Last year, the head of VK Play, Alexander Mikheev, speaking about the action RPG "Smuta," stated that he considers it "a celebration of Russian game development."
Recently, he was asked: "a year later, do you agree that this phrase was correct"?.
He did not renounce his words and explained his vision:
"Projects of this scale must happen. They will be successful, they will be unsuccessful — this is game development. And the amount of money allocated to a particular game is not equal to success — this has already been proven by hundreds of closed projects.
But the very fact that the developers were ready to fit into such tight deadlines....and for me [the celebration is also] in the fact that after that, the teams that we were waiting for began to come to the competitions to make good, high-quality games."