If they drive off the hardcore gaming community by adding more and more casual elements like pay for win, double-DRM and dumped down gameplay, the franchise wil

If they drive off the hardcore gaming community by adding more and more casual elements like pay for win, double-DRM and dumped down gameplay, the franchise will go downhill. For example open world games usually center around vehicles to move around vast amount of map-terrain. You can make the driving physics (the central gameplay element) arcady and fun (like GTA San Andreas) or realistic and still fun (like GTA 4 or Mafia 1+2). Or you don't care and get the driving mechanics mediocre like most such games (GTA V, Watch Dogs, Sleeping Dogs, Need for Speed, etc.)