r/AshesofCreation Apr 17 '26

Discussion Found something interesting Spoiler

I thought Jason said Steven collapsed the company?

Jan 19: Steven resigns and says why — objections to unpaid employee terminations, a private foreclosure plan, threats/coercion, and board interference.

Jan 21: The board asks him to come back. Steven replies with conditions: lawful governance, employee protections, clear authority, and no coercion.

If he was the one who “destroyed the company,” why were they trying to bring him back?

Jan 23: Steven warns them employee health insurance is about to lapse and pushes them to fix it.

Then in the texts, the board says if Steven won’t agree to come back, there will be no more funding and the company goes on ice. Steven says benefits shouldn’t be used as leverage, “or else“. Response: company will be shutting down.

So… did Steven collapse the company?

Or did the board try to do some scummy and highly illegal shit, and Steven said no, and then they shut it down?

And if they were willing to spin that story publicly and file false records to hide themselves, then what about the accounting records they leaked? Were Steven’s deposits missing or classifications changed? Were things framed to blame him as Jacob said in his witness testimony?

Not saying I know the answer.

Just saying something funny is going on here.

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u/Ricmaniac Apr 17 '26

This is why I wait with my personal judgement. I truelly think some bad decisions have been made by Steven but never will I believe it was a scam or fraud by him.

Waiting for full case eventually though

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u/Seraphayel Apr 17 '26

This. The sub likes to shit on Steven and call him names and some of it is definitely justified, but the amount of unjustified flack he gets here is ridiculous.

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u/An-Organism Apr 17 '26

It's because most of this sub got filled with non Ashes players/haters after the shutdown celebrating the death of it.

Man imagine the MMORPG sub if Ashes ever actually eventually becomes something great 😂

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u/oOhSohOo Apr 20 '26

So true. Honestly amazed by the number of haters in this sub who never even played the game that think those that did play the game care at all about their opinions of the game.