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[-] Gsus4@feddit.nl 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A minute of silence for the DE designer, writer, artist and devs that were discarded after the game got popular. 😑

[-] Elegast@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

Yep...that entire situation is so crappy. The devs deserved better.

[-] yaminoEXE@ttrpg.network 12 points 1 year ago

I mean yeah, I feel bad but he was kinda hard to work with and other devs didn’t like him but what the company did was scummy.

[-] teft@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

What is DE designer and what did I miss about them being discarded?

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Classic gaming industry IP theft. Investors underhandedly forced the founders/developers out of their own company and stole the IP.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Guy comes into the company and uses illegal, fraudulent methods to take it over. He then demoted the co-owners (and founders) to mere "employees" so they could be fired. The plan was to then sell the company to a big publisher and walk away with all the money.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Ok... But I still not quite get how you take the company over with il·legal, fraudulent methods.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

There's a bunch of articles and videos that go over how it happened. It's not too different from what happened to Interplay back in the day. Here's one overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Xu4GvpN9U

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Bought the company/ip then didn’t keep original owners on

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for saying it. I was going to bring it up, but I wasn't clear on all the details.

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