I feel like you’re missing the point that sometimes people make stuff for reasons besides maximizing the amount of money they make
Downplaying the time and effort put into creating a product isn’t usually how you hype it up.
Aabbcc@lemm.ee 8 months ago
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 months ago
If you put something out there, you want to maximize something. Probably attention in this case.
Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Or…or! They were practicing on an engine they were unfamiliar with by making a low-stakes proof of concept.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
That’s because it’s not a product. It’s an experiment for figuring out what they as a studio might be able to do with something new and untested. This is a trial run of a new engine, and they simply decided to publish the result for others to see.