> I jumped on the Spyro Trilogy Box Set, thankfully... there's another badass
> series that went to shit once it moved out of the hands of the original
> developers.

I bet the mentality is: "Now that we have a hot product going, we can let the loser developers go at sequels and people will still buy our shit! Then we can move our inspired developers over to something else to create another hot new money delivering property to us!"