Factor 5 (now former) artist Sam Baker wrote a blog post the other day detailing some troubles at the company, which has since gained quite a bit of fame ("quite shocking[ly]" to him), making its way to the pages of 1UP, Edge, Shacknews, and more. This, evidently, has caused a rift between him and the studio, who may now sue him. Some excerpts from the now-deleted post read as follows:

“I find out no one at Factor 5 had been paid in a month.... and we weren't going to any time soon. If we left, there would have been no hope in F5 staying afloat. Then we lost health care. Ok, who needs it? If we're going to eventually be paid, some sacrifices would be worth it. I had my own on the side, so I wasn't sweating it. Then things turned bad...”

Baker continued, reportedly saying a project they'd been working on for eight months (rumoured to be a new Superman game) had been scrapped (this he later stated was inaccurate) and “the president of the company basically told us that if we didn't receive funding in 1 week, all of us should move on and look elsewhere for another job… I have 1 more week left at Factor 5.” It was later stated by him the troubles were due to the recent closing of licensed game producer Brash Entertainment, with which they had a multi-game deal.

The entire archive at the blog is now gone (even the cached version it seems), replaced by one post which talks about the aforementioned misinterpretation which was on the part of 1UP, and the reason for the deletion ("[my blog] contained information that['s] easy to misinterpret"). Baker has since resigned from F5.

An anonymous "well-placed" source has come forth on the matter:

"The thing that bothers me the most about it all is they could have avoided all of this ages ago. It wasn't really the Brash deal going south that was the big problem, but it didn't help much either.

On the topic of how widespread the story got, the source commented: "[Baker's] young, and was totally devastated by his new found fame. He didn't think anything of it, innocently posting his heartfelt concerns.

The kicker is, Factor 5 is thinking of suing [Baker] for good measure."

Multiple calls made to the studio by Edge were left unanswered as of press time.