Epic Games has been in the news a lot lately, and not for the best of reasons. At the end of last month, the Fortnite developer let go of around 16% of its workforce, which impacted a whopping roughly 830 employees. Around that time, Hato Moa, the developer of the bird-based dating sim Hatoful Boyfriend called the company out via Twitter for failing to pay owed royalties.
According to Moa, when Epic acquired Mediatonic in 2021, the royalties ceased. But, in a surprisingly hopeful turn of events, Epic has reached out to Moa publicly with confirmation that the company is “looking into” said missing royalties.
btw I’ve got no royalty payment for Hatoful Boyfriend from Epic since they acquired Mediatonic back in spring 2021. I don’t think the sales have been zero for two years?
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