The one SBI (or some other consultant agency) sold them on 8 years ago. We are now seeing the results of the heavy DEI shakedown/grift from several years back.
They know this game (and other games like this) will fail, but they have reached sunken cost fallacy at this point, and would look bad if they cancelled them at this point.
Maybe when the Pubs are tired of losing Millions and the Devs are tired of causing their own layoffs they push back on this crap.
I think that’s exactly right. Like 8 years ago they all drank the DEI kool aid. “Modern audiences are diverse, people want to play characters just like them, think of all the potential audience out there, stop making so many straight white men” etc etc.
Then covid hit, games got delayed, games got delayed some more because everyone works from home. By now everyone is sick to fucking death of “modern audiences” shite, girl bosses, overt moralizing and politicization of everything.
And now all these long delayed games are finally releasing, flopping horribly, and putting devs/studios out of business.