If the game was bad or not really has no impact on the suit.

Stardock does not allow discussion about their court cases on their forums, and I expect this topic to be closed. The frog closed the thread about Rebellion sueing for some name infringement thingie.

In a world that is so about money, even people from companies who do get around to saying sorry sorta try to blame it on something or someone or other.  Brad/Stardock has been better than most people, companies but he and it are not perfect.

People who post sensationalist conclusions should probably read the actual filing. If we wanted to blame the overall quality of the game all on an individual malicious employee, we could have done that 2 years ago and saved ourselves a lot of trouble in the repeated, public communications on what went wrong with that title.

On the other hand I don't know what to even say to someone who doesn't recognize the impact that a malicious employee in a management position could have in the final crunch weeks of a software development project.