User blog comment:Callofduty4/Black Ops III Zombie reveal at SDCC/@comment-11942878-20150626000116/@comment-3967954-20150626164343

The thing about the old crew is that people just got attatched to them. There was no real characterization, it was just the fact that they were in almost every map in WaW/BO and then suddenly they disappeared in BOII. If they'd been scrapped after Der Riese, people probably wouldn't have cared as much.

I thought they were pretty cool at a time (i.e. when I was about 15-or-so), but I'm not bothered if they don't come back. Their "story" is done, let's move on please.