14 DAY TRIAL // Curt Schilling, the former baseball star turned video game development leader, has stated that the blame for the problems that have affected his own 38 Studios and subsidiary Big Huge Games were caused mainly by the actions of the Rhode Island government and the statements the governor himself made.
Speaking to the local Providence Journal, Schilling has said that state officials refused to honor an agreement that would have allowed the game developer to claim tax credits linked to the film industry.
The state was also initially set to defer a payment that was scheduled for May 1 in order to allow 38 Studios to meet its payroll on May 15.
Lincoln Chafee, the independent governor of Rhode Island, has also commented on the success of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and on the prospects of the company, which, according to Schilling, caused publisher Electronic Arts to renounce its intentions of funding a sequel and the Copernicus MMO.
Answering critics that have claimed the former baseball star is in no way affected by the fact that all the employees at 38 Studios are now without a job, Schilling has claimed that he will lose 50 million dollars (40.1 million Euro) of his own money.
Electronic Arts has already said that it was not interested in the Kingdoms of Amalur intellectual property, despite claims that interested parties could pick it up for as little as 20 million dollars (15.8 million Euro).
Reckoning was launched during February and failed to meet an initial sales target of 3 million copies across all platforms.
The game was set to introduce gamers to a new universe that would then be fully explored via the Copernicus MMO, which was set to launch on the PC during 2013.
Most of the developers that 38 Studios employed are now seeking employment with other developers.