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There is a slight thing to note with C&C 3 and Kaine's Wrath though.
The writing was far and away on the wall. It wasn't so much as a "love letter" but a goodbye letter.
Quite frankly, without Kucan out there helping with the storyline (he basically created C&C as we know it) the games were pretty doomed.
4 was the epitome of it because they got rid of Kaine at the fucking end.
I'd say EA's problem is they want everything to perform the same as their sports gaming arm, which is frankly utterly impossible. Mostly because the sports arm keeps their shareholders happy. This is why insanity happens for things like C&C 4, Simcity, and the Deadspace Franchises. They placed high unit sales on them (in DS3's case it was some five million to save the series, it sold just 605,000) and then kill them when they're done.
Mind, this is because I don't think EA's particularly profitable any more, the rapid expansion in the mid 2000s may have holed their financial waterline more significantly than anyone around has realised. The significant fuckups of failing to revive Medal of Honor and the slow death of DICE with the DLC-by-a-thousand-bucks, the effective killing of Titanfall 2 by marketing indifference, and now the motherlode of Mass Effect Andromeda, possibly their flagship storytelling arm circling the drain.
Things look rotten, in the Kingdom of EA.
My prediction is we'll see them rummaging through all the IPs they own now and then desperately throwing things at a wall to see what sticks over the next few years, which will result in more fuck up because they will rush it.
After that we'll probably see a slow withdrawal from the field, taking lots of classic IPs with them to sit in their vault Smaug-like, never to be seen again.
