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I'm... not sure you understand how the sunk cost fallacy works...

If anything, what they did was the rational decision.

If it's gonna cost X to finish the game and they expect to make more than X from selling the game, then they should finish it. The amount spent to date is irrelevant.

The current history of video game sales expectations has been "expected too much", "expected too much", and "expected too much".

I'm willing to bet that they did not expect to make more than X by selling the game.

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