most money was syphoned by management pet projects, including a recording label and a film iirc. however I'm still pissed at how they treated modding and their

most money was syphoned by management pet projects, including a recording label and a film iirc. however I'm still pissed at how they treated modding and their community, killing a lot of promising endeavours by declaring then redundant with the project roadmap, including resources and base building and goddamn multiplayer, sapping a lot of the momentum under the modders but ultimately undelivered on their commitments. mods picked up steam after it was clear some of these things were going nowhere, but the damage at that point was done.