re: Game Franchises That Were Ruined for Money

Star Wars Galaxies

Not a franchise but it was drastically changed for money. The game went through two major shifts that ultimately led to its death.

First they put in the "Combat Upgrade" - This drastically changed the game to be more like WoW. It was bearable because everything else stayed the same.

They then decided that the player base had not shrunken enough and did the "New Game Experience" and tried to completely "WoW up" the game and made it class based and very very very shitty.

The original SWG is still my favorite game of all time and it makes me mad to think how bad sony screwed it up