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There's a lot of rumors of shady practices at that developer - shitty hours, below minimum-wage pay, poor management, intern exploitation, threats of litigation against ex-employees, profits being poured into pet projects of the founders...

Generally, but not always, these kinds of stories aren't told about well-ran shops. But hey, it's video games, so who knows?

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OTOH, all the developers say they're sad about leaving, and really seem it. And I've never heard anything of the sort.

Mind, they're an advertising company by business: this is their first foray into games.

It's perfectly possible to have suffered shitty hours/below minimum-wage pay/poor management/etc. and at the same time be sad to leave. (The sadness then being leaving a project you're proud of and the community that loves it.)

Indeed; it's the kind of project I'd be personally willing to work on for free as long as savings lasted. Whatever the crap is going on at Squad, there's no denial that this is one of the best video games ever, especially if measured by amount of kids who actually learned advanced physics in order to play it better.

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