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>>718734840
I didn't say Obsidian was well run, I said having reasonable expectations is much better than requiring everything to be a massive hit.

>this is our idea for a game
>this game might only sell 500k copies
>ok, we'll set the budget for it selling 500k

vs

>this is our idea for a game
>here's $170M
>we better hope it sells a fuckton

You can still make a shitty game and/or lose money with either method but one is reasonable and the other is insane.