Chris hasn't put a penny into the game for as long as I knew him. He has put in a lot of time but that is on his own accord since he wanted to be a writer. In fact I'd actually say Chris has probably made over a grand playing the game and selling game cash for money.
99% of game owners would have IP banned him from their game. Mike just stopped him being able to yap on the forums. Chris knew fine well that his one liner was gonna get him banned. I am sure he was as surprised as most of us that he could log into his account the next day. Forgiveness is earned - for a while after the bans if you looked at the rejected avatar section all you would see is Mike Tycoon is a nazi avatars. Not exactly what i'd call an apology for what was said and asking forgiveness.