Quoted from Toppers:

I’ve heard all sorts of horror stories about pat. I’ve heard that Pat is the one who pulled the plug on the spinning disc on pirates, the chest Mod, and said they were unreliable... but they had fully operational and fully working and reliable mechs at the time of that decision. Everything was coded and ready to go. I wasn’t told this directly but from what I gathered is there was some serious jealously with Eric and his game. Especially after Pats flopped dialed in.... (sales wise) the monkey thing on WOZ was because Pat wanted to reuse old cabinets and that Mech didn’t fit into the game. Was never about making it more reliable or anything like that. Sell for more and give less is Pats model sadly. Also heard pat dislikes wide bodies.. doesn’t make sense why he now dislikes them unless it’s all tied to the bottom dollar. I’m don’t know if we will ever see a wide body again from jjp. Jjp was started on wide bodied epic pins with tons of shots and mechs that made your draw drop. Now we get a spinning Gob stopper in a standard body cab... Some people are excited Pat is working on toy story. (Dream theme of mine) I’m very saddened by it actually. I know it will not be a true jjp game as we knew them from the old days. I’ve also heard that working with him is a pain in the butt. When you couple what I’ve personally heard from peoples mouths with all the rumors flying around it’s not hard to believe it as fact.

Quoted from solarvalue:

story that Pat Lawlor is some kind of insecure egomaniac control-freak who was so threatened by Eric's 3 spinning discs that he squashed the production of POTC, took over the company, convinced Abess to move the factory half way across the country and fired Butch.

Quoted from Rdoyle1978:

Yep, 1,000%

Quoted from drfrightner:

.... what will we do without him?

Quoted from drfrightner:

But to stay on the topic here... he had NO BUSINESS highlighting a personal situation between a company and an employee. That is a personal matter between the two parties. Low blow if you ask me! Shows just what kind of class this guy has.