Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup

• mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Latest development makes it seem like Krafton just wanted to save the cash to plow into their lame AI venture.

  I mean honestly, when has a video game company actually been on the right side when things came to a head with the founders?

  “The termination notices of the founders gave one reason for their termination,” said Fortis, “and that was the supposed lack of readiness of Subanutica 2 for release. Krafton reiterated that basis for its actions repeatedly.”

  Fortis called it a “seismic shift in the case” and “a little bit bewildering”. This was also echoed by the judge, Lori W. Will, when the parties met for a ruling on the filed motions, saying: “Well, that’s something that we definitely need to get to the bottom of today, because that is precisely what was cited as the reason in the answer.”

  Krafton’s representatives were not clear about why this argument has been taken off the table, only that it has been, and that it’s no longer why they are saying the founders were terminated.

  Instead, Krafton is focusing on the argument that the founders “abandoned their posts” and “deceived” their employer. Causing more confusion is the accusation that the founders downloaded files and kept devices with confidential information on them. This only came to light after the termination, so its relevance has been questioned.

  pcgamer.com/…/the-subnautica-2-lawsuit-is-getting…

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• Gumbyyy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s been a ton of back and forth finger pointing but the more I hear about it (and other news about Krafton), the more my gut tells me that Krafton are the bad guys.

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  • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean it’s pretty obvious they are. The original reason Krafton gave for firing the founders was that Subnautica 2 was being pushed out before it was ready just so the founders could get their bonuses.

    Krafton has since dropped those arguments in the legal fillings to some nebulous shit like:

    “abandoned their posts” and “deceived” their employer."

    I mean come on. This isn’t even a both sides issue anymore.

    pcgamer.com/…/the-subnautica-2-lawsuit-is-getting…

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    • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The original reason Krafton gave for firing the founders was that Subnautica 2 was being pushed out before it was ready just so the founders could get their bonuses.

      Neither sides of that look good.

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      • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No, it’s pretty one-sided. They even have communications exchanges between Krafton’s CEO and their global ops head how to avoid paying out the bonus before firing them.

        “Krafton terminated the Founders and seized control of Unknown Worlds in order to avoid the earnout,” reads the group’s latest filing. “Smoking gun documents show that Krafton was looking for ways to ‘cancel the earn-out’ and that its secret ‘Project X’ was designed to either make a ‘Deal’ on the earnout or execute a “Take over.” When the Founders would not agree to Krafton’s demands related to the earnout, Krafton decided a ‘take over’ would be the ‘easier’ route.”

        kotaku.com/subnautica-2-krafton-lawsuit-chatgpt-2…

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