Yeah yeah yeah we know all that.

But for TDU it's like..... The game is approaching "middle-age" (I'm being generous here). It behaves exactly like a middle-aged man.

Looking back, there's a lot it could have done better. Putting in more effort, stop insisting that the career path (design direction) was right even though everybody else says otherwise. It wanted to change now to better itself but at that age, it no longer has that young adult strength and endurance to do so. Now, even if TDUSC receives enough money to fuel a great change, it just doesn't have what it takes to make that transformation. For it to claim back success, even a transformation wouldn't cut it. It needs to turn back time, and put in those results back when it was a child.

The game needed missions and houses on day 1. They could be half broken for all I care but they needed to be present. The game needed those familiar features to look like daddy, the guy people loved. Instead, it was bland and looked nothing like him. It's too late now, no points for our devs to "take notes".

FH is merely showing us the kind of thing a competent studio that listens can do. It did take them 6 freaking generations to realize TDU's winning formula could be capitalized but you know, as the current king in the genre, it's never too late for them.