Comments on: Care to put down your ice buckets and follow up? https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/care-to-put-down-your-ice-buckets-and-follow-up/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:00:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Of Course They Are a Scam! https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/care-to-put-down-your-ice-buckets-and-follow-up/#comment-2526890 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:00:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51442#comment-2526890 In 2011 I was contacted by TRC to learn about a really exciting new project with promises of making literally a million dollars in my first year.

But first, I had to work for free for about three months and do 100% of the artwork for an MMO pitchdeck.

I told them to eat shit and I’m happy I did. I feel very sorry for some of my old co-workers who got sucked in to their scam and lost so much.

These people should be in jail.

]]> By: Pepo https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/care-to-put-down-your-ice-buckets-and-follow-up/#comment-2458181 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:53:48 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51442#comment-2458181 I had the unfortunate experience of working at TRC. I can only say that it smells of scam from the bottom up. There was clearly no intention at any point of releasing anything as as soon as the game was “ready” to launch whole teams got fired for no reason and it was back to the drawing board. The company recruited tens of people from all over the world luring them in with false promises. The management had a complete disregard for its employees and their families while claiming to be a “family entertainment” company. Employees were being forced to work unpaid overtime daily and often weekends too. The whole enterprise came across as a psychotic monster.

]]> By: Dan Pearson https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/care-to-put-down-your-ice-buckets-and-follow-up/#comment-2442757 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:29:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51442#comment-2442757 Here you go: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-09-02-report-trc-family-entertainment-staff-unpaid-90-percent-redundancies

]]> By: Employee https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/care-to-put-down-your-ice-buckets-and-follow-up/#comment-2436547 Sun, 31 Aug 2014 19:26:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51442#comment-2436547 In reply to Employee.

The positive reviews were posted by either executives, HR or Head of HR politely forcing its staff to lie and write 1 or 2 positive reviews (I was one)

]]> By: ExE https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/care-to-put-down-your-ice-buckets-and-follow-up/#comment-2435463 Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:26:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51442#comment-2435463 Chris Deering if the joint chairman of the TRC board of directors too. And Lawrence Zammit the chairman of Malta Enterprise, is also on the TRC board of directors. http://www.trcmediagroup.com/about/the-board/

]]> By: Game Boy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/care-to-put-down-your-ice-buckets-and-follow-up/#comment-2433161 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:49:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51442#comment-2433161 Didn’t they promise to launch a MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) in 2013? What happened to that?

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2011-11-23/news/online-multimedia-company-in-malta-302222

They have only launched one children’s story book app, and a very basic drawing app. How on earth were they going to recoup all the investment?

And how on earth does a start-up company start off with $18 million worth of IP? And if they have $18 Million worth of IP, surely they could sell it off and pay their employees?

I smell a rat. They’ve been pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes, taking advantage of all the Maltese and EU support, incentives and funding, to line their own pockets.

Someone should call up Chris Deering – Malta’s “special envoy for gaming” as well as chairman of TRC – and ask him what’s going on. And get Malta Enterprise’s take on it too.

]]> By: Employee https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/care-to-put-down-your-ice-buckets-and-follow-up/#comment-2430490 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 19:27:04 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51442#comment-2430490 Former employee who lost everything because of the company, left to find our rent money and money for food while rich management had a great life. Left staff to find money to get home while we were made homeless by our landlord and then asked why are you stressed. This company should be held accountable for what they have done.

]]> By: Employee https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/care-to-put-down-your-ice-buckets-and-follow-up/#comment-2429714 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:09:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51442#comment-2429714 In reply to Kevin.

The comments are 99% spot on

]]> By: Employee https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/care-to-put-down-your-ice-buckets-and-follow-up/#comment-2429662 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:51:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51442#comment-2429662 No one at TRC has been paid his or her June, July, August salaries.

People moved country to take up a job with TRC only to find that already, it had no money. The expenses incurred by those who moved to Malta runs into the thousands of euros. Some even sold their house to move here to Malta only to be screwed just two weeks later.

To add to it if you do your research on the internet you can see these people seem to spin up companies up around the globe then close them down.

Not one of them makes any money and they scam investors and governments to secure funding for their insane pay-cheques.

]]> By: Old TRC'er https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/08/care-to-put-down-your-ice-buckets-and-follow-up/#comment-2429533 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:12:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=51442#comment-2429533 I also worked at TRC and can attest to the fact that the employees were not paid for the past 3 months. One of those Glassdoor reviews is mine, and I can say that all of them are 100% true in the negative things they are saying. It’s true that the heads seem to be getting away scotfree

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