Most milked franchise

[Verkula]

personally, I think the star wars cow is dead. but that doesn't stop lucas from milking it for what it's worth somehow.
Even though I love almost all of them, Megaman is another license that just has been taken too far. I'm just waiting for "special-needs man" or something as equally ridiculous to come out as a robot master.

No, the Megaman series are never milked, i want more, More. Why cant Capcom be nice and release a new NES style classic episode this year? I would shower them with money and even buy the stupid DLCs.

(Also i want my SNES style X9 already...)

Come on Capcom, take it already.

 

[rutten]

FIFA, fo sho. Instead of bringing out a new game every 2-3 years and perhaps making team updates DLC, they bring out a 'new' game EVERY YEAR, which mostly involves them changing the controls a bit, updating the teams, and making the grass look shinier.

At least with games like Mario they mix it up a bit with things like Mario Party.

I'm not suggesting we have a 'FIFA Party' or a 'FIFA at the Olympic Games' (lol) as that would makes no sense and would probably be crap, albeit hilarious.

I AM suggesting, however, that, at 40 quid a pop EVERY YEAR, they could put more effort in than making Messi's face look a bit more like a photo.

FIFA is the definition of milking as it doesn't even try hard to sell itself as something different.

Other games that 'milk it':
The Sims (No, EA, I'm not paying my hard earned cash on a new skin for a virtual toaster..)
Civilisation (although it's kind of stuck in what it can do without moving into an RTS).
Tomb Raider

 

[AlternatePFG]

Also, as soon as they broke the "final" film into two parts, I gained the license to ***** about Harry Potter being milked. But I'd use my last breath to find something to ***** about, in regards to shitty teen angst tripe at least.

Well to be fair each book is longer and longer then the last so you can't really blame them.

7th book was at least 200 pages shorter than the 5th book, if I remember correctly. Ironically, the 5th movie is the shortest of all of them.

Edit: Actually scratch that, it was only about 100 pages shorter, my bad. Remember it being way longer than that though.

 

[rutten]

Also, as soon as they broke the "final" film into two parts, I gained the license to ***** about Harry Potter being milked. But I'd use my last breath to find something to ***** about, in regards to shitty teen angst tripe at least.

Well to be fair each book is longer and longer then the last so you can't really blame them.

7th book was at least 200 pages shorter than the 5th book, if I remember correctly. Ironically, the 5th movie is the shortest of all of them.

It's not like they sold us short though. We still got an awesome feature length per half of the last book. They say 'go out with a bang' and it did

 

[psicat]

The Half-Life series, it's being slowly and surely milked to death. And, the Guitar Hero games there have been well over a dozen of those things made in a relatively short time.

It's disturbing how stupid the points at attempt at hate that are practically only found on this website towards Valve and their game series.
Honestly, half life, milked? There hasn't even been a game for years now...

I did say slowly, but you can call all the ports, expansions, episodes, etc as an attempt to milk it yes. The fact that in my opinion some of the the quality was lost after the first doesn't help either. And, don't be such a fanboy if someone holds a different opinion than you it's not automatically hate, you don't see me pitching a fit so many people love to call two of my favorite series milked: Final Fantasy and Halo.

 

[Ramzal]

Madden. It is the most milked series ever, and people keep buying it over and over again for nothing more than a roster update. Hell, it's even encourages people to buy it from the reviews that game magazines or sites give them of 8's and 9's.

 

[crazypsyko666]

Instead I'll list the culprits:
Activision with their nonstop Call of Duty/Guitar Hero bullshit
Nintendo with every franchise ever
Microsoft with Halo
Lucasarts and everything Lucasarts has put out in the last few years.
The Final Fantasy brand has been less than final since it started.

 

[CK76]

Koei and its Warrior series. They release one every 6 months, Dynasty, Samurai, Gundam, etc.

Thing is, they barely change since 2002 or so when I played. I don't kind them, but really need another version so frequently?

 

[EternalFacepalm]

Half-Life. Valve has based all their reputation on one game and have been selling it (and it's mods) ever since.

No they haven't? They've been using the same engine, that's it. Half-Life has four games, over what, 12-14 years (tired, damn it)? That's not milking a franchise.

I'd say Call of Duty, but that's obvious. So is Halo. So is Final Fantasy.
Eh, Grand Theft Auto? They never seem to change to me, ever.

 

[Jonesy911]

Fucking Avengers and Justice League. I've never picked up a "standard" comic book in my life but it seems to me there are at least 1,000,000,000 different worlds, continuity's and reboots of those damn things

 

[Twad]

Final Fantasy; the more it goes the more they look like movies and not games.
Star Wars; so much potential, never used well imho.
Mario; Cmon nintendo. Do something new and creative for a change.

 

[DarkRyter]

Star Wars.

Probably. I think there's an image yahtzee made of a cow or something.

 

[Fursnake]

World Of Warcraft...one single game milks millions...

 

[Saulkar]

Sonic, Mario, Final Fantasy, COD, and Star Wars. I would say Halo but there is indeed effort and innovation put into ALMOST every release. To the OP, what is with your Avatar, I do not get it. The hammer and sickle over the Canadian flag, then again aside from any post soviet union nation, it would not make much sense on any none communist national flag.

 

[DarkRyter]

I know some will argue that Final Fantasy doesn't count because it's been around for more than a decade, but that doesn't change the fact that there's been well over twenty different games, remakes, reboots, and spin-offs within the series. Over twenty. At this point, even as they announce more titles to come, it's painfully obvious Square-Enix is milking the franchise.

Final Fantasy is a special case.

The main games are disconnected from one another, having extremely little (moogles, gil, aesthetic) in common, and having different gameplay and story for each one.

Square essentially just made 14 completely different games and gave them all one title.

There's no real sense of a "franchise" amongst them beyond the name.

 

[OldNewNewOld]

Mario; Cmon nintendo. Do something new and creative for a change.

Implying they aren't.

 

[Tax_Document]

Final Fantasy... Come on Square Enix, give up on riding the dead turtle, it was never fast to begin with.

 

[Mr. 47]

Mario for video games. Star Wars for everything else.

 

[XT inc]

Dunno can't really think of which one would technically hold the title.

When I think of milked franchises I think of consumer whores who have their hands in every ones pockets.

I guess I will go after pokemon.

The Tv series has a billion episodes, all of which are exactly, blah blah blah, team rocket intro to steal a pikachu(problem). The solution(...is blasting off again)

The card games and the games would still be fun if the series was about as rigid a definition of playing it save and vanilla as possible.

They are one of the most beloved franchises out there, but they are developers to their laurels as a snorlax is to the dirt road you wish to cross.

Some one aught to breathe some fresh air into their cookie cutter existence.