I'd like to think I'd be grateful for having helped put something into a famous game, and not get wrapped up in money. Honestly, I'd probably be bitter too. Th

I'd like to think I'd be grateful for having helped put something into a famous game, and not get wrapped up in money. Honestly, I'd probably be bitter too. The thing is, just because he (or myself) would be bitter, does not make the bitterness right. It doesn't make it sensible, and it absolutely does not make any part of this a good move. Burning bridges as publically as possible, over what is almost certainly going to be your most well known piece of work for the rest of your entire professional career, is not going to win you any friends. It will make people see you as a backstabber (which you are), a bitter, money-hungry person (which you are), and someone who is willing to try and hurt the public credibility of others, in order to enact some petty revenge (which you have done). No part of this is good. No part of this is right. "Giving the story" to the public in some nebulous gesture of posterity does not absolve any of what has been done. Instead, it taints the only thing you had invested into the project - the only claim you had. Again, I'd probably be upset over this too. I might even have attempted to do something similar. Knowing that, however, does not excuse the action. It does not change right and wrong. This is wrong. I wish this person luck, and more importantly, the opportunity to learn from this error-upon-error that they have stacked on their own shoulders, and branded to their name. To put it simply: It is not worth throwing away public perception and credibility in hopes of receiving financial gain, regardless of how validated or "wronged" you might feel in your own egocentrism.