Yes, playing safe it is.
We don't know what's with most of the newer projects because we'll never know if they're going to succeed.
Because many of them are just going for the short term profit and then they'll just leave the project left hanging with their investors.
Now when the team just let their project depend on investors while they walk away with short-term profits, then believe me that such a project will be very easily destroyed and will not be able to develop properly.