Yeah. Games that like to end with teases or cliffhangers, or worse both, only really work if updates are often enough that people don't forget the entirety of the story by the time it comes out. That type of story telling works for a TV show since you know you only have 7 days to wait. Doesn't work as well when you have anywhere between 2 - 4 months to pick up where it left off.
The only time it does seem to work is when the storytelling is good enough to where the update to a game is an entire 'episode', so it feels like waiting for a new season to start with a TV show. Those games are few and far between sadly.