The situation seems to be a cluster fuck with both sides not in the clear.
Krafton did a scummy move but the devs have a poor track record:
• Fucking over the composer for the god like soundtrack for the first game.
• the DEI slop of the Below Zero expansion
In my opinion, Krafton may have done the bonus to encourage them to work to earn it, similar to what happened to Obsidian and Fallout New Vegas. Unlike that situation where their publisher fucked them over to not give it, this seems more that the publisher still saw no results so fired them than risk the franchise.
• Fucking over the composer for the god like soundtrack for the first game.
Not just composer. Sound designer too. In other words without him Subnautica would have never been as successful as it was as the sound design is the very heart of the game.
I saw Arch's take as many others.
The situation seems to be a cluster fuck with both sides not in the clear.
Krafton did a scummy move but the devs have a poor track record:
• Fucking over the composer for the god like soundtrack for the first game.
• the DEI slop of the Below Zero expansion
In my opinion, Krafton may have done the bonus to encourage them to work to earn it, similar to what happened to Obsidian and Fallout New Vegas. Unlike that situation where their publisher fucked them over to not give it, this seems more that the publisher still saw no results so fired them than risk the franchise.
Not just composer. Sound designer too. In other words without him Subnautica would have never been as successful as it was as the sound design is the very heart of the game.
I bought the soundtrack for that game because it was so good, them fucking him over like that soured any desire to buy anything else they make.
Hell I only played the first game again as an update brought in larger rooms.
Same. Messaged him on then twitter about how good his work was. Seemed like an alright guy.