There's no excuse to maintain a team this small when you've sold over 10 million units.

When you don't wanna share profits, it makes sense. Grounded is everything Irongate can't be - highly experienced Dev team, internal support from a larger Dev team (even tho the Grounded team is only 17 people) and a genuine work ethic.

If Iron Gate wanted to get to Groundeds level (regular, meaningful content updates and a 2 year EA cycle) they'd have to spend real money to hire people. Real money they've already paid their current members and likely don't have budgeting for much more. Is that an excuse? No.

Irongate was greedy, clearly, and even if they still have passion for the game and intend to finish it, we players know they chose money over building a game in a meaningful time frame.