I've played games from much smaller, incredibly talented dev teams who can do a whole lot more than this with a whole lot less.
When we hand them 40 dollars of our money, their end of the bargain is to give us 40 dollars of value in the form of the game that we agreed to buy. Instead what they give us is 40 dollars worth of excuses why it's so hard for them to do their jobs, when other game makers run circles around them blindfolded with one hand tied behind their backs.
When they start shoveling, we need to close our mouths and stop swallowing. Other teams can fix what needs to be done and get it done, no matter what engine they're working on, no matter what the budget, no matter how much their sweet little angel children need to eat. So much of what we're handed is bad and unnecessary design choices that should never have happened on whiteboard day one of whatever new pack.
They took our money, we still have no game, we need our money's worth that other devs can deliver but these somehow can't. The rest is all noise. I don't want noise for my money, I want a game.
