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.