The only flaws I see here are in Rocket’s lame excuses. A few questions came in my mind after reading his statements on Eurogamer and his formal apology letter on Reddit: When he starts to develop his climbing game by his own studio, will he say after a couple of months since the early access that his project is flawed and he will dump it after 10 months? If BI makes him a new offer with increased percentage of royalties, will he change his mind and stay until final release? If homesickness is your problem, I think you could somehow sort this out with the BI and work from NZ after you’ve completed, let’s say the 80%, of the work needs to be done. You are a self-proclaimed leader, but a true leader doesn’t quit. At least not until the job is done. Not to mention that you are way too cocky and unstable for a developer who has only participated on only one game and that’s for the Alpha stage only. You haven’t hurt fan’s feelings, you’ve mostly hurt your credibility and lost a big chance for your name to be written with golden letters in history of multiplayer gaming. Just make sure you won’t come back crawling to BI and fans asking for a second chance. You’ll reap what you sow. Good luck with whatever you are planning to do. PS I think it's time to change this: