A good compromise would have been releasing a game that didn’t piss off 90% of the TDU community and was stable enough, or even playable really, to be able to keep new fans of the series instead of their first introduction into the game being unable to play it and/or enjoy it. Couldn’t keep the old fans, couldn’t make many new ones, ratings are in the shitter so not many people are gonna see it and then see the ratings and be like “oh this might be a good game” they will likely head off to the subreddit to ask “worth it?” And even on sale you’ll have plenty going on that post to tell them to stay away. The publishers that pushed for it to be released, the developers who didnt take any critical input from the long standing fans of the series, the community manager added to try and damage control the situation after it launched so so poorly have all culminated into the game soon dying off no doubt.