so does anyone want to tell me how the kid went from owning 70% of the company to literally zero? and his fathers 5% is also apparently gone too? Because apparently the future CEO is awarded 5% Annas family owns 37%, Frank owns 9%, Public owns 25%, and then there's 24% that are owned by the grandfathers friends or whatever. You tried to twist your game to be suspenseful and completely fucked up the math. Unless your saying gramps had to sell off the entire 70% of a multi-billion dollar corporation to pay off debts when he died...which is ludicrous. So the ENTIRETY of his grandfathers 70% controlling interest in a multi-billion dollar megacorporation disappeared...and he now owns NONE of the company.
Edit: ok, now i'm really confused...because they're now talking about his family (him, his mother, and sisters and father) having ownership righrts despite the numbers up above literally saying they own 0% of the company.
There were two wills.
The information from his father came from an old will - the will was changed by the grandfather shortly before his death (the father was not told about this change).
The information Madison gives you is the correct (up to date) information.
One anomaly (about the money) remains, your father tells you that your great-grantfather started the business after the Second World War, but Madison tells you that your family has vast wealth that has been accumulated over centuries (I know they are not incompatible, but it makes it look that your father knows diddly about squat).
I know about the two wills, i'm just saying they have no reason to include him at all in the CEO race...he owns zero percent of the company. and the fact the dev thought he should just erase the ENTIRE stock portfolio to make this work...its too much. I get it they wanted to add drama and make it a race, but the dev erased the kids entire interest in the company...not just some, or even most...ALL of it. This is a multi-billion dollar corporation that he owned 70% of and they acted like his debts were relatively minor and then suddenly BAM Billions of dollars in stock...all gone. The math is still all wrong anyway because they listed all the stock holders and it added up to 100% and they didn't mention his fathers 5% ownership, and unless his father is a complete moron who can't read his own stock portfolio adn didn't notice that he didn't own any of it for the last 20+ years that 5% is still there.
For what it's worth, during the time I spent editing/revising the script, the "math" is probably the one thing I spent the most time on. I had several conversations with the dev over the course of a couple of weeks trying to make sure I understood his intent, as well as the various machinations occurring behind the scenes. I'm an editor, so I was focused primarily on a coherent story, but I'm also a data analyst IRL and making sure all the numbers added up was and is *very* important to me.
All that said, the situation is inherently confusing by design. There are multiple additional variables that haven't actually been revealed yet, and who's aware of what in terms of MC's and Frank's families does not always line up. Different players are privy to different information and there isn't one character who actually knows *everything*. All I can say is be patient and let things play out. But yes, it's a bit messy and probably requires a little suspension of disbelief. I did the best I could.
unless his father is a complete moron
This aspect was somewhat reduced to context clues in the narrative, but... he pretty much is. The short version is that because of his related childhood trauma, he stays as far away from the "business" side of things -- physically and emotionally -- as he can, which in turn results in a pretty staggering level of ignorance.
