Development costs money. You don’t innovate by trying things that have been done before. I think the skins are a little pricey, sure - but as a professional software engineer living in the modern world where costs of everything have gone up, this doesn’t bother me.
Facepunch has 92 employees according to my search here.. let’s be conservative and figure they make a hundred k each. Thats almost a million dollars in payroll. Every year. Not to mention all the overhead on top of that.
Sorry you guys choose to be depressed about it, it’s a wasted emotion.
It’s 2026 and Claude code is a thing, go make your own games then I guess idk.