I imagine that if jpop  is designing the game, the already faitly well alienated US possible customers will be out with their pitchforks.

If his involvement finished before he'd dudded people out of all their money then thats not Mikes fault. If he's still on the payroll now then that's a whole different story. Either way it won't make any difference to the potential US customers, if John is/has been involved then you're on the money with the pitchforks Nick.