Talk:A Courtesan of Rome/@comment-35059467-20181127190235/@comment-36398858-20181130191516

Telltale games had great success with TWD, and they tried to recapture it with each new game they released. Instead of anticipating that their games would reach a niche audience and that they should only expect modest growth, the company grew from an indie team to a giant studio, pumping out games based on expensive IPs such as Batman, Guardians of the Galaxy, Game of Thrones, even Minecraft. What the fans wanted were sequels to The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among us, but instead the company just kept churning out new games with expensive licences. Their sales continued to drop and they went bankrupt this year. Hundreds lost their jobs.

I’m not suggesting PB are going in exactly the same direction - they create original stories rather than buying expensive IPs to make books out of, and I’m sure they are unlikely to try to expand too quickly - but churning out loads of new stuff instead of creating sequels that fans want means two things: one, fans will feel ignored and eventually move on, and two, without sequels to carry over our choices, people will not feel as if their choices will have any kind of lasting impact and are likely to spend fewer diamonds.