The video game industry is experiencing its moment of greatest popularity and that also translates into multimillion-dollar revenues and profits. However, it seems that everything is falling apart inside as reports of labor problems do not stop appearing and just as they happen in large companies, it also happens in those that serve a small niche. Unfortunately, this is the situation of the workers of Motorsport Games, currently responsible for the video games of the NASCAR series.
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Employee threatens to release source code of 4 video games if his colleagues are not paid
According to an Insider-Gaming report, Motorsport Games continues to sink as the financial situation has reached such a degree that a worker lost patience and threatened what remains of the board to demand payment of salaries. The report comes from sources who requested anonymity, saying an employee contacted CEO Dmitry Kozko and his remaining board members directly, demanding payment of salaries that have not been received since October 2022. ; Otherwise, it will release the source code of 4 of the company’s video games on the Internet.
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Namely, the employee would have the source code for NASCAR: Ignition 21, NASCAR: HEAT 5, Indycar and KartKraft, which would be released if an estimated 30-strong workforce is not paid. In this regard, the sources indicated that the climate in the study is not surprising since they expected this to happen sooner rather than later due to the financial situation that is going through.
In this regard, in recent weeks it was revealed that the entire Motorsport board of directors resigned after the debacle suffered by its finances after reporting revenues of $1.2 million and losses of $7.5 million in the last fiscal quarter. This situation would have led to an exodus of developers who are sure the company will go under leaving a group that just wants to get paid before leaving. In this sense, they consider that Indycar is the game that represents the greatest risk in the event that the code is released since its launch is close and after that a NASCAR installment will follow, as long as Motorsport Games is still alive.
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