Just Cause dev co-founder says the studio got too big and 'numbers focused,' so he quit and made a $25 open world crime brawler

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...