Playground Games' Fable survived over a decade of development despite widespread Xbox layoffs and studio closures because the franchise is considered vital to the platform's identity. The game's survival contrasts sharply with canceled projects like Everwild and shuttered studios, with director Ralph Fulton crediting Fable's importance to Xbox's DNA as protection during turbulent years of acquisition-driven upheaval.
Analysis of PostgreSQL development activity trends from mailing list archives (1998–present) and git history (1996–present) shows consistent growth in communication volume, with messages increasing from ~25 to ~100 per day, and message sizes growing significantly after 2009 and 2016, correlating with the introduction of commitfests and deployment of the commit fest app.