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Not at all. The game when Fenoxo alone worked on was smaller, slower, and way worse. Updates were way slower and less substantial, and there was very little variety. The actual scenes were also way worse, as Fenoxo got better at writing as he went, and you could really tell when he wrote something he wasn't interested in - the scenes were a lot more lifeless compared to the stuff he was into.CoC started out with fen as the one and only writer, and developer. it exists because fen wrote it, and it was relatively good. Crowdsourcing was added after the fact, it was not the reason for the game's creation. crowdsourcing made it worse and then finally killed it.
Accepting submissions greatly increased the pace and scope of the game. The problem was simply that it was his first game and he never intended it to become as big or popular as it did. The code was creaky, he hadn't set up any stipulations for abandoned characters, there was barely a plot to move forward, and every update was basically just a new camp waifu character with no purpose.
What "killed" CoC was Fenoxo got better at making games and wanted to start fresh.
These games wouldn't be possible to make without crowdsourcing or more accurately, wouldnt be succesful enough to warrant 3(.5) games. There's been discussion around here before about possible competitors to these games like Liliths Throne, and they all just put out too little content too slowly..CoC2 is an unrelated game by unrelated devs which just recycles the name from the first game in order to draw in customers. It exists because there was a name to be milked, not because of crowdsourcing.
I attribute its existence to the fact that there was a proven model to take advantage of. Some game would exist with or without CoC's name.And while it was designed with crowdsourcing in mind from the beginning, you can't really attribute its very existence to crowdsourcing. and many of the problems in the game actually stem from crowdsourcing.
TiTs exists, and it isn't trading off CoCs name...but it does use the crowdfunding model. When the next game comes out, it's not gonna be another CoC sequel, but it will, once again, use a similar model to produce content. Because that's the primary ingredient in the success of these games.