Once you have a game that is playable enough for you to really realise that "This isn't much fun to play" you're often too far along to start making major chang

Once you have a game that is playable enough for you to really realise that "This isn't much fun to play" you're often too far along to start making major changes. Same with 'bad' movies. The people releasing the bad movies aren't oblivious to the fact that the movies turned out bad and not what they hoped it would be, but they're out of time, out of money and contractually obligated to get the thing out the door.