User blog comment:DisturbedDeaddMan/Why I Lost Interest and Excitment for Any New Release (Personal Opinion)/@comment-26069469-20190225031628

So true. It's really sad, tbh. I have been here since early 2017, and wow what a time that was. I've seen the rise and the now fall of this company.

When I first found this game it was so epic. I dived into Endless Summer and I was hooked, that was SUCH a good story. Then there was MW, TF book 1/2, THoBM, and all these amazing books. The stories were heartwrenching, epic, the plotline was developed, planned in advance, and the chapters were SO LONG. And then we got Hero later that year, another epic story. I also intently enjoyed the experience, the journey, and the characters in the short lived #LoveHacks. Heck, I even enjoyed ROE. It was a long journey.

Then later in the year we had It Lives and HSS. Both very good, miles better than today's work, but imo, not as good as golden Choices. Those, imo, were the last good books from this series, and the last time PB tried.

Ever since then, we've had books that were female-only for no good reason (except, perhaps, laziness), the chapters are REALLY short (Heist, HSSCA, etc). They've started writing only what THEY want to - not Hero, not It Lives 3, they dumped the HSS cast to make a lazier book, they threw out the laziest, most cliche book ever in RODABBR. All the books have a plotline that is so simple, so one-dimensional, it's frustrating. There's no secrets, no layers to the plot (or characters), and no emotion. Events just happen and do not faze the characters. Most books have filler chapters that just contains hookup scenes and a party. You don't feel anything while reading these books, there's no emotion, no journey, sigh.

--- they've even collapsed so much, ES' third book was plagued with many hiatuses and it was only 12 short (and underwhelming) chapters.

It's been bad or meh book after book for me. The last book I really could not wait to play every day was ILITW.

Most books are total money grabs, almost totally romance based, and filled with bland characters and lazy/simple plotlines.

They're just trying to throw out 20 books every few months to get money rather than making thoughtful and impactful stories. Sure, there are books I can 'enjoy', but nothing amazing.

And the worst thing is, I doubt they will ever get better. Only worse. RIP.