The idea of the game was created some time before the game came out, but many workers in FromSoftware did not think the game would be popular. However, when Miyazaki began working for From, he picked up the project and made "Demon's Souls" into a game. Since From was a little-known video game developer and they thought the game would not sell well anyway, From had a lot of freedom of making the game they wanted to make, as they did not have to remove a lot of features to please video game publishers. Surprisingly, "Demon's Souls" sold many more copies and became much more popular than From thought. It would be popular enough to make three sequels and two spiritual successors, "Bloodborne" and .