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I believe them as far as I can throw them tbh. These guys also bought Last Epoch so they better watch themselves before they get a 2nd game's community mad at them.

I'll wait and see.

It's quite weird , any top game today gets close to 100 copy's within a few months of a hit yet subnautica wasn't copied even 1 time not even shoddy.

It's weird I just want more subnautica like games. Under sea crafting survival with some mystery.

"We wanted a fresh new debacle instead!"

Edit:

"As Unknown Worlds’ sole stockholder, Krafton had invested $500 million in the success of not only Subnautica 2, but also Subnautica 3, Subnautica 4, and any other future Subnautica franchise product.”

Ew. Survival games benefit more than most genres from iteration, but that's better done as updates and expansions unless they make a truly qualitative leap, which I doubt will happen under their leadership. This reeks of them wanting to pump out as many full-priced titles as possible, probably with an ever-higher price tag as Subnautica becomes an established IP.

So do they not actually know what happened with KSP2? Because this isn't going to avoid it. It's basicslly the same exact mistake.

In a lawsuit filed last month, the cofounders claimed Krafton tried to sabotage Subnautica 2‘s planned Early Access launch this year to avoid paying a $250 million bonus it had agreed to at the time Unknown Worlds was sold if the studio hit certain revenue targets in 2025 and early 2026. The legal complaint alleged that Krafton violated the terms of the deal by overriding the studio’s independence and firing the cofounders without cause.

In its response filed on August 12, Krafton denies most of the allegations in the original complaint and argues that it was the cofounders who were trying to rush Subnautica 2 out into the wild despite being behind on its expected content scope. When the company tried to enlist the cofounders, who were not directly involved in the game’s development, to get it back on track, it says it was rebuffed. Krafton claims it had no choice but to remove them from the studio in order to protect Subnautica 2 and prevent a disastrous launch.

“We made a deal in which they had to successfully launch the game and get a big payment when they hit certain revenue targets, but we had to fire them because they only wanted the money for which they had to make a good game, they didn’t wanted to make a good game, they were in only for the money, for which - again - they had to make a good game, they were clearly sabotaging the game!”

They are so full of shite. Corporate BS 101.

Krafton, past named Bluehole Studio, has a terrible track record from the start, stealing Lineage's source code to make Tera Online.

So from what I understand. That 250$ million bonus to "employees" was almost all going to like 3 people. The smaller bonus that was going to actual employees, they said they would honor it anyways.

I'm happy those three founders gave us the first subnautica, but I'd rather a better game on release then something rushed so they get a payday (they also already got paid when they sold their company in any case).

Really hard to say who is in the right without having gameplay footage or real details, but it wouldn't surprise me if it does need more time and it was going to come out as a mess.