>>718395991
>Wasn't this Dustborn game mostly taxpayer funded too.

yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoWT7J_rmcg&themeRefresh=1

maybe the devs knew some politicians responsable for funding this kind of "cultural" thing and hired some of their relatives that in turn helped back to fund these politicians' campaigns with some of the money they made working on the game

it's a thing that happens in my country a lot (not Norway)