I believe I read an article a few months back (no citation, sorry), where some games where planned to have fans make mods. Having a strategy where you target audience finishes your product,basically.
I'm happy playing older games, there are a ton of good ones and will keep me happy for a long time. By then the 'new' games will be old and will have been sorted/sifted through for the actual decent ones, and then I can get them free or on the cheep. Heck, I still have old CD cases full of PS2 games I haven't finished, a few I haven't played too. And I play this lovely game to no ends. I'm in no rush to go start something fancy.
Ashes of Creation looks nice, I'll watch a few Twich play through or YT character creation, but I don't need all that. Other new and incredibly hyped games like the one from Amazon (no, I'm not even going to bother looking up the name), is just giant companies jumping on the gamer-train. I'm sure it will be beautiful and cool, and will be designed to such the life ($$) right out of you. Companies like Blizzard, Bio-ware, Amazon, etc, are bottom line companies. I'll try to avoid them whenever I can. Something like Ashes seems legit for gamers, by gamers, and that alone may get me to check it out (contradicting what I said above).
Really, from my POV, the modern world (insert rose-colored glasses here) is not a great place for long-term creative and interesting game companies. There will always be gems that are to be found, like our beloved RoR, but they are harder and harder to find.