>> the team was so huge and unwieldy that he (Ken) wanted to go back to basics and build a game with a skeleton crew like in the old days That happens not only

>> the team was so huge and unwieldy that he (Ken) wanted to go back to basics and build a game with a skeleton crew like in the old days That happens not only in the gaming industry. An approach that works on the small scale may not work on the large scale. If you are small you are forced to take care about your product, customers and employees (maybe not in this order). If you are at a big corp you have to deal with people who only care about company politics and the ego-game, even if you do not care about these things.