It's a story we've seen a lot this decade: An experienced videogame developer becomes fatigued by ballooning team sizes and meetings about monetization strategy, and so they walk away to start a smaller studio with funding from private investors and companies like NetEase.
In this case, it's Christofer Sundberg, co-founder of Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios (not to be confused with Hogwarts Legacy developer Avalanche Software). Sundberg sold the studio in 2018, and then quit in 2019 because "the company had become so numbers focused," he told me on a call this week.
