I don´t think they would deny it if someone said it. They are delusional and actually probably believe it is a fair and generous deal. I don´t doubt at all that guys like Xanword and Gassy are being promised pieces of the company when the games launch and were probably already offered a piece of the company for money.
Sorry, I am a bit skeptical of what you are saying though. The only thing worse than he said / she said is a friend of a friend of a friend said.. I also think Teddy made some pretty funny comments in his last posts ( about turning the server on), I think he easily could have mentioned that their ´offer´ was actually for him to buy in to FC.
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Exciting offer to work with 3 stoogies on a game that doesn´t exist, do all of the work and pay us $50,000 in the process. Serious applicants only.
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Yeah, it is sold in Barnes and Nobles along side of War and Peace.
Seriously, this company and all the crazy things around it could be a book. We are now up to 13 years, 2 kickstarters, a cash-shop, at least 1 round of seeking a millionaire investor. Two times they had a mass exodus of all the people actually working on the game. And of course, the 3 stoogies as CEOs.
If you want the actual facts of the GAME development. One guy worked for about 6 months, put up a small demo island where a dozen people could chop down trees. And that is really the biggest story about this ´game´ is that this story has been going on for 13 years and the only thing the three stoogies have done is talk on forums and tried to get money.