Evil Genius Video games, writer of the On a regular basis Heroes tabletop roleplaying recreation, and topic of two articles in 2024 right here on EN World, is making an attempt to take away references to documented historical past which delves into the corporate’s actions by citing courtroom paperwork and interviews with former staff.
In early 2024 a number of staff of Evil Genius Recreation resigned, citing moral issues with the corporate’s actions. I investigated the allegations, obtained courtroom paperwork and inner correspondence, and interviewed a lot of ex-employees, in addition to CEO Dave Scott himself, culminating in a prolonged article which supplied a deep dive into the difficulty. That article was adopted by one other in June 2024 overlaying EGG’s participation in a pitch competitors at an occasion at Consensus 2024, a conference in Texas run by Coindesk, and its description of the Web3 applied sciences it proposed utilizing.
How does an organization go from over twenty core employees to simply six within the house of some weeks? In the summertime of 2023, Evil Genius Video games gave the impression to be driving excessive. They’d made about half one million {dollars} over two Kickstarter campaigns and had raised $1M from a number of wealthy buyers within the type of…
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Reddit person calculusbear posted a hyperlink in 2024 to my article about EGG’s enterprise practices. On January 14th of this yr (2025), EGG’s CEO Dave Scott messaged calculusbear asking them to take down the hyperlink claiming that it (the Reddit hyperlink, not the article or, certainly, EGG’s personal actions) was “destroying my firm”. Calculusbear has, so far, not taken down that hyperlink.
Final yr, I had shared an Enworld article relating to the actions of Evil Genius Video games, makers of On a regular basis Heroes on this sub.
Every week in the past, I acquired a message on reddit from their CEO, Dave Scott, asking me to take away the submit. He claimed it was hurting his firm. That is fairly the fascinating state of affairs I discover myself in; a reddit submit inflicting hurt to an organization. However it’s not like there was any clarifying information since.
Both approach, I might ask Mr Scott to share the dialogue he needs to have first, earlier than asking me to take away the submit.
This is not the primary time that EGG has tried to quell criticism. In 2024 the CEO threatened ex-employees with authorized motion ought to they converse overtly about their experiences–at the time I used to be proven letters to a number of employees from EGG’s authorized representatives threatening motion in response to their post-resignation statements; and once I spoke to them whereas researching my article final yr, all of them expressed issues about retribution.
Within the pursuits of steadiness, I will observe that Scott claims in his message that my article (which backs up each assertion with courtroom paperwork, inner firm paperwork, e-mail transcripts, and interview statements) “sighted many inaccurate details” [sic].
Hello Calculus Bear. My identify is Dave Scott and I’m the CEO of Evil Genius Video games. A few yr in the past there was a submit that highlighted an article by ENWorld that predicted the autumn of my firm. The article is one sided. It sighted many inaccurate details that actually harm me personally and my firm. Since then, the thread has been archived, however for some cause it nonetheless exhibits up on the entrance web page of Google Search. A yr later, this text is destroying my firm. Is there any probability you’d think about eradicating the archived thread? I am joyful to have a deeper dialogue about what’s going on with the thread and my firm. Thanks.
Whether or not the Reddit hyperlink is ‘destroying the corporate’ is tough to say. Simply three months in the past, in November 2024, the enterprise capital agency Alumni Ventures, a part of a syndicate which incorporates Blockchain Founders Fund and Hustle Fund, amongst others, talked about their proud funding in EGG. EGG’s most up-to-date crowdfunder, The Armory, raised $47.5K (their authentic On a regular basis Heroes Kickstarter raised practically $400K, whereas the followup Legendary Bundle raised $115K).
This week EGG launched its digital platform, ‘Sidekick‘. The promoting for the platform comprises no references to applied sciences equivalent to NFTs and blockchains, for which the corporate has beforehand been criticised. It isn’t clear whether or not EGG has reversed its place on the ethics of Web3 tech or whether or not it is nonetheless planning on utilizing it.
The unique article had largely fallen off the radar, however has seen elevated visitors lately because of the firm’s makes an attempt to cover it (an impact recognized popularly because the Streisand Impact).
