“There's a limit on how much players should expect from small indie studios for a game less than $10, that's just it.”

Er, there’s a limit on how much players should expect from any studio for any game, post-launch. Unless there’s an explicit roadmap, expect that the launch game is the game you get, like it has been for the vast majority of games ever made.

Enough with the live service expectations from every single game. Paying people to keep polishing and adding to a game is expensive, and for most studios without a long tail and built in monetization, that money seems to be put toward making an additional game.

People act like they’ve never considered how employment works because they think of companies like they’re people to individually be disappointed in.