Quote Originally Posted by Lihtleita View Post
Tomb Raider was their second most profitable ip behind FF

My guess is its because the same studio responsible for TR made Marvels Avengers
Ah the old EA-style cycle. Force a company to implement a new monetisation model at the expense of gameplay, then punish them when the monetisation model doesn't perform as well as projections based on some rival companies project that already saturated the market.