Sorta, The CEO did come into money at some point in his life, but always has been into developing games since Atari. Very down to earth guy. I have had a chance to meet a lot of the HiRez employees one on one and think they are all pretty cool. This community just hates on em because Tribes.
I have been their Twich mod since TA days and have been invited to the Smite launch tourney, World Championship last year, and just got invited to this years. They put on one hell of a party for the players, employees and me, lol.
Smite is doing very well for them. Not sure how Paladins will play out.
Happy, you went to the wrong streamer, he is so BM, and the bans fly in his chat so often its not even funny. He does had tons of followers and subs, I dont know why, it hurts to watch his stream.
I cant help you getting unbanned from that one, not sure you would even want to be anyway, lol. But most other HiRez popular game streams I am a mod in and can help ya out. Just see Stoenr.