But the game was his pet project so it was his personal money to get it off the ground. You are naive if you think any crowd funded projects are any different. Also every dollar you ever spent on any game ever has gone to someones personal expenses because that's what wages are. Did that girl leave you btw? You seem angrier and more retarded than ever. You little sad cunt.
Big fucking point #1: getting outside funding for a project is COMPLETELY different than using your own money
Big fucking point #2: if it's not your money, you have a fiduciary responsibility to use that money to fulfill your promises (to which you're contractually liable for, cuz like written words = enforceable contract)
Here's an example:
Let's say I come up with a project. And since it's my idea we'll call it a
personal project.
Then, let's say, I go out and raise $75,000 from investors to make this
personal project come to life.
I sign a contract and cash the check, making me the de facto CEO and now have a fiduciary responsibility to use that money to make the idea come to life. This is where it stops being a
personal project, because now I'm legally obligated to perform per the contract. That's what happens when you get investors.
Contrary to your personal beliefs, crowd-sourced money is actual money.
If I tell investors the game is going to cost $75,000 to make, but pay myself $40,000, this leaves $35,000 to make the actual game. Ya know,
critical shit like paying designers and developers.
If a CEO uses 50% of a project's resources to pay himself and then doesn't come through on his promises (to his investors, not to gamers), he's teetering on the edge of criminality. Depending on what the contract says, they could sue him and win.
