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Comment on Could someone please explain/Tldr the Subnautica 2 controversy? I liked the first one, but I'm severely out of the loop.

SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Basically, the devs of Subnautica 1 were working on Subnautica 2 but got bought by another company- Krafton. Krafton promised a very large bonus to the lead devs assuming the game was released by a certain time. They were on track to meet that deadline, but Krafton was insisting the game be delayed and when the developers resisted that they got fired. Now the people that were fired are suing saying that Krafton fired them to avoid paying them the bonus rather than for cause.

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onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It’s a bit more complex than that. Krafton claimed that the executives who were fired had just stopped working on the project, which is partially supported by the execs own statements that they’re stepping back to focus on personal projects.

Both parties have reasons to lie in this instance due to the massive bonus.

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- ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  The Krafton leadership blessed the execs projects, which meant they were totally aware well in advance.
  
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BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I thought the devs of 2 weren't the same people who made 1 or even the icy spinoff of 1 with all the island stuff people hated.

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- onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  The people fired were executives who were on 1
  
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- SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  There were some of the lead developers still left. But I completely agree. What I liked most about subnautica was all changed even before release. I wasn’t even going to look at the sequel.
  
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