Just have to chime in here because I've been lurking for a while and I'm compelled by a devilish pact to talk about POE 1 & 2, likely my best games ever.
The tone, the settings, the writing, the gameplay, itemization, the music... it was everything I hoped for. Yes, the story and characters could have been improved (especially in Deadfire) but by far, it was a solid experience in both (I have over 1500 hours in both games).
So why wasn't it commercially successful? And yeah, they made the budget back but that doesn't qualify as commercially successful.
That could be a 20 page branching conversation all by itself, but my money is on bad marketing.
