The Escapist is run by bigger douches than me
 

Extra Credits peeps are not only getting screwed out of being paid at all, but Escapist is still claiming rights to their IP and all existing episodes. THAT'S PRETTY DOUCHEY.

I'm also hearing they want like 75% of the money that the Extra Credits guys raised to help their artist with her operation?

GODDAMN SON.

Anywho, I'll add sources when I get some, mostly just been seeing this from the Extra Credits guys, and apparently this isn't the first time Escapist has screwed over people, or so I hear.

So yeah, I'm hella glad I stopped visiting the Escapist months ago.

EDIT: A source

Man, What The Fuck. Why didn't they just ...not post a video or do one protesting their pay. Hell if they did a video protesting their pay they would have defiantly gotten enough money to start their own gaming news site.

Hm. This is disappointing to hear as I actually enjoy Movie Bob even Yahtzee occasionally.

I'm not passing any judgment till I hear some more details/evidence. It's a lot of one side's word against the other.

Escapist has posted a response

Does make me kinda wonder what's going on here, except for two things.

1. They've lost people before for now paying them.

2. They're blaming the recession for their inability to pay their content contributors.

That second one is just complete bullshit. Either they intentionally mislead or they hired outside their means and made promises they simply couldn't keep. NEITHER of these things paint them in a particularly positive light and make me skeptical of everything else they're claiming regarding this. Especially as the Extra Credits guy is telling them to just publish the emails to clear the air. If the Extra Credits guy was in the wrong I don't think he'd be doing this.

This isn't the only one that's having problems. Based on what Escapist is saying here, I have to wonder about Pro Gamer's Gauntlet as well...

-E- Ok, the end is causing me concern...

So instead of sitting down and coming to an agreement, they're preparing an official statement? Well, I like Moviebob, I like his commentary, but seeing as how Escapist sits there and screws people over, I'm moving to Screw Attack.

Would you mind posting the text from that? I don't have a Facebook account.

The entirety of the text was edited into the article in the first post.

Been seeing a lot of people come forward as having not been paid by the Escapist. Some really new and some who used to be there. So the whole recession thing is, like I said, bullshit. They continued to bring on people they couldn't pay despite telling those people they could pay them, and at the same time weren't paying the people they already had on-staff. What a bunch of assholes.

The Escapist lucked out early on by picking up Yahtzee. Up until recently the only things I found worth watching were Zero Punctuation, Extra Credits, Critical Miss and occasionally Moviebob. Aside from that they've always had a gajillion columns and articles, the vast majority of which are poorly written, incredibly biased, stolen, or a combination thereof.

What I find funny about their response to Extra Credits' outburst is that James Portnow apparently came to The Escapist saying "Hey, now would be a GREAT time for you to pay me all that cash you owe me," and they apparently suggested that he do a charity run instead. And then when he DID do a charity run they tried to take a ton of the money because it was their idea.