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Poor timing considering the subnautica drama

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[–] PoorYorick@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

This is going to end badly.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Alright who tf is Krafton and why are they colonising dev studios all of a sudden

(rhetorical - I'll be researching them later)

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're the publisher of PUBG, and after making infinite money off of that, they're diversifying.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Battleroyale game studios enshittifying the entire industry, lovely. I have nothing against the genre but I do wish it's popularity would sink for a decade or so

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

At least they saved Tango Gameworks.

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

hope it fares better for them than the subnautica 2 devs.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Narrator: It didn't.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe this comment will age poorly, but I have a feeling it will. Subnautica 2's contract was signed in the middle of market mania with very unreasonable sums of money at stake. Krafton should honor the insane deal they made instead of everything we've seen lately, but I doubt they'll make a deal like that again after the gold rush ended.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That doesn't really read to me like a good sign. If Krafton is willing to do what they did to Subnautica's team, then basically no contract they sign is worth the paper it's written on. Seeing them effectively murder their own project and dismantle a proven successful developer like this doesn't inspire confidence that they'll be more graceful in handling others.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago

It doesn't inspire confidence, but we're not looking at a market where people are expecting there to be no ceiling to gaming anymore, so I doubt they bought this studio for hundreds of millions of dollars like they did Unknown Worlds.

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago
[–] DNU@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

same old same old :( atleast we still have grim dawn

[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Wall that sucks. On the bright side, the game has a full offline mode, so as long as I can stop or revert updates, there’s only so much they can ruin it for me.

[–] kurcatovium@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it time to cross it from my wishlist already?

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Given what they are doing to the Subnautica 2 devs, cross it off and forget it ever existed

[–] kurcatovium@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But man, it looked so promising... Well, probably time to look at Grim Dawn DLCs instead.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

There's also a promising-looking Titan Quest II around the corner (hopefully not perpetually around the corner...it's been a long time coming).

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Grim Dawn is the best. Not even close when comparing to last epoch

[–] Yamanashi@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It feels like they've been acquiring a lot of studios recently. Hopefully it doesn't crumble all at once. And hopefully they don't force LE to put slop monetization into the game.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fuck fuck fuck.

Edit: oh wait I bought Grim Dawn it still fucking blows since LE was looked at as a PoE alternative