The TL: DR; is that I have worked for toxic leaders like the claims levied against Josh with one exception, that there is no allegation that Josh has made threats of physical violence on subordinates. (Aren't I lucky?)
Otherwise, he's a toxic dudebro dude-broing up the company with sycophants who cannot actually perform their roles and acting like a teenager's idealized version of an alpha male (aka louder is more correct) within a professional setting.
The allegations further state that Josh's behavior extends beyond toxic workplace culture to seemingly outright fraud, potential embezzlement, and pretty much everything we levied against him storing "his collection" at work was bullcrap. More so, he used LRG funds to grow "his collection" and never really allowed anyone else to utilize it as an archive.
Oh, and that he might have laundered a property through sale to LRG, who rented it out to his defunct software company, who then collected rent again or some such. A big circlejerk of getting LRG to pay multiple times over for this old house while using proceeds to buy a bigger fancier.
And was knowingly committing customs fraud.
Also, that every "mistake" LRG made during the past several years was fully anticipated prior and either the toxic work culture ensured corrective actions did not occur prior to release or that Josh would say "who cares, no one actually opens/plays the games anyway." Even wanting to build schemes to sell more titles off that premise. Commentary states that Josh outright knew and/or encouraged he was building products for scalpers and not collectors after a certain point (undefined on when that was in the video).
I wouldn't call it "LRG sucks" in the traditional consumer stand point, more that it's pretty much awful to all parties involved except for a select few and is actively toxic in nearly every regard.
Yes, that's a TL: DR; for a 90~ minute video.
My take: I'd believe most of the video based on their products released, what is prioritized by the company, and the public evidence of Josh's behaviour. Didn't know about his other lackies that orbited him also being unqualified turds, but that's not really a surprise either.
Again, I've worked for a "Josh" with their own turds around them and know how absolutely
ing awful that is, more so when you actually believe in and want to accomplish the good work and not spend time on the bad stuff like cost cutting and hoping no one gets smart.
While I'm not going back to read years of conjecture on the inner working of LRG, I feel like I've got enough professional experience to say I pretty much called it that Josh was bad news and LRG could be run better by a bag of hammers.
