This has been a problem for decades. The EU and other various specific countries give huge grants and benefits to art projects that basically make them profitable to both make and fail. Uwe Boll's entire career was built on exploiting them, and its the reason why filming in Europe is so common for cheaper movies.
New game dev strategy: grift some of this money by promising to make pozz but instead make an actually good game with a bit of pozz window-dressing that you make it easy to mod out.
This has been a problem for decades. The EU and other various specific countries give huge grants and benefits to art projects that basically make them profitable to both make and fail. Uwe Boll's entire career was built on exploiting them, and its the reason why filming in Europe is so common for cheaper movies.
New game dev strategy: grift some of this money by promising to make pozz but instead make an actually good game with a bit of pozz window-dressing that you make it easy to mod out.
They probably demand to oversee/hire someone to oversee the project