Stardock sues former employee for $1M over the failure of Elemental

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http://www.bluesnews.com/s/134520/stardock-sues-ex-employee-for-usd-1m

The case alleges that Miseta deleted, destroyed and/or stole Stardock's Elemental materials, analytics, and trade show information just before quitting, causing the company to lose all their marketing data and analytics for Elemental: War of Magic only three weeks before the game's scheduled launch.

Stardock claims that it was forced to spend more than $5000 assessing the damaged caused by Miseta's actions and attempting to restore the Elemental materials, analytics, and trade show information, and that the interruption in availablility of this data caused Stardock to lose more than $1 million in profits.

Stardock says in its filing that the loss of the materials led to a detraction from programming, debugging, and other responsibilities, and Elemental was subsequently unsuccessful in the marketplace, "earning a fraction of its anticipated profits and causing [Stardock] damages of over $1,000,000".

In addition to this, Stardock claims that Miseta did not return the company laptop she had been using, and had in fact been running side businesses during work hours using the company laptop.

There are no words.

 

[I.S.T.]

Considering what the guy is alleged to have done, then yes if true it did likely lead to a loss of money simply due to a higher production cost(Though obviously, the game's poor quality lead to far more of the profit loss than anything he ever did. ).

 

[John Reynolds]

How do they know she used the laptop during company hours for other stuff when she never returned it?

I've heard that Miseta was suing Wardell, and that this suit is to force the other one to drop. And if she has a decent lawyer, Wardell has publicly stated numerous times on numerous forums that Elemental's failure was entirely his for making the decision to release the game when it clearly wasn't anywhere near ready for public consumption.