CZ_Rage said:
I guess you misunderstood what I wanted to say:
1. If the guys were only stupid or lacked the experience or wharever non-scamming reason prevented them from finishing the project, you have no legal hammer to come down on them if they are a Limited.
2. If they are scammers, and this can be proven, the law will come down on them - but it´s doubtful that you will be fully compensated as victim.
Better now?
Oh, sorry, I used "scam" in a more general sense, as "they are intentionally asking for less money than they could make a game with away with", not as in "they never planned to make a game to begin with".
What I said still applies to the former, not just to proper scammers. If you created a Limited solely as a personal shield, likely there are enough loopholes that it can be broken down.
On #2, I agree that actually getting compensated is unlikely, (especially if they had bigger creditors, like banks or investors, who would get first dibs on their property even after a successful lawsuit.)
Though we are talking about a few dollars per person here anyways, so the important thing is not that everyone gets their money back, but that failure gets punished and needless risk-taking get discouraged.
