How to Destroy Your Fanbase for Dummies!

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  • Call your customers entitled for expecting a properly functioning game at launch. - Hire people who hate the previous games in the series to work on the new ones. - Completely change the gameplay so that it plays absolutely nothing like the original games. - Change the art style so that it’s unrecognizable to your fans. - Add micro transactions to your game. - Don’t listen to your fans, especially if they have been asking you to stop changing the games for multiple years. - Have an ego the size of the United States. - Have saltine crackers as your moderators for your forums. - Ban anyone who speaks out against the game. - Launch a new game with 90% of the features of previous missing and try to sell it back as " free dlc " . - Make your fearless main character get depressed because he lost the computer he fell in love with. - Take a dump on your fans by completely ignoring them. - Rip features out of different games because you think it’s “hip”. - Destroy the game completely and make it into something it was never meant to be. - Think innovation is completely changing the game to the point where it is absolutely nothing like the original games in your series. - Continue to do the previous bullet point even though you customers have been speaking out against it for years. - Praise yourself for adding features in your game that were the staple of previous titles. - Launch a game that is so broken it becomes a meme and persist to not fix it. - Listen to the minority so that your entire fanbase can leave you. - Lie to your potential customers about a game you are going to release. - Take a steaming hot dump on the original games in the series and ignore everything that made it special and beloved by many. - Ignore the fact that half of your fans are leaving your game and that the sales are the worst in the series and persist to do the things that made that happen in the first place. - Focus more on weapon skins and micro transactions than the actual game.