GameFam Suspended Employee Pay and Revoked Communication Access

[DaBigJ]

GameFam, creators of Sonic Speed Simulator, have been under fire before tor mistreating their employees, and unfortunately they continue to do so despite the public backlash.

Above are screenshots of/from legal papers showing them threatening an employee over pay, and have refused them of a quarter bonus on top of revoking access to communication. Whether or not things escalate all depends on the video the OP plans on releasing, which I will share as soon as it's public.

Please spread these tweets around, GameFam must be held accountable for this.

[Ellipsis-Ultima]

The employee in question has talked more about this:

The things said here track with the experiences said back in December last year. Hoping for the best for those employees.

[CrownSlayer’s Shadow]

A lesson in how not to run a business, I presume?

[ShinyGems]

Here is a possible update here.

 

[GX -The Spindash-]

1 minute ago, ShinyGems said:

Here is a possible update here.

XD Or here.

 

[ShinyGems]

Just now, GX -The Spindash- said:

XD Or here.

Well, looks like I was too fast. Not going to say you were too slow; I don’t want to say that, anyway, but yeah; it is good you covered and posted that.

[LegoFedora]

You know in hindsight, considering this was a roblox game we probably should've seen this coming. It's amazing how much shady stuff goes down when developing roblox games.

[GX -The Spindash-]

8 minutes ago, LegoFedora said:

You know in hindsight, considering this was a roblox game we probably should've seen this coming. It's amazing how much shady stuff goes down when developing roblox games.

Even still, "This was a roblox game" is used too often to lump this kind of behavior in with other issues associated with the platform (which it absolutely does have, let's not ignore that).

In this specific instance, it's not a Roblox issue and I'm not inclined to think it should be considered among the other issues surrounding the platform. This is a game studio, employee rights, and actual legal issue. Gamefam does not present themselves as a small dev making small projects. They team up with major brands for branding collaborations across multiple platforms. If you're a professional studio, you aught to know the legal rights of your employees, and how utterly cynical it makes them look if their reaction is "You're not a team player if you're scrutinizing our pay policies."

[DaBigJ]

51 minutes ago, LegoFedora said:

You know in hindsight, considering this was a roblox game we probably should've seen this coming. It's amazing how much shady stuff goes down when developing roblox games.

Maybe it's the fault of the people instead of Roblox itself

[Blacklightning]

9 hours ago, DaBigJ said:

Maybe it's the fault of the people instead of Roblox itself

When it's a case of a handful of bad apples, one could indeed fault the community alone.

When it's a systemic issue plaguing huge swaths of your service and games that use it, the perception is that not only is the service flagrantly ignoring it, they're also practically enabling it because in all likelihood they also directly profit from it. And right now, Roblox is FIRMLY more in the latter camp than the former. I'm not going to say individual developers don't have any blame, but Roblox has a responsibility to monitor and moderate the conduct of people who use their platform and should absolutely not encourage this.

Of course they won't do that, because again, they directly profit from it.

 

[DaBigJ]

Okay, very true, I didn't think of that. My bad