Let's not forget about Electronic Arts. EA Sports FC 25 underperformed to a significant degree, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard fell massively short of expectations. Remember how the next Dragon Age was to be a live-service title, but subsequently rebooted, the remains patched together into a single-player game? Whatever you may think about the results, fans were far from impressed. And with many team members either leaving the company or reassigned, first temporarily and now permanently to other EA projects, the BioWare of the past is looking even less like itself than ever before. Mismanagement has often been reported as a major reason for development troubles and gross overspending on video game budgets. But surely those developers could go on and start their own studios, away from corporate meddling, right? Not necessarily.