More recent IGN archive link containing salty comments from predditors and the founder Charlie.
Quick summary is that Krafton (PUBG publishers) bought Unknown Worlds in 2021 for $500 million. They apparently agreed to a conditional bonus of a further $250 million over Subnautica 2, most of which would go to the 2 founders plus former CEO. Early 2024 came and went which was when the game was supposed to be ready for Early Access, but Krafton say it was in no fit state and that these three guys are derelict or absentee, so they're out the door with no $250m and replaced with the boss from devs of Callisto Protocol. UW guys now say they're suing, game's fine and gibsmedat. Lots of commenters are crying over evil corpos or having to wait for their wokeslop, but quite a chunk are also acknowledging that there's no smoke without fire and that anyone would get lazy for $250m.
After careful reflection, considering both sides, I will cautiously state my own conclusion that:
Karma's a bitch, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
First firing the sound designer who was single-handedly responsible for the success of Subnautica because he dared to make anti-woke jokes on Twitter and now getting ousted themselves.
Haven't touched the game since he was fired and swore to myself to never ever touch another Unknown Worlds game even though I very much liked Natural Selection 2 back in the day. Couldn't be more happy about those cunts getting fucked by the publisher. Hopefully the lawsuit is gonna fuck them even harder.
More recent IGN archive link containing salty comments from predditors and the founder Charlie.
Quick summary is that Krafton (PUBG publishers) bought Unknown Worlds in 2021 for $500 million. They apparently agreed to a conditional bonus of a further $250 million over Subnautica 2, most of which would go to the 2 founders plus former CEO. Early 2024 came and went which was when the game was supposed to be ready for Early Access, but Krafton say it was in no fit state and that these three guys are derelict or absentee, so they're out the door with no $250m and replaced with the boss from devs of Callisto Protocol. UW guys now say they're suing, game's fine and gibsmedat. Lots of commenters are crying over evil corpos or having to wait for their wokeslop, but quite a chunk are also acknowledging that there's no smoke without fire and that anyone would get lazy for $250m.
After careful reflection, considering both sides, I will cautiously state my own conclusion that:
Karma's a bitch, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
First firing the sound designer who was single-handedly responsible for the success of Subnautica because he dared to make anti-woke jokes on Twitter and now getting ousted themselves.
Feels good.
Just what I was thinking.
Haven't touched the game since he was fired and swore to myself to never ever touch another Unknown Worlds game even though I very much liked Natural Selection 2 back in the day. Couldn't be more happy about those cunts getting fucked by the publisher. Hopefully the lawsuit is gonna fuck them even harder.
The new CEO would bring back so much good will to hire back the old sound designed and composer.