This question may perhaps be off-topic, but why is this considered a post-mortem? It appears that the game was a critical success and not a commercial flop. The attitude of the article, as I read it, was definitely mixed, but there really wasn't a set of lessons for next time, or things that could obviously have been done differently in hindsight.<p>Maybe we, along with the author, should consider this write up a case study of a successful game launch, and adopt a more triumphant attitude in how we read it.