Parallax Abstraction wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 19:58:
Cutter wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 19:53:
Hah! Called it! I knew it was going to be less than 5 mil. I reckoned somewhere around the 2-3 million mark. So Herve and his bro get a mil each and can now fuckoff die and never darken gaming's doorway again.
That's probably exactly what will happen. None of that money will go into paying off the numerous creditors that Interplay has or actually attempting to develop anything, the Caen crooks will take it out as "bonuses" or "reimbursement" and like they've been doing for years, they'll keep drawing a salary out of Interplay until it runs out of cash, put it in Chapter 7, take a cut of the remaining assets and go retire back in France somewhere. Meanwhile, I'm still on the hook for a small business loan until 2014 because we did everything honestly, couldn't make it work and the bank made us personally guarantee it. I'm happy to live up to my obligations because I'm honest but it's hard not to be bitter when you see scumbags like this beating a dead horse and getting richer off it.
That's nothing. Think of Bush Jr.. He put more than one company under and came away smelling like roses. Then a bunch of dumbshits elected him president.
This feels exactly like a payout to these jerks. Bethesda probably just asked them one day: "OK, how much can we give you two assholes to stop lying about this game and just go away? A mil each? Done. Now fuck off."