Quote Originally Posted by kupomogli View Post
11 million for using code he created but isn't credited for is a bit excessive considering he wouldn't have made that much even if he had been working there. This will just open up many more lawsuits for other people who worked on a game but didn't get credited, and yeah, it's got to suck that you're not credited on something you worked on, but do you deserve monetary reimbursement because your name isn't on there?
It's not about credit. Where on Earth did you come up with that from? He apparently had a royalty provision in his contract with EA that provided payments for any subsequent games that used his code/game engine. EA purportedly told him that they had built the 16 bit versions of Madden from scratch, so they stopped paying him royalties on later games. Supposedly this guy only figured out that they continued to use his code/game engine a few years ago when he went to an EA party and Trip Hawkins made a speech about how the 16 bit versions of Madden were created in six months when the original version this guy created took four years. If his contract did provide for royalties and if they did use his code in later games without making payments, $11 million seems pretty low on a franchise that has generated billions.