Although I didnt think your post was entirely serious of course, jokes usually have some sense of a humorous & light hearted tone, whereas Ebola and wishing death on others doesnt exactly seem very funny to most or give off any form of a light hearted tone so guess you can understand why people were confused... As well as including words like 'ruining' and 'ranting' in the same statement was all very negative and didnt sound much like a joke.
Admittedly I did rage a bit in there as I tend to get really angry when that damn reboot comes to mind and the fact that it's fanbase is so f**king stupid and has shockingly low standards.
Most games these days seem to have Season Passes (which can of course be ignored) but in some cases can save people cash in long run (Telltale Games Episodes are cheaper). Though I dont like the idea behind them, some actually do work in gamers favour to save cash if they were interested in the included content anyway. I mainly dislike that for lots of games you dont even know what you are paying for in the season passes until the content is released. Though I recently heard that
Battlefront is having a $50 season pass that has been announced already and when a game only costs $60 its getting out of hand. Gamers better get the equivalent of another games worth of content for that price and not simply a couple of modes/characters/weapons here and there.
Story DLC is nothing new and if done well Story DLC is expected and even welcomed (Witcher III/Skyrim for example) so thats not a bad thing in grand scheme of a game. Microtransactions can also be ignored so although I personally hate them I ignore them in all games anyway and never pay extra for content I think should be unlockable by playing the games, if everyone did the same then companies wouldnt include them.
Yeah all those things are optional, but they are still harmful to the players in the long run and that's what TR Reboot lovers deserve in my opinion, after thinking it over more it's good that the past direction ended before it started getting infected with the corporate poison.
Every gamer knows that a combination of Season Passes, Story DLC and Microtransactions means the game had content cut to be released separately and if this stuff continues to happen in 10 years time or even sooner we'll end up paying $60-$120 per level.
Not to mention it's Square Enix, the brilliant minds who thought up Deus Ex 4s fantastic pre order system.
I'm sure all the DLC and Micros with Rise of the Tomb Raider was not cut from the game since Square Enix is a very trust worthy company right?
Although this thread has nothing to do with Tomb Raider I personally got the reboot for free with Xbox Live Gold and although I have only played it briefly I have enjoyed it and I was a fan of the originals (well the first few anyway). I might get the sequel at some point but none of those points will really bother me in grand scheme of things as I simply wont use them, same as anyone else who doesnt like them. So not exactly a punishment as such I guess as at least the series is still being made and some fans can still enjoy playing the series and there is a chance that the series could one day eventually appeal to even those fans who arent currently on board if they listen to feedback and continue to work on things. Those 'negatives' you pointed out aside it seems that they are listening to fans for the sequel too
in some cases.
The reason I despise the new Tomb Raider is not because it's not the classic "badass" Lara or no actual tomb raiding.
I despise it because there is absolutely nothing Tomb Raider about it what so ever.
It's nothing more than a generic cover shooter with every possible modern gameplay cliche in the book, scripted events, QTEs, regen health, cutscenes, handholding, you name it, it has all the crappy tropes and it sucks.
It infuriates me even more that this is what 8 million + people want out of gaming now, we may as well hand everything over to Activision and EA.
To get back to a point that is on topic, without the reboot of some titles/franchises future titles in that series might not even exist and without the reboot in Tomb Raiders case I believe the series may have been shelved. In some regards the same could be said about DMC in the long run, DmC has kept people talking about the series and although controversial it got fans talking again and now there is hope for a true DMC 5. I would rather a company still continue a series in a new direction and have that chance that the title I want could still come at some point than them killing the series off entirely (doesnt bother me personally either way with DMC or DmC). Cutting off their nose to spite their face some might say...
The "You either die an original IP or you live long enough to see yourself become the next CoD." quote applies there.
I'd rather it die being something I love rather than it live on as something I'll despise.
I don't think there's much more to discuss on the topic until we hear anything. We've already had a TR debate because there is no solid evidence of anything.