Steve Ahlman

And there's kind of like less opportunities to get something, I guess, wrong when it comes to the lore and adaptations.

Like, you know what?

I'm going to take that back.

Anything could happen.

Anything could happen.

But I'm kind of excited, but also very, very, very pessimistic.

Only when he does an Expedition 33 adaptation will I say that.

And that's really the ultimate test for Mason.

Like if he can build a world and if he can make something that feels ultimately familiar to the people that love this game, then he succeeds.

And he mostly succeeds in every adaptation of that.

You know, as much as I would have loved the Chernobyl IP.

You know, I'd much rather take a guy who is too lost in the sauce than a guy who is going to adapt like the most popular game of the last decade.

10, 15 years and be like, I don't know what it is.

Let's just try it.

were kind of great.

Like we had Joey Pants in season two and his entire story arc was actually quite moving and compelling.

And there were other iterations of that story that he invented that people really, really liked.

And I can give him that credit as well.

That like, if he can make something else in this world that is of his own creation that can also add to it, I support that as well.

I'm very curious to consider the business aspects of the fallout of what Concord brought us.