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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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