10 Major Video Game Mistakes Of The 2010s The Next Gen Must Learn From

8. Annual Franchises

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There was a time where you would have to wait years upon years for a sequel to a game you enjoyed to come out, and even then there was a chance you wouldn't get one. But at the start of the 2010s we started to see certain franchises, such as Call Of Duty and Assassin's Creed pump out new entries every year. At first this seemed great, as we were just getting more of what we loved. But this didn't last forever.

Ten years later, and many of these annual franchises have burnt out. Call of Duty games will always sell well, but there's a reason their popularity has dipped over the years and been wildly inconsistent. Because you gave audiences too much! With so many games now aiming to release a sequel as quick as possible, it leads to many franchises become stagnant as they don't get enough time in development to actually evolve.

While waiting years upon years for a game isn't ideal, there's a certain golden area between yearly releases and waiting a decade. Give players time to speculate and get excited for a release while you make true improvments to the game, otherwise your game franchise is just going to become another franchise that people can't believe is still going.

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