The three claimed, however, that Krafton had betrayed them by firing them right before delaying Subnautica 2, a move they allege was designed to deliberately prevent its Early Access release, and avoid it selling well enough to trigger a $250 million bonus for the development team.
I sure haven’t, and won’t. If that’s what their leadership wants, I won’t touch it with a 10 foot pole. There are many other games, I don’t need to play this particular one that badly.
I’m not seeing any evidence of that. I looked it up and all I could find was that CEO was reinstated. Do you have a link by any chance? If the original dev team is still there I’d want to support them, if not then I’ll just pirate it
Earlier this year, publisher Krafton was accused of ignoring a court order by announcing to staff that the game was releasing in May, despite such a decision seemingly being the responsibility of the newly reinstated CEO Ted Gill.
Gill is the first person named as part of “the three”.
Personally - I’m not buying the game. Krafton still owns the studio, and they’ve done nothing to make the situation better. Court mandated remediations aside, krafton tried to abuse these devs and steal what they were owed. They’re still working under a hostile parent company and likely will become a skeleton crew in no time.
Best case scenario unknown worlds can use the money to split themselves into a new studio.
I suppose that if you’re another development studio working with Krafton, like InZOI, you’re probably looking with a lot of suspicion at every move from your publisher now.
Kinda shitty for the site to phrase this as an allegation; it is exactly what the court found occurred, so there’s no risk of misstating or libel exposure.
Disgusting if true.
What do you mean if true? They went to court and produced the ChatGPT logs that Krafton CEO used to strategize how to get out of paying the bonus.
And people buy it in record numbers anyway? 😬
I sure haven’t, and won’t. If that’s what their leadership wants, I won’t touch it with a 10 foot pole. There are many other games, I don’t need to play this particular one that badly.
Yeah, the judge reversed the layoffs and reinstated the Unknown Worlds team, and now they’ll get the bonus. But yes very awkward all around.
I’m not seeing any evidence of that. I looked it up and all I could find was that CEO was reinstated. Do you have a link by any chance? If the original dev team is still there I’d want to support them, if not then I’ll just pirate it
OK I didn’t see the article mention that. Only that they leaders were fired, and everybody lost the bonus.
I guess it ended OK then?
It does mention:
Gill is the first person named as part of “the three”.
Personally - I’m not buying the game. Krafton still owns the studio, and they’ve done nothing to make the situation better. Court mandated remediations aside, krafton tried to abuse these devs and steal what they were owed. They’re still working under a hostile parent company and likely will become a skeleton crew in no time.
Best case scenario unknown worlds can use the money to split themselves into a new studio.
It’s sad the the gaming industry so often turn toxic. 😒
the game has to sell at least 3M copies for the devs to get the $250M tho
AFAIK this is not true. The bonus is just capped. But every dollar spent is increasing their bonus until they have sold 3M copies.
I suppose that if you’re another development studio working with Krafton, like InZOI, you’re probably looking with a lot of suspicion at every move from your publisher now.
Do we know how they got their hands on those chatgpt chat logs?
OpenAI produces them once the laywers subpoena them.
I assume the judge told openai to hand it over?
Kinda shitty for the site to phrase this as an allegation; it is exactly what the court found occurred, so there’s no risk of misstating or libel exposure.
Yes, if you are unfamiliar with the situation, like I was, it isn’t 100% clear IMO.