Krafton still supporting Subnautica 2 launch despite Steam page change

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• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gill doesn’t have to launch the game until September 15 to be eligible for the $250 million bonus at the center of the lawsuit.

  Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier reported last year that, should Subnautica 2 meet the necessary revenue targets to trigger the bonus, a portion of it will be shared among some of Unknown Worlds’ staff.

  I’m half-expecting the share given to employees to be a couple million tops and fans to turn on both sides, just to put the cherry on this crap sundae of a scandal.

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  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The original deal was that 90% went to the three execs and 10% went to the workers.

    So I would say feel free to hate all of them already.

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    • rainwall@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      25 million over about 250 employees, so maybe 100k each, although not likely to be evenly split.

      About in line with what happened when Minecraft sold to Microsoft. Shitty redpill notch makes 4 billion, decade long employees that made Minecraft into a succeas make 6 figures at best.

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• Apocalypteroid@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I would encourage everyone considering buying this game to not buy this game.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It got way more complicated than it was just a few months ago.

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    • badgermurphy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, but it’s complicated like an ant colony–incredibly complex and nuanced, but tiny, inconsequential, and easy to ignore.

      I got one whiff of that dumpster fire and thought, “You know what? I’m going to check out some of the near-infinite other entertainment options available to me in the Information Age and give that whole thing a miss.” I’m sure a significant portion of other people interested in the game came to a similar conclusion, which can’t be ideal for their sales goals.

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  • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have been a fan of Subnautica since before items had textures and they were still playing with terrain manipulation.

    I absolutely refuse to buy Subnautica 2. I will be pirating it.

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    • Drasglaf@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A shame, really, but this is the way. Subnautica was one of the best games of the past decade for me and I was really looking forward for this sequel, but I’m not willing to spend a cent on it after all this shitshow.

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  • Fafa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why? The developers get the money when sales reicht a certain threshhold, as far as I know it…

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’ll be paid either way. They make the sales, they earn the bonus. They don’t make the sales, they’ll probably be awarded the bonus plus punitive damages from the lawsuit they basicslly already won since it’s very apparent the publisher sabotaged the development of the game specifically to not have to pay the developers the bonus in theit contract.

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• a4ng3l@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How is Krafton removal from the steam page a bad thing? Unknown worlds is the OG owner so it should be an improvement in termes of their control over the game isn’t it?

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