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The thing with the ks.. Devs on the team expressed concern before it launched.. Wanted to follow what the goblin works folks did with pathfinder. They got ignored.. Then Brad exeratated how far along they were. Once they started working on the game full time it was under the assumption of a 3 year cycle so a lot of the under the hood shit was being done... The devs only receive a pay or 2 before the work was slowed due to funding. There really wasn't a whole lot of dev time on the project despite how long most assume they were working on it. Even then.. Guys like stash were hardly used. Think he did the goblin and maybe 2 other pieces of art? Very little done overall and mostly bc of Brad lying and stealingMeh... Brad taking the lions share of the money always seemed justifiable to me.
The kick starter had zero decent content, so people certainly weren't pledging based on that. It stands to reason then, the monies raised were raised because of Brad's 'brand equity', for lack of a better term.
If I were in his shoes, when I saw the funding failing, I would have fired the whole team. I would have reimbursed any unity purchases and travel expenses to San Diego, paid for web development and Tony's intellectual property... Then I would have pocketed the rest and used it to hire new staff.
But I'm a bit of a cold hearted asshole when it comes to this stuff