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This more or less confirms what I was speculating yesterday. They didn't have the resources ready to invest in the game because they didn't expect it to be this big or stay relevant this long; those resources went to work on other games (mostly Tokon) after the initial launch window / S1 per their normal development cadence. This isn't an excuse, just an explanation; they should have been able to recognize success and been willing to chase it. Now we're at point in development with Tokon and Strive where they have to make resource commitment decisions again, and it sounds like they're going to pour some actual effort into Strive. Based on Miyauchi's comments it sounds like it will be some technical upgrades (possibly engine / network systems / dev pipeline that they would have iterated on for Tokon), and likely some system / game tooling improvements for players like replay takeover etc etc. With a fresh resource commitment and an eye to their contemporaries we could even see balance patch cadence commitments so things like this dogshit season balance don't last nearly as long.