While I agree on the sentiment, what would have happened if it had gone out on Jan 2017 or 2018? Development cost at least doubles, the graphics would start to

While I agree on the sentiment, what would have happened if it had gone out on Jan 2017 or 2018? Development cost at least doubles, the graphics would start to look dated relative to other titles. Competition with other open world action rpgs increases. The people responsible for making it the game that it is would have moved on, and other ideas would have come into the dev cycle.