Subnautica 2 Drama Ensues as Ex-Studio Heads Sue Publisher After Release Date Was Pushed Back to Reportedly Avoid Paying Bonuses

[Peter_Brosdahl]

An unexpected turn of events surrounding Subnautica 2's development has led to legal action involving the recently fired co-founders.

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[Grimlakin]

Oh wow.. Crack down achieve targets... then nefariou move to delay launch to avoid paying bonus.... sounds legit to me at first blush.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Just putting this here. At this point, I'm not sure who to believe.

Krafton confirms Subnautica 2 leak showing that the publisher wanted more content for the early access launch, leading to delay and leadership ouster

It's supporting evidence for Krafton's narrative, but still not definitive.

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[Ranulfo]

Yeah, normally I would go with publisher being bad given gaming industry history and I did. But having looked into the devs history and remembering stuff I'd forgotten about their Below Zero game's drama (I avoided most of the early access stuff and played at 1.0), I now put this drama at a 50/50 either side is guilty till more info comes out. Below Zero was quite the mess of a game and re-written and re-voiced near 1.0. That was my main complaint about the game, the disjointed two part story. The main premise for the main/player character was a side story that made little sense and could actually be mostly ignored to complete the game anyway.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Didn't know those details but was aware of some kind of controversy with Below Zero but I never played or read much about it. Honestly, I forgot all about it until reading up about this stuff.