Puyo Puyo. The three best games in the series were Puyo Puyo 15th Anniversary, Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary, and Puyo Puyo Chronicle (25th in all but name). None of these games ever got released outside of Japan, but after the crossover did well overseas there were high hopes in the community we’d get a similar mainline game for the series’ 30th anniversary.

I wrote a very long essay about how that didn’t happen, and the state of the series ever since. And a more recent followup video on Sega’s newest blunder.

For the Sims 20th anniversary we got a free hot tub in the Sims 4 base game. It was ugly, and before the aniversary the hot tub as a selling point for a paid pack, so the people who spent money to get hot tubs got kinda mad.

Genshin Impact blundered on their first aniversary. To be fair people’s expectations were impossibly high; but they gave slightly less than an average event.

Did Capcom even do anything for Breath of Fire’s 30th last year? Fuck’s sake, if you’re not going to give me a real BoF 5 (we don’t talk about Dragon Quarter), then at least put 3 and 4 on Steam/Switch with updated sprites. I’ll pay $20.

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I experienced Sonic 06 recently. It may have been subpar but it actually wasn’t terrible. But you know what example this question does make me think of? Club Penguin. Long story short, Disney bought it only to shut it down because they then considered it a burden.

Maybe they didn’t acknowledge it because it’s kind of embarrassing?