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https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/broken-trust-in-cig

Still a record sales year though, like each previous year was. joker-gaming

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If I was Chris Roberts I would be bleeding the company dry at possible turn

Run all the employee salaries through your payroll processing firm, lend yourself money to buy the building to rent back to CIG, lease the IP (I think he did actually sell it), etc.

Not only is it a scam at this point, but it's a deeply inefficient one - you don't need to hire 500 staff to produce what looks like a couple million in content to keep the grift going

I think it's rumoured him and his relatives take about 10 percent of revenue, which is actually pretty small for a conman from Hollywood

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I mean he is just all around incompetent.

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

If it's only 10 percent, that's still far more money than most people could really spend in ways that actually matter for quality of life. It may not attain the leaderboards of billionaire vampires, but only billionaire vampires and their ghoul followers care about that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

billionaire vampires