I knew it all along! · 5:47am Apr 29th, 2022
I just read Yuji Naka's explanation on Twitter regarding Balan Wonderworld and holy shit! Square Enix indeed sabotaged the game and fired Naka half a year before its completion. The part where he said that Square and Arzest don't care about game fans is absolutely spot-on. I feel sorry for him and I hope he finds healing from all this. He deserves better.
The same is true of most of the gaming industry. Some studios do care, but a lot don't. One I have to deal with regularly, Dovetail Games, frequently releases content with bugs or features that clearly have not been playtested, often leaving it to the community to fix the issues within.
This is why I only buy games on a severe discount these days.