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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 3932222" data-attributes="member: 63">I wrote a web enhancement for Mongoose back in 2001. They sent me a check for $15. It was a foreign check, so my bank charged me $20 to deposit it.Not quite the same, but it's the story I think of whenever I get bitchy about all the money I'm -not- making in the game industry. I had a pretty clear sign right from the start, but I went ahead anyway. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />It's bad form to complain about your employer in public. It's also bad form not to pay your employees. Sometimes a company has no choice, because they have no money. Which is not surprising lately, considering what the 4e announcement has done to sales. I've had to wait to get paid for some recent projects in order to make sure we've paid our contributors. I'm not a lawyer so I have no idea what officially should happen, but I was raised to believe that if you agree to pay someone, you pay them, even if it means you have to take a hit to the pocketbook. This is why people should only run game companies if they have the money to lose. It's a lot harder to get pissed at your employer when he has to decide between paying you for "The Complete Book of Tacos" or feeding his five kids.If you're willing to wait in case their financial position improves, then just wait, but keep in touch with them. I don't recommend going public and naming names, though I can see why it could be a good idea. You warn other freelancers that these folks are unreliable, and you get the cathartic satisfaction of being a d*** to someone you don't like. However, if you do decide to do it, don't expect to get paid.</blockquote>

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