Reckoning staff unpaid since May 1, health care runs out - Report

The second I don't get paid, I'll look for another job.

The worst part is this.... They will get away with it unless someone forces an inquiry.

So let me get this straight... KOA is out selling their predictions and yet they are still laying people off and withholding pay from current workers? And the 2 ringleaders bailed? Another disgusting example of the people on top running off with all the money while the people who actually work end up jobless and without even access to healthcare. 

My friend worked at 38. He said when they didn't get paid the management was really shady about it and didn't really give them any info until they laid everyone off. But he kind of knew it was possible once amalur didn't make the company a profit. 

This is what happens when people become greedy.

Zomg this is such a big thing Start a FUND GameSpot.

For the price of a cup of coffee you can help feed 38 Studios.

man these companies with successful games make SO much friggin money, whats wrong with these friggin businessman man, seriously. its a joke.

I think there needs to be a new legislation..managers and employers shouldnt get paid until the friggin workers do...its pathetic OR they shouldnt be producing a game they cant afford in the first place. Either or, theyve RIPPED off the people that have worked on the game and should go to prison for it.

This is really horrible. It's sad how what I assume is a mismanagement of money will hurt so many who did such a good job.

My cousin works for Big Huge Games and I feel horrible for him.  I am wishing him well and hope he can find work elsewhere...

Tragic management issue.

That's what happens if you think that, because you were good at baseball (and played a bit of WOW...), you're good at everything, namely creating a game!

But he will probably have made his cut with a nice yearly salary plus bonuses, while his 400-or-so ex-employees and the state of Rhode Island are bum-f'*ed.

If they didn't start work on their mmo this wouldn't be an ossue.

Hahaha. Developers of EA got so greedy, now they get screwed for screwing over paying consumers. Can we say Karma.

I will always love video games, but I'll never, EVER, ever, ever. ever, want to be a gaming dev, because of all these hideous stories that happens too these gaming devs. You get more respect working fast-food than working tough shifts working on a video game, that you don't know when, or where you'll get pay, which is just ridiculous!

It's starting to sound like Mr. Schilling was so ideologically blinded in his politics that he refused/neglected to let his company renegotiate their loan/finances with the State of RI, even though their MMO was taking longer than expected and the company was in danger.  I doubt the state wanted the company to fail and to lose 350 jobs and any chance that they would be paid back.  They could have worked something out.

Maybe everyone will be hired back on if they get any KoA money.  The MMO always sounded promising since I first heard about it 6 years ago.

Will Ea or Activision please buys these guys out, or even Ubisoft, they can't be that expensive..

Something is rotten in the State of Rhode Island.

money, commerce, etc once again destroy creativity ....

This is why EA is ranked the worst company. When a game outperforms expectations and you still can't profit from it, something is very wrong. How can you not receive any payment or money from the supposed 1.3 million units shipped?

Not even the dead can know peace in this place.

This just in: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/24/38-studios-and-big-huge-games-lay-off-entire-staffs/?a_dgi=aolshare_twitter

Big Huge Games and 38 Studios just laid off their ENTIRE staffs. Copernicus/KoA are done.

This is what happens when people beg for new IPs rather than sequels and then don't support new IPs when they come out... granted there are other factors at play here.  I don't think they should've gone big budget right out of the starting gate, and I don't think they should've made so many wasteful decisions like hiring Todd McFarlane and R. A. Salvatore.  That's something a company like Rockstar Games would be in a position to do, not a start-up.

yeah i totally would not be going a month without pay and their next project is an MMO? For realz who's smoking that crak pipe i have to know because it must be amazing stuff. Their next project should def have been a follow up to KOA. Much larger companies have tried and failed at MMO and they though they'd just take a shot at it eh? If their current situation dosen't break them then the flopping of that MMO will and its highly likely. If i still worked their i would be trying to find new employment asap. Also KOA isnt the problem here folks it actually sold decent and will probably have good lifetime sales. I just doubt it will help them much. The real problem is awful decision making coming from the top.

that blows

Curt Schilling was an avid EQ and WoW player so of course he was qualified to run a video game company.  Shocking that it didn't work out really.

The bigger question is why such a hard core tea-partier was ok with taking huge government handouts in RI.