The majority of consumers will buy any ****** FPS (Infinite Warfare) so the developers don't care enough to get better. It's called voting with your wallet. I choose not to buy and support these ****** titles. I bought Overwatch and am more than satisfied. I'm looking forward to Tekken 7 in June. Nothing else has been on my plate.

However, in terms of persistence. Most FPS don't care about it. They want fair fights that come down to skill. So having inherently better gear because you've played longer than someone else comes across as lousy to most players. Dust was not a pure FPS. It's an MMORPGFPS. Basically Runescape & Battlefield smashed together. It was a pioneer in the field, but it failed badly and CCP lost a lot of credibility in a time that it needed it. It will probably be a while before any MMORPGFPS comes along because Legion promises to be a lobby shooter that is built to appeal to the majority of players and be profitable rather than go for a minority of players.

CCP is done experimenting. They took forever to create Dust and it left them with nothing. They want results. A standard lobby shooter will give them those results. Hence they will go for that model.

Nailed it.

In short, as game budgets increase, the risk associated with them also increases. That being said, companies investing a lot of money are going to want to make sure it's something that's going to deliver a returned. Namely....make when you know has worked in the past. This is why so many games feel "same-y" when a developer releases a "new AAA title". No one wants to take risks when you're dropping tens of millions of dollars...they just want to guarantee a return.

This is also why you tend to see indie game developers trying new things more often. Smaller budget, less risk, more willingness to experiment.

Whenever I hear "Triple A game" I just kinda groan, because you already know what it's going to be like.

Just take a look at the gaming industry. I'm not trying to say that there is no good games and everything goes down to ****, but over the years there is more and more cash grab games.

How many of the new bigger titles come as beta or a ******* pre alpha? Tons, literally. Why would they deliever a completed game when you can deliever an incomplete game, still in beta, with bugs, with cut out story to be sold in DLCs (oh... the DLCs) and people still buy it! Gladly to that!

Well, it's disappointing. I went back to a lobby shooter I used to play before Dust (called A.V.A). Still having fun after what they did to it. Having some faith in CCP's project.

Overwatch seems fun, Playerunknown's Battleground (some fun with NL and bois) looks fun. But that'd be it I think.