I wonder how many people would have been assuaged by the name change. X Rebirth was touted as not being a sequel of the X games and people were still extremely disappointed by what was in it.dtpsprt wrote: ↑Fri, 15. Jan 21, 16:39
Agree to that, even though I pose a simple question: If X4 is supposed to be the sequel of X3 why take away so much (with very little added in return)? With such drastic changes in game play (and I don't mean the new engine) it should be named something like "X Economy" or something leaving the X(put number here) to pasture... and everybody would have been dully warned that it is nothing like what they expected to find...
If it is from Egosoft and it has the X name. People are going to assume, whether justified or not, that it is an X game. I doubt that you would have come into the game and been any more satisfied if it was named "X - Executive Branch" or something to hint that it was focused on the economy more than other aspects of the game. Other games that tried it were not successful in not drawing comparisons from previous games by the developers. Think XCom Chimera Squad...people still compared it to XCom even though it was markedly different in some aspects.
Still with all of that said. It is still an X game. It is their universe and they have a right to name it whatever they want.
For my part I waited until it was a year old and then bought the collectors edition. Have not regretted it. I made sure there were things inside the game that I liked and wanted to play. I knew that Egosoft always has barebones launches. So I bided my time and have only been pleasantly surprised with every update and expansion. I'm sorry if you had a different experience.