• tree@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    It's wild that they had 2 million+ dollars, like maybe these people were treating it like a job, which is the only way I can rationalize them needing even close to that amount of money, but goes to show even though they were open source devs, they were trusting patreon and discord not to just hand over their personal information, and I'm guessing that's exactly what ended up happening.

    The Ryujinx devs also have a patreon that's making a fair amount of money per month, so I wouldn't be surprised if they get got as well. I'm not a big crypto person, but isn't this the exact use case for it? Why in the world would you use Patreon when you're doing something tangential to piracy that will put you in a gigantic company's crosshairs.

    • CoolYori [she/her]
      hexbear
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      4 months ago

      It's wild that they had 2 million+ dollars

      What is funny about settlements is that everything about them is structured even the announcements down to the payment schedule. The 2M could be a lie and we would never know that. Sometimes they use these figures to scare other projects and give it that chilling effect. Odds are since everything is going easy the people running Yuzu wont have to pay anything bedsides what was on the books which was probably not even close to 2M.

      • tree@lemmy.zip
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        4 months ago

        You're probably right, I definitely could have misunderstood, but making 5 figures a month on patreon adds up, still quite a lot of money for what it was.