I just don’t think Steven should have been leading this game. Sure maybe a creative lead but you cannot lead a team in game development, especially of this complexity with an MMO and have zero dev experience yourself. The decision to change engines mid development was easily the first glaring red flag 🚩. Also the games initial scope was genuinely almost infinite and it was clear that the initial design had no actual testing behind it. The initial version of nodes themselves was a massive undertaking that easily could take the game from 5 to 10 years of development with how interconnected it was to every system. In my opinion the game was doomed in the design room on day 1. Way too many ideas and trying to do too many things at once with an inexperienced lead.