People become bord with games that dont change. As Wings Of Fire quoted, shooters had became all the rage and not many were interested in games where you play as a helpless being that can't even properly defend itself. And so they changed to suit the audiance. I personlay would have liked it if they carried on with the quintology, but this probably would have only attracted people who were already fans of Oddworld. Besides, the basic Oddworld story is still there (industry ruins character's life, character blows up industrial facility, natives become free and happy, etc). And the changed environments? Well, the environments in AO, AE, and MO were all different. What about the creaures? Well maybe Paramites and Scrabs are only native to Abe's region (seeing as they were almost hunted to extinction and all). Sekto might have prefered hiring Wolvarks rather than Sligs and Mudokons might prefer living in the East. Gabbits lived in the Mongo River, so if there were any left apart from Munch and his Gabbiar I reckon we may have seen them.
Anyway, the point is that things have to move on in life to attract new audiances and still be appealing. The fact that Abe wasn't in SW doesn't matter to me. After all, I don't think he was going to be in all of the Quintology games (I may be wrong though). And so after a long post, I finaly say this:
I like vanilla ice cream!
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