@wfgdrmr I am sorry but I really can’t think of an alternative interpretation of the words “thanks  for taking the time to conjecture and speculate”, quotes or not.  If someone said the words in a face to face conversation, it would always come off as sarcastic.  I really can’t think of a way that it could be said in this context without that being the case.

Also, while you do have a duty of sorts to maintain communications with Kickstarter backers when it comes to commenting on the failure of Daruma I would suggest that regardless of whether you feel a statement is false or truth is being bent from a company stand point it is still far better to say nothing – this applies equally to all parties not just yourself. The people to whom you speak have no reason to trust or believe what you say and every reason to treat it as biased at best lies at worst. You cannot, in all probability, provide evidence to back up anything you say due to the ongoing legal activities surrounding the liquidation of Daruma – even if you wanted to do so (which if it were me I would not). And so you are left in a position where all you are doing is arguing the toss with people you can’t ever convince, engaging in finger Pointing and posting in a manner likely to turn people off buying your products or backing future Kickstarters. Whilst I appreciate you giving your version of events, the best thing you could have done is to simply state that you are not in a position to and therefore will not comment on, the Daruma situation and are focused on working with Nightfall Games to deliver the Kickstarter. You might, quite rightly, argue that other people are arguing about it and saying things you disagree with and while that’s true, those people are unlikely to be ambassadors for their brand or company and so expressing their opinion or engaging in conjecture and speculation isn’t likely to be a problem. As a representative of Word Forge, your views and the way you express them can have an effect on how people view your business.