.
It's not just about games. Think "Star Wars". If the new trilogy was just a series of new sci-fi movies, I'd say they're watchable, at least once. In few spots the special f/x were decent.
It is only because they're supposed to be in line with the old "Star Wars" why many people (like me) whine about.