A story in three parts:
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Studio given free reign over team building and dev time ends up wasting so much time and money that they get the entire project cut.
Helldivers 2 had hundreds of millions in funding, Sony backing and a dev team the size of Skyrim's, as well as 8 years. And they produced a cancerous MTX riddled always online abomination that comes with malware in their korean anticheat that literally only protects their mtx system.
They're as "indie" as bungie. EDF is actually made by a smaller budget studio producing consistently better games.