Yesterday we reported on allegations that BadLand Publishing (a label the company started using after declaring “BadLand Games” went bankrupt and defunct) stole $78,000 from Limited Run Games and another $200,000 from Axiom Verge developer Tom Happ and producer Dan Adelman. Even worse, most of that money was intended to go into a fund for Happ’s son, Alastair, who requires expensive medical treatment for his Kernicterus.

The estimated $200,000 owed to Happ, Adelman, and Alistair came from the sales of the game in Europe. Meanwhile, Limited Run Games paid $78,000 for permission to distribute the Wii U version in North America, and BadLand was contractually obliged to supply them with 6,000 copies to sell. They never supplied the copies, and they never paid up. Limited Run Games took them to court, and they refused to show up. The judge ruled in Limited Run’s favor. BadLand

still hasn’t paid up.

Today, BadLand CEO Luis Quintans made a series of Twitter posts giving his “side of the story.” He kicks things off by announcing that he never technically refused to make payment. The

Multiverse Edition of the game (which BadLand published) went on sale in November of 2017, one year and five months ago, and Happ and Adelman alleged that they have received zero payment in all of that time.

As in his previous statement, Quintans shifts the blame to Limited Run and Happ/Adelman, claiming they didn’t work with him to establish a reasonable payment plan. BadLand agrees they could have been more “proactive” (they allegedly refused to answer any calls for six months) but still hold that it’s not their fault they haven’t paid anything in almost a year and a half. Quintans (after shifting the blame) apologizes for “the damage” and says BadLand is still willing to pay. Oh, how generous.

Quintans then states that this entire affair won’t change “my way of proceeding or my values.” If your way of proceeding and values include not paying someone for a year and a half when you know that money is intended for their sick child, then maybe you

should change some things up. I sincerely doubt this, since Quintans follows this up by warning the world that he has retained lawyers (I wonder how much those cost?) to take legal action against anyone who “might make public inaccurate or false information harmful to the interest of the company in which I now work, Badland Publishing.”

In short, yes, BadLand (and Luis Quintans) stole $78,000 from Limited Run Games and has failed to pay out an estimated $200,000 to Tom Happ and Dan Adelman. They did this nearly a year and a half ago and haven’t done anything to make it right. But in the meantime, they’ve still been publishing other games and making money. They acknowledge their actions aren’t “ideal,” but put most of the blame on the people they stole from. Oh, and just so you know, their lawyers are ready to sue. What an absolute scumbag.

Source: Luis Quintans