Olsens.M
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He defo make a lot of money with people subscribing per month or randomly every month, and his game is great. But the wait to get an update once or twice per year is awful. That means we gonna spend 10 years to get this game done and every update will only give us 1hour of enjoyable gameplay.The reluctance to expand a development team, even when the game's income allows it, is common to many indie projects.
Besides the reasons you mention, there is also the fact that creators are not managers, neither in their vocation nor in their abilities: they don't want to or can't devote time to supervising a team and ensure that their own inspiration is respected.
Many successful creators also express doubts about the capacity to reproduce a hit, which is why they tend to keep it going. It is their only source of income in a competitive niche market. How many of them are planning for a new project but years later still hadn't completed the previous one?
This aversion to risk-taking is typical of an industry that is still largely amateur and much more precarious than it seems. The amount of abandoned projects is proof of this.