No it’s not a joke. I can do all tasks related to engineering the product. If you are an artist or animator and don’t want to be on a large team, or you don’t have any skills but you are willing to produce the game (by paying for it), then you will make more money by being on a smaller team.
Again I won a lot of money in the battlefield franchise and the planetside 2 launch tournament… I really don’t have a whole lot more to code for the project. Yeah it’s real.