Pantheon

[thefloydian]

Originally Posted by myriverse [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Turn the lights on" isn't a literal thing, but yes, a team of 11 would go through $150k in no-time, even if they were grossly underpaid.

Yeah, no the wouldn't.

[thefloydian]

To repeat: They got that money like a month ago. Brad admitted they don't even really know how much money came in. The other devs were blindsided by the news and most of them are saying they weren't getting paid shit to work from home. So unless Brad is paying himself like 50k a month for doing nothing they horribly mismanaged the money.

Not to mention, this story about them wanting to only develop a prototype to shop to "angel investors" from the beginning is horse shit. If Brad really though this is how things were going to play out from the beginning it was completely irresponsible to take people's money in the first place.

[thefloydian]

Did some more reading, and it appears Brad decided to "backpay" everyone on the team for however many months of work (if you can call it that) they put in before the kickstarter. If that's the case it was basically just stealing money when they opened up that new site. They basically said "Well, we did all this "work" on something that doesn't actually exist and feel like we should be compensated. So just give us some money, OK?" If you were going to backpay people there was no way 150k was ever going to do anything other than empty dumb people's bank accounts.

[Karkona]

Originally Posted by applesauce25r624 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

in other news: Lord British still kicking a shit ton of ass with his development

Brad McQuaid the hustler,
Peter Molyneux the snake oil salesman,
Lord British doing God's work.

[Fame]

Originally Posted by thefloydian [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

what happened to the money at this point.

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[Quineloe]

Originally Posted by Portasaurus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i beat you to this like 2 pages ago! :P

Except you were wrong about it being 8th place

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Parallels

[myriverse]

Originally Posted by thefloydian [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

To repeat: They got that money like a month ago. Brad admitted they don't even really know how much money came in. The other devs were blindsided by the news and most of them are saying they weren't getting paid shit to work from home. So unless Brad is paying himself like 50k a month for doing nothing they horribly mismanaged the money.

Not to mention, this story about them wanting to only develop a prototype to shop to "angel investors" from the beginning is horse shit. If Brad really though this is how things were going to play out from the beginning it was completely irresponsible to take people's money in the first place.

It's not like the project just started a month ago. It's been rolling for a while and incurring debt along the way. By the time the Kickstarter even started they were behind. Heck, the Kickstarter ended about 2 months ago.

Does it say anywhere that the project is ending? Nope. Just slowing, and they will definitely NEED to slow if they want to stretch what's left of that $150k, which is really about 1% of what they really need for a serious project.

[Danth]

Originally Posted by thefloydian [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, it's a joke that this got moved to RnF. The devs are just mad this guy made them look silly.

In fairness it's much more likely the powers that be here simply wish to remain on positive terms with the Pantheon folks, come what may. There's nothing to be gained in burning bridges.

Danth

[Portasaurus]

Originally Posted by Quineloe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Except you were wrong about it being 8th place

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Parallels

Ack! I have failed nerds everywhere.

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[Nirgon]

Lot of people here hate classic features like no map anyways