ate the sausage roll

When something (including but not limited to media, like a video game, or a movie) suddenly drops in quality out of nowhere, with the term usually used to joke that the creator(s) ran out of budget to maintain the quality of said thing.

Person A: "Hey, where the hell did the voice acting go? None of the dialogue has any voice acting anymore!"
Person B: "They must've ate the sausage roll."