this reminds me that i follow a lot lf people who basically dont think fs has made anything good since des/ds1 bc theyve gone corpo or w/e, and while its disingenuous to say that they havent been influenced by their momentuous popularity/player response, it also just feels very obvious that fs is
i know thats right
i was playing arr once and asked my grandpa how we could make another expansion like it and ill never forget his answer:
'we cant. we dont know how to do it, weve lost the technology'
when people say xyz thing shouldve been like arr im like, you mean the longest expansion that a solid half of the playerbase hates and brags about not paying attention to and another third of thqt crowd will tell you to skip
to be clear. im a certified arr lover and its in my top 3 expansions for this game but we will never get anything even close to it again. they literally cannot afford to, in a cariety of respects. in fact id even guess dts pitfalls come from tje limitations of NOT being able to make another arr
just... a studio that is making shit they want to make while playing hands theyre dealt by ceos and corpos, like, 'oh they keep making the same thing' they clearly enjoy making this formula, and theyve also released a number of other things in the meantime. u can not like what the chef makes but you