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People have impossible individualized expectations for games based on other games, especially hardcore fans of the original. They can't see a modified game concept as a standalone thing, regardless if it's good or bad, they will always draw parallels to the original. This would be fine if every single person expected the same thing from a spinoff game, but literally every single person expects something different, to the point where the only way you would ever make the majority happy is to make a carbon copy of the original. This is one of the reasons expecting an existing community to be the basis of a spinoff's community is a bad idea.
The only way I could see a successful reinvention of the fortress concept is either to start a community of completely new players or present it in a way that's different enough from the original (eg not as a fortress game) that people don't draw parallels and can see the game for what it is.
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