The only way this kinda movies are able to be "good" again is to have ideas from scratch with all people already in there and no Disney involved at all, like a nolan-ish kind of director and people working with them that come up with an idea all together, not a Disney script and then choose people already in their staff and let's see how it goes.
The key formula to save franchises today is just to force Disney to step aside, no matter if they are actual owners of the rights. And the second is to stay away from formulas.
Whaaat, this article is wrong. WTF, you are trying to legitimize live service games?. Every single game needs a new map, period. WTF.
The only legit way is to add expansions (NOT DLCs) to keep on with the same map (and even in this case sometimes it's better to expand). DLCs have a hidden potential to be pure spam, the concept is perverse, it's perverted and corrupt. We should never use it. Expansions on the other hand should double the game length for half the price (or in huge games like cdpr games, 20-30h is fine enough), and cdpr is extremely honest and fair with this dlc/expansion issue.
Any other way of seeing this is legitimizing dishonest business models. The fact that this article is written by a self-called gamer... pfff what a pity.
The case of cp2077 in particular is kinda different because of the massive failure at start that canceled possible future expansions. And that's it. We are lucky to have at least 1. You cannot take cp2077 as an example. CDPR is one of the few companies with the balls to say: let's scrap everything, clean slate. But it's just because the context, nothing more. If it happened to be a blast since day one a couple of expansions might have happened or even 3 (at most that for sure). But we have what we have and that's it. CDPR is an example like no other of good fair pro-gaming pro-industry decisions (Being EA Ubi Activision Konami Bethesda Blizz etc the exact opposite).
DO I need to buy them again? I have all original, i play them every now and then. Are they free. They should by now. Also, War1 and 2 amd D1 are 100% playable through NaCl support in browser, no need for more.
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