It’s not the easiest task, quantifiably speaking, to gauge exactly how successful a game has been when it’s released from day one on Xbox Game Pass in addition to a regular release but all signs point towards a “so far, very good” reception for Avowed, the highly-anticipated fantasy RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Microsoft Studios. […]
It’s a AAA studio and it’s part of the MS roster.
Clearly Avellone did something right, other than the great pentiment (which started as a rogue project), they have yet to release anything of note since he left.
Pillars II, he did minor work on Pillars I and was not the only person working on their other hits.