I mean, you could see it as an investment? You know, by motivating their workers to create a very good product that then sells very well later when they are out of early access? Like a theoretical normal company should do?
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CosmoNova@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Looks like Krafton negotiated insanely bad bonus conditions and terms for themselves here. Are they adrenaline junkies or am I bad at math because it looks like they have to pay much larger bonuses than they made revenue so far.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 14 hours ago
False@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
They probably need to sell over 14 million copies at full price to break even with that bonus. The math is very bad for them. That’s not impossible, but it would make it one of the best selling games of all time
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Thanks for checking the math, that is indeed an ambitious goal to reach.
Subnautica 1 and Below Zero together sold over 18 million copies, so reaching over 14 million with only one installment is doable with the bonus of being well known now, but still very ambitious.
And just to admit: yeah I also think the CEO did an overly stupid thing with that amount of money as bonus. But he also uses ChatGPT as legal advisor, so him being stupid is something we already knew.
rtxn@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
That entire situation was ridiculous. The major points:
Folstar@lemmus.org 4 hours ago
Good summary. What’s wild to me is reading through this and pondering the frequency of these events. “Someone made an arrogant/stupid business decision” multiple times a day every day. “Someone tried to weasel out and was told that was stupid” also every day. “Went ahead with the plan anyway” - very frequent. “Tried to burn it all down” - all too often. Then we get to the turn where the wronged actually got a fair day in court- far, far less often. Then the villain of our story with $250M on the line somehow didn’t lawyer up enough to get the best justice money can buy - almost seems like fiction at this point and beyond.
expr@piefed.social 8 hours ago
So… did he use ChatGPT to write the contract in the first place? If so, that would fucking hilarious.
rtxn@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The acquisition was finalised in late 2021. No, Kim was stupid entirely on his own.
einlander@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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bomberesque@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Wild ride. That Kim bloke has been underwater and panicking for a while now