>>718577645
I wonder if this how Bungie feels with Marathon, yeah you have a publisher that's legally going to get you across the finish line but it's very likely it's going to end in your death and all you can do is get those resumes ready and ride out those paychecks or jump ship early.

>LIS:DE gets early access period
>people stream the early access stuff
>let everyone know you unceremoniously broke up Max and Chloe
>everybody that gives a shit about the game openly and vocally cancels their preorder
>game bombs so badly Square-Enix sends out marketing surveys asking people why they didn't buy the game as if they didn't already know the answer
>have to make another game after you've already torched your fanbase and all your good will

This isn't even like Dontnod where they have a lot of different projects going on even if everything besides Bloom & Rage bombed, Deck Nine has fucking nothing besides being the Life is Strange studio. Shit at least Dontnod understood the assignment.