@williampietri @cstross The rewards were there from the start. I'm thinking about John Romero, whose "exploits" are fairly well documented, Cliff Bleszinski (whom I never met but my coworkers did since we were working for Epic at the time), Peter Molyneux (the ultimate over-promiser), Ken "let's make our voice actress cry" Levine, and many may others, and don't even get me started about pre-Witcher 3 CD Projekt.