Former South of Midnight director David Sears tells MinnMax he would not have funded the game if he ran Xbox, because he expected the money to stop at some point.
The worry: Sears says "There's always a night when Rome burns" and was "always worried" about when that night would come.
The context: Sears recalls Xbox leadership telling studios like Compulsion that the goal was a portfolio of non-mainstream titles. He doesn't name Game Pass as a motive, though the timing matches Xbox's push to build its service library.
The studio: Sears left Compulsion in 2025 and praises Microsoft for letting it go independent rather than shutting it down.
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Former South of Midnight director David Sears tells MinnMax he would not have funded the game if he ran Xbox, because he expected the money to stop at some point.