They could literally save the franchise if they just opened up the loot pool and stopped trying to micromanage and limit things for maximum profit. Meanwhile, the player base leaves in droves because of these exaxt same features. They can't help but think they are being SO CLEVER, all the while shooting themselves in the foot till they have no toes left to blow off. Toes being "players and employees". Their narrow minded approach to the numbers game is retractive, so instead of focusing on high player numbers fueled by incentives to bring in money, they LOSE money because they lose the players and compensate by double down on what's left by repeating the same mistakes. It's the greedy leadership that keeps doing this, not the devs actually doing the day to day work for their short sighted, cronie bosses. Pete Parsons is basically the poster child for scumbags and this new "leader" under Sony better be his polar opposite or this studio is cooked.