So, to summarize: You took players' money, went quiet for 4 months, blame someone else say you're going to pay back the money you took.
Question: where is the refund money supposed to come from?
Question: why announce after 4 months that you're going to announce something in a few days? Couldn't you wait a few more days and just announce it without pre-announcing whatever it is you'll come up with?

it became clear that continuing to work with the existing owners was no longer viable, and we terminated the partnership.

So what happened exactly? Someemployees fired the owners? That would be first time I hear anything like that.


And this message is signed by who? By some employees which managed somehow to fire the owners of a business?