All photos missing from mindark.com, except for the CEO himself

Didn't ND claim in an interview that they are all gone or something like that?

 

Eurogamer interview from July last year, 8 months after Klas Moreau has left. If he was talking about Moreau who were the other guys?

""I'll go public with this," he says after some consideration, "the CEO of MindArk is gone. The one who is the CEO, and the other guys, they've gone." - https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-17-face-to-face-with-the-president-of-virtual-reality

Btw:



Unrelated but it's so weird to read such statements from the past:

 

MindArk is not your typical company, though. The first CEO was Jan Welter Timkrans, one of the founders of the game. At some point he was ousted at a shareholder meeting, and replaced with Johan Andinsson. Timkrans went and secured an absent shareholder, and took back the throne shortly after.

Jan Welter Timkrans also excels at attempting to bully scientists who dare question their PR.

At some point, David Ssimmonds, a long-time cronie of Timkrans was appointed CEO. His qualifications prior to joining MindArk were as a sales person, and a business owner. Other than that, he's amazing at admiring himself, finding porn coverart to use for advertising purposes, and kissing the butt of Jan Welter Timkrans. That's sufficient in the MindArk world, but it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that under his guidance, MindArk accomplished exactly jack shit.

Timkrans has a son, Kim, by the way. The same Kim Welter Timkrans who effectively heads Planet Calypso; a MindArk subsidiary and planet partner (which seems like an odd thing to do considering Planet Calypso competes directly with other MindArk Planet Partners for the attention of the players. One would think that in such a case, all hints of favoritism are to be avoided at all costs, but apparently Timkrans fails to see this). This has led to a few interesting cases, such as Kim being privy to information other partners had not received, or having access and insights into new systems, or systems under development. He also attempted to claim an idea of a PP as his own, and after Monria attempted to use Runes (and were denied), implemented Runes on Calypso. But there's no conflict of interest at MindArk/Planet Calypso (claim MindArk / Planet Calypso).

Following David Ssimmonds as CEO was Klas Monreau, who prior to joining MindArk worked for Ericsson. And when Klas left, the new guy took over, and attempted to launch an ICO (which failed, or according to MindArk, was a grand old successstory that later on was pulled anyway).


So apart from Klas, the other former CEOs still work there. They're not exactly qualified or capable of doing much else, so they won't be giving up their gravy train any time soon. The talented people mostly left when MindArk split up into MindArk, and Planet Calypso (or whatever the name was at that time. That company was headed at that time by Marco Behrman, the former MindArk community manager. That company was sold to SEE Virtual Worlds, who shortly after taking ownership pulled out for "undisclosed reasons", and who MindArk ended up having to pay a bunch of money). When the company dissolved, Timkrans apparently was upset the employees in there didn't want to rejoin MindArk before, and thus refused to rehire them. So they left. The game has been suffering from a creative writer's block ever since.


TLDR: The Swedish clownsquad is a bunch of amateurs.