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Do you think there is any game out there that could benefit from being forked to into two games?
Imagine you take a game with a deeply divided community as it approaches an expansion. Rather than trying to cater to both sides at once or maintain servers with a slightly tweaked ruleset, you set up two development teams, have each of them go off seperately to make an expansion focused on their "half" of the community: different map changes, different lore additions, different systems created, different rebalance decisions. The game then makes a clean break - each new game has a copy of all the characters before the expansion upgrade so you get to choose which game, which universe, to continue in (or you subscribe to both games, presumably at a discount).
Ignore the economics of duplicating all the work and infrastructure for a moment.
What game would you fork? Along what faultline in the player community would you offer to split it? In what direction would you send each of the two teams?
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Thought you were quoting Johnny Dangerously...
At any rate I would like to immediately discount Star Wars Galaxies from being mentioned as it will doom your thread. DOOOOOOM