

I’d hate to come across as a Molyneux apologist, but at least Fable 1 was fun. SC can’t claim anything close to that.
This probably isn’t due to any good intentions from Peter himself though, he was tied to a studio that demanded a complete game be released, SC is just on a money treadmill and their “visionary” is free to just grift away.
If you’re going to big/medium-sized acts from musicians that have definitively “made it” then I think this makes sense. I’ve been to plenty of shows where an encore was neither expected nor desired, and others where an encore came at (what looked like) genuine surprise to the band.
So yeah, when you’re selling out all your shows and the last 10 all demanded an encore, then just start baking it into your set, but there has to be some marker of when you’ve reached this point.