Fearing he had agreed to a ‘pushover’ contract [...]
He spazzed out because he thought the game would sell well, the dev would earn their reward, and he would look like a chump for keeping his word. Honor societies need to be launched into the sun.
When Robert Downy Jr. got a ridiculously good-in-hindsight contract for Iron Man from Disney, did Disney get mocked and called a chump? Not really. They just say that RDJ had good intuition in his contract-making since it was a gamble.
Same would have applied here. It's not a pushover contract, and the CEO is a moron for thinking it was. it's the devs getting a solid agreement and thus producing a solid product. Without the good contract, it's perfectly likely they wouldn't have tried as hard, and thus, not wind up with as much sales.
CEO should have taken the "L" which wasn't an L, paid out the devs, and parlayed the good reputation from that into big pre-sales for another game which they put less money into and rug-pull that one on the customers. Like sane AA game studios do.
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He spazzed out because he thought the game would sell well, the dev would earn their reward, and he would look like a chump for keeping his word. Honor societies need to be launched into the sun.
When Robert Downy Jr. got a ridiculously good-in-hindsight contract for Iron Man from Disney, did Disney get mocked and called a chump? Not really. They just say that RDJ had good intuition in his contract-making since it was a gamble.
Same would have applied here. It's not a pushover contract, and the CEO is a moron for thinking it was. it's the devs getting a solid agreement and thus producing a solid product. Without the good contract, it's perfectly likely they wouldn't have tried as hard, and thus, not wind up with as much sales.
CEO should have taken the "L" which wasn't an L, paid out the devs, and parlayed the good reputation from that into big pre-sales for another game which they put less money into and rug-pull that one on the customers. Like sane AA game studios do.