Good franchises that were cancelled due to bad direction?

[the-pi-guy]

There's a new rumor that Watch Dogs is dead, because Legion was a failure. Which seems like a big shame, because the franchise had an interesting premise.

[Legend]

Elite Dangerous kinda counts, although it's still alive with thousands of players.

Has had trouble with its updates but the "spacelegs" expansion in 2021 killed its future. 39% positive on steam and that's even with newer reviews thinking it's decent. Now I'm pretty sure the devs are just keeping the player base happy with much less investment.