The alternative was to launch a half-baked WW3 with no real changes and then eventually decide to rebrand the whole thing to gain some popularity and just drop the 3.

https://lemmy.world/post/44387419

I guess the world is like Valve, no Half-Life 3, Portal 3, Left 4 Dead 3, World War 3, nothing.
L4D3 is called Back 4 Blood. 🤷‍♂️