Take with a grain of salt but this just happened. You can watch the video for all the info. The tl;dr is that Winged Cloud (the company behind Sakura visual novels) and Sekai project mistreat their workers and do all kind of shady shit.
Summary:
>Winged Cloud refused to address any complaints about their F2P browser games their community manager passed on to them, and when protests of the issues came to a head with a long hyped update being nothing but Lootboxes instead of real content (I shit you not), the CEO (Nick Fahr) placed all blame on the community manager for it and fired him the next day.
>Underpays artists with claims of financial troubles in the company that don't add up in comparison to the profits Winged Cloud was actually drawing in
>One of the artists, Wanaca, is underpaid even worse than the others, if not outright not paid whatsoever - Former employees paint the image that Wanaca is being held in cultlike conditions and not allowed to take outside commissions, with evidence pointing towards here being forced to stay on-board these past several years with blackmail/gaslighting/other social manipulation.
>Forces employees to delete all their old social media and use company-controlled accounts that Nick Fahr has access to, putting their social-life under Winged Cloud's control.
>Scammed musicians by running with sample-work without paying.
>Swapped, obfuscated, and falsified credits for art and programming.
>Cuts off Michaela's original script for Sakura Spirit without telling her, and do a total rewrite with her in the dark about her work going to waste.
>Sekai Project (re)hires her to be the voice-director for Winged Cloud's next visual novel, Guardian Spell - However Sekai wants the TOTAL voiceacting budget AFTER Kickstarter for the FULL game with thousands of lines per character to be a measly $250 - Not per role, but split across all the voiceactors.
>Michaela is able to negotiate with Sekai and Winged Cloud to increase the voice budget to $100 per voiceactor. Still appallingly low, but the voicecast is desperate to have something on their resume.
>After the success of the Kickstarter, Winged Cloud and Sekai Project keep postponing the start of dubbing, refusing to pass on the script to Michaela with excuses about delays including throwing writers under the bus.
>After five months of not receiving the script, the Kickstarter is cancelled - BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE:
>Sekai Project puts out a press-release regarding the Kickstarter's failure, and blames Michaela and her team as a chief reason for the failure of Guardian Spell, claiming they were asking for an excessive amount of money above what their contract agreed to.
>Niche-gaming news sites run with the story, causing damages to Michaela and the rest of the team's fledgling voiceacting careers