It feels like all these studios are gambling on scoring big with huge hits of epic proportions, so they’re going for 5+ years of development on huge budgets with hundreds, if not thousands, of folks working on that 1 big project …
… and occasionally that does happen, so they release something truly special, and it’s a big critical and commercial hit.
At least as often, they made that huge investment, then they release it, and it just falls flat, or worse, it tanks. And all those years of money and hard work are gone. Wasted.
I really long back for the simpler times, where devs just went out to deliver a good/nice 15-20 SP game, and that was it. You release it, it’s good and popular, or perhaps it isn’t, but regardless, the devs then simply move on to whatever next project they feel excited about …
