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Brad Mcquaid looted 45k of the crowdfunding
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I also witnessed this being on the Pantheon FB page and can attest to its validity.
K-TAM Radio
Here's how to pay it back:
1. take out life insurance
2. find a bridge and jump
No sympathy for shysters like this. not only did he screw over the people that donated their money but he screwed over the people that did the work and put trust in him, and now he wants people to work for free while he rides the fundraiser gravy train to $180,000.00/yr "salary"? What a piece of sh**.
I don't know. Go back to every post about this game where people are getting excited and I've said over and over again that he's not cut out for it. Every project he "manages" falls apart. I'm generally ignored though.
You make me like charity
Salim Grant - Lead Developer for Pantheon before this ruckus was on K-TAM radio on the Aftermath Monday show and made this brief statement.
http://173.193.205.96:2197/ondemand/ktamradio/Salim on K-TAM's Aftermath Monday May 5th 2014.mp3
Should work if not the file can be listened to directly on our site.
Basically he says if anyone wants to know more about what went on they can contact him. He has documentation, all the e-mails between him and Brad as well.
K-TAM Radio
Lol, he had some people completely duped or they had been in on it, get a load of the OP on this post. And he's still defending him!
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/404087/page/1
The IRS might be interested, since it sounds like what he did was technically embezzlement.
You make me like charity
From the games website:
NOTE: ANY MONEY PLEDGED WILL NOT BEING GOING TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT AT THIS TIME; INSTEAD IT WILL GO TOWARDS KEEPING THE WEBSITE UP AND RUNNING AND TO OTHER MAINTENANCE COSTS. WE WILL ADVISE YOU WHEN AND IF THIS CHANGES.
Other maintenance costs... yeah I guess weed and blow could be considered maintenance costs.
In defense of weed, 45k isn't a weed problem.
He's going to claim the $45k was used to keep the website up. LOL.
Brad: "Dude, we can still make it happen. You and me, man. Let's do this. Ask the Trustee of your Trust fund to bank roll me $500k and you will be the man behind the next WoW and I will be the man behind the man."
Trust Fund Baby: "Yea, dude. This sounds good man. I want to bank roll the next WoW. Trust Fund ain't my money anyway, it's my daddy, so know cares?? LOL. I'll ask the Trustee to give me $500k. Well, you wouldn't know about using other people's money so it's probably not that funny of a joke"
Sad think (beside what he did) , is that all the donations which will come from now will go (quote): TOWARDS KEEPING THE WEBSITE UP AND RUNNING
Keeping a website up and running has zero/null "MAINTENANCE" costs. None!
Oh, if by MAINTENANCE costs he means that he needs to pay around 20-30$ per month for the shared-hosting (he does not need a dedicated server, and even if he needs it, he can get one for 50$) then this man can't get lower then this.
I mean, he can use his computer to host that website....
C'MON!!!
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
Just a cheap legal maneuver, he's going to get dragged into court and use that excuse to prop up a defense.
HOOOOOLY CRAP, he took $45 k of donators money to pay his bills????
Evidence is overwhelming, can the donators sue to get their money back?
WOW brAD MACQUID EMBEZZLE $45 from donators for the game to pay his personal bills and enrichment. Holy crap
thats thats insane.
The thread recapped in 3 mins
http://www.ktamradio.com/?attachment_id=1019
You just can't make stuff like this up.
McQuaid's rep has now gone from the toilet to the sewer.
And he did it to himself.....
(Any bets on how much of that 45K in "medical expenses" was for dope and pills?)
the guy from camelot unchained auctioned off 2 of his sports car collection to plop down a couple mil for his own project.
brad takes others' donations and loots them?
guess what? devs who truly believe in their projects, and their fans, exist. they just do not happen to be named Brad McQuaid.
RIP Ribbitribbitt you are missed, kid.
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Well to be fair medical is expensive in the US, and i can imagine that his insurance does not have the best coverage with his prior problems. So if he had money on the way in... or at least so he thought. It would not be out of reach to do what he did. It is still a douchebag thing to do but it is also common as dirt in smaller companies.
Now on the flip-side 148k is... well... nothing once you take in to account what it cost to run a studio. Those money would not have lasted him more then a few months. So without some serious outside funding the project was doomed any way. Even the devs knew it as they were talking about having a month or two more...
With that being said... I would not exactly call Brad the beacon of project management we all should follow, and i wonder why he seem to time upon time over estimate what can be done. That sort of attitude is ok if you are still in school or working with your own money. It is not a wise move to do when using others money.
This have been a good conversation
https://www.pantheonrotf.com/
how to kill a game and turn off fans ...
EQ2 fan sites
15k/month?? Holy shit I am in the wrong field!