According to people I trust and who were/are in a position to know, Yahtzee's contract with the Escapist is a work of art, that the Escapist never in a million years should have agreed to. In the post-Ad-pocalypse world, he would be a fool to walk away from the guaranteed pay and legal coverage. AFAIK, during the last restructuring, Yahtzee was literally the only person involved with the venture that was being paid at one point for several months.