Leslie Benzies, a lead designer at Rockstar Games, has apparently started a million-dollar lawsuit addressed to his previous employers, Take-Two and Rockstar Games, responsible for the popular Grand Theft Auto V on which he himself worked.
It seems that the lawsuit has no other objective than report both companies for not having been paying their royalties or additional royalty money corresponding to the progressive success of GTA V, both in DLC content and in the original game in its multiple platforms; which apparently leads to a total of $150 million, an impressive amount in any industry.
According to Benzies’ lawyer, “after take a gap year Mr. Benzies discovered numerous disappointments on the part of Take-Two, Rockstar, Rockstar North Ltd, Sam Houser and Dan Houser so he was forced to leave the company and terminate his portion of the royalty payments based on arbitrary actions by the company’s Royalty Allocation Committee, a committee you may or may not have ever met.”
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