Crash Team Rumble Season 2 Crash-Lands On Xbox With All New Co-Op Mode

After about 10 hours of this article being up, I am the second comment. I think that says it all about the indifference to this game.

And I’m the third commenter on this article. And that’s over 15 hours after the last comment.

But also referencing the first comment, by @Maddie47, this seems to be a potential problem in the lifecycles of modern games:

People don’t want to pay for a game that isn’t going to last, and so there aren’t many people playing the game. And yet, as soon as a game decides to switch business models and become a “free” experience, those same people tend to get upset about excessive monitization, and so they stop playing the game. From then on, the developers see the declining player counts, and decide to stop trying to make a great game, as it’s supposedly not worth the effort. At that point, they now have alienated the customers who don’t want to pay yet expect great content, as well as the customers who are more than willing to pay for a complete experience. And eventually, whether due to the developer seeing a lack of revenue from the title, or players not being satisfied with the dearth of content in the title, the game is shut down. And because the game is shut down, the players are angry with the developers, yet the developers say they shut it down because of low engagement and/or lack of revenue. And the cycle begins again with the next announcement of a F2P/Live Service game.