>>11240446I want them to end Halo because it died when Bungie moved on. They need to bring back a modern warfare line, either generic/original theme or maybe with the Battlefield license. Revivals of Pyrates and Dragons would be cool, or a new theme in those settings.
They were able to carve out a respectable niche over the last decade by offering stuff their direct competitor Lego didn't have, until recently at better prices too. They've become too much of a catch-up company after riding the Halo/CoD/Poke train for so many years, able to weather setbacks such as the WoW flop, AssCreed underwhelming and Destiny not panning out when the games didn't get nearly as big as Halo or CoD. GoT was an especially ill-timed gamble, coming in the decline of their flagship franchises and at the tail end of that series.
Expensive one-offs à la Haslab model just suck; if they want to draw in a larger crowd they need a line with impulse buy-priced sets as well as the big spendy ones, hell that's how I tested the waters with every Mega line starting with Halo Wars. It wasn't even that great a set - clutch was bad and it was a weird turret that wasn't actually in any Halo game (maybe something like it was somewhere in Halo Wars). However, it came with three Spartan minifigs and they were freaking awesome, more than enough to hook me in. They kept my interest in the line as they worked out the many bugs through the initial waves, introducing more armor variants and other figs for them to battle with or alongside. The pitiful weapons selection in the first wave even worked to their advantage, I remember getting excited when they released a set with a new sniper rifle, a small and cheap set too.
I imagine there's factors above and beyond what we the consumers perceive that guide their current questionable decision-making; doesn't make it any less tragic how far they've fallen in just the last few years.
