Yeah, there's a lot of entitlement in this post. It sounds like this person is mad that they heavily financially contributed to an open-source project and they didn't get a return on their investment.
I don't have enough context from this post alone to understand what is going on with the $8MM situation, but if the rest of the post is anything to go by, sounds like a nothingburger.
If I understood the person is also the maintainer of the forums (dev + admin), so probably more contribution in time than money, and the time being significant part of the person life.
He mentioned that just paying for the forms cost $100s a month, so yes he is investing heavily.
Having that kind of money to throw at it makes it kind of odd that he doesn't understand financing and how it would be fraudulent to raise money for W4 and then spend it on the game engine
Eh, people can have money and not understand finance. Early in my career I had a very lucky and very lucrative contract that gave me a six figure income at 23 years old. I was not experienced enough to understand financing but I paid for a lot of things for other people’s projects and hobbies because I felt like doing so.
I don't have enough context from this post alone to understand what is going on with the $8MM situation, but if the rest of the post is anything to go by, sounds like a nothingburger.