That entire situation was ridiculous. The major points:

• Yes, that contract was stupidly favorable to Unknown Worlds. It was negotiated by none other than Chang-ham Kim, CEO of Krafton.
• Kim later realized that and wanted to back out of the contract because it would’ve made him look like a pushover. He employed the help of ChatGPT, which told him that it was a stupid fucking idea.
• He went ahead with the plan anyway. He fired Unknown Worlds’ three co-founders for made-up reasons and appointed Steve Papoutsis as the CEO
• He tried to sabotage the game’s development by disrupting communication between Unknown Worlds and other departments, to push the early access launch beyond the window where the 250M could be earned.
• Obviously it went to court. Krafton tried to change the story about the reason the co-founders were fired based on information that they discovered afterwards, but the judge was having none of that chicanery.
• During discovery, the ChatGPT logs and some conversations were revealed that implicated Krafton.
• The court ruled in Unknown Worlds’ favour. The judge ordered the Ted Gill to be reinstated as CEO (the other two co-founders chose not to return) and the bonus window to be extended by several months to account for the time that they didn’t have conrol of the company.
• As a last fuck-you, Papoutsis prematurely announced Subnautica 2’s early access launch. Gill had no idea about the state of development.
• Subnautica 2 then went on to be a massive success, Krafton is in the doghouse, and Chang-ham Kim is now known to be both a pushover and a fucking idiot.