Kirun
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Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO
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Flobee
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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They use a rev share model I believe so there would be expectations of future revenue, especially for a founder
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Pasteton
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any time someone capitalizes on a revenue stream on twitch by virtue of their position developing a game, it’s a red flag, and on top of that there are multiple instances of him making class changes based on purely some rando making a comment on his stream that he happened to notice (I think this happened recently with a paladin change if I recall correctly). This is on top of the fact that he was tone deaf regarding many character balance issues, including the way he prioritized his time on some classes while others (at least publicly) received little attention. . The dude clearly loved the game and was there from the start but he needed to be ousted or atleast have his role changed ( though not sure what role)
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GuardianX
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His shares likely switched from a Voting to non-voting so they are less "weighted" but he likely still retains the value or revenue-sharing that he did originally, now without a legal ground for creative input. Shawn / aLR mentioned this in a past stream that they have tiers of shares (Voting, non-voting, revenue sharing, and non sharing). Nick was a founding financial input, you don't just nuke that easily for many reasons some including legal and some including social perception.
Nick likely signed a NDA on the way out, you'd only sign a NDA if it was in your best interest to sign one. I say this because ALL of the "employees" of NWC signed a version of a NDA on ingest, so shawn / aLR knows they exist and employs their use. Signing a NDA on the way out the door without any kind of quid-pro-quo would be stupid to do but not unheard of BUT it also would make the NDA very weak since you have nothing to lose if you break it.
There likely isn't a "Non-disparagement clause" but there is likely a mutual understanding that defamation could result in financial loss for all parties (including nick since he still likely has a payout tier of "Stock"). Plus with Nick still likely financially tied to the company, it would be shooting yourself in the foot.
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Loser Nirgon
cuckservative censorship is real
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That's not a guy they shoulda lost. I have my principles.
Edit: and people stabbing him for how evenly he worked on developing classes so early into things wth, some of those things are done a class at a time - "your class" (WUT) might not have been the next or the next next
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