A good question.

His work amounted to him keeping apparently over One Million Dollars of people's money so his work should have made him very comfy over the years.

Will his design work live on, probably, if the "new" company keep paying him the $$ he wants on a weekly or quarterly or yearly basis from them.

Will anyone ever get their $17,000 USA and climbing proto type pinny ? Who knows.
If JPop pulls the pin at any stage, the whole future is again down the toilet.
That's why Pintasia would be mad to get into bed with someone who has already failed so highly of a grand scale.
It's only another 2 to 5 years minimum according to Zidware.
The whole thing is such a letdown and smells bad of dishonesty.

I am waiting to see the PinballNews story on the whole debacle. Martin from PinballNews writes a great article about these types of stories. Will have to check his site again cause he always gets to the real story.