Or they can go the No Man’s Sky model, with slightly lower quality updates in a 4-months dev cycles, where one sprint could be a major update. Bug testing and marketing could be outsourced to the fanbase as an unwritten contract.

But since it is the developer’s only significant income, they have to keep the game going. Now, the game is quite bloated, so it becomes your problem to ignore it.

That’s why I don’t play live service games; the product is never finished.