According to a report published in Bloomberg News, former 38 Studios employees (the RPG / MMORPG studio founded by former Boston Red Sox player Curt Schilling) are finally receiving the last salaries the company owed them when it collapsed.
Bankruptcy papers filed by the head of 38 studies, Jeoffrey Burtch, state that employees will receive between 14 and 20 percent of the money the company owes.
A former anonymous employee of 38 Studios told Bloomberg that they had received his check, but apparently others have been sent to former employee addresses, who have had to move around the country to get new jobs in the years since that the studio ran out of money. .
The bankruptcy and collapse of 38 studios had a dramatic impact not only on the gaming industry, but also in the tri-state area of New England. The company had been built in part thanks to a loan from the Rhode Island state government, and its bankruptcy left developers underpaid, underwater with their mortgages and the state of Rhode Island in a small financial crisis.
The studio had been built in part to support Schilling’s vision of developing a massively multiplayer online game that could compete World of Warcraft. The studio managed to send the critically acclaimed (but only with a modest economic return) Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning before collapsing.
As his former employees struggled to reach their extremes, Schilling would go on to become a right-wing political figure and eventually lose his job of commenting on ESPN for a series of transphobic posts on social media.
This year he published in support of the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, possibly costing him a seat in the Baseball Hall of Fame.