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I also followed one company for a over a decade. Never met them, but did talk with them online multiple times as peers. The Project Zomboid devs. They basically were one of the first games to ever get crowdfunded, before kickstarter was even a thing. They made millions, and basically just took the money and ran. They worked like 7 hours a week on their game and eventually needed to make real updates. So they used some of their millions to pay a modder minimum wage to implement his mod into the full game. They "pulled a Unity" and basically bought out the Asset Store developer.

I once confronted Lemmy on a different account about his promise to release a major feature (and release the actual game ffs) that he promised a decade ago, long before the feature creep and mod shit. He had a mental breakdown where he accused me of being some specific named troll who has been gangstalking him for 4 years. It was like a massive 40,000 word wall of text that made no sense at all. Then I insisted multiple times in reply I wasn't that guy and had no idea what he was talking about. He calmed down a bit, and kept replying why he thought i was him and why every critic and fan that complains of a feature 4+ years late is actually just one guy who is gangstalking him.

Oh shit I saved part of the convo. This wasn't his first wall of text. This was like his 2nd or 3rd reply to me where he apologized.

A few months later, I visited the PZ steam discussion and the top thread was some critic. I went in, and there was Lemmy writing the guy a huge wall of text blasting him for accusing him of taking the money and never doing any actual work.

The irony? It was like 9am, the start of the day, and at the end of it, Lemmy said in his post something like
>Thanks to having to post this reply, now I can't do any work on the game for the rest of the day. I got coffee, woke up, saw this, had to write this, and now it's 9:23am and I just can't."
Great work ethic.