6d ago

Krafton Delays ‘Subnautica 2’ Game Ahead of $250 Million Payout

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Jason Schreier: BREAKING: Krafton has delayed the highly anticipated game Subnautica 2 to 2026, potentially costing the development team a $250 million bonus.

The studio's leadership had wanted to release the game this year but were ousted by Krafton last week.

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Similar shit happened when they were PUBG Corporation. Fuck these lying assholes. Player Unknown was a smart, capable dude, and they exiled him to a remote office because he got pissed at the CEO for over-monetizing things in a way that cost them players.
When they released the battle pass while the game was retail, all of the non-Korean employees nearly revolted. It wasn't smart, and it was a money grab on the players. When the team lead of market research told the product manager that the feature was a bad idea and would lose them all their Western players, the product manager got him demoted and moved to another team.
When the numbers didn't look good, the data analysts were freaking out because they couldn't deliver bad news up the chain of command, even if it was accurate.
When they acquired Mad Glory, they promised that the dev team would still be contracted to other game companies to build APIs and tools for them, keeping the game industry tooling ecosystem healthy (think op.gg). When PUBG Corporation acquired them, the company canceled their contract with Bethesda for the API they were in the middle of building and forbade them from working with other companies.
Fuck Bluehole. Fuck PUBG Corporation. Fuck Krafton. Fuck game studios in Korea. Don't play Korean games. Kpop and cosmetics and whatever are chill. Don't play Korean games. Korean game companies are fucking cancer.
Don't buy Subnautica 2. The Subnautica franchise died when Krafton became the publisher.
These absolute dipshit MBAs could've made so much goddamn money if they just let the original team make the game they want to make.
- Any business executive who graduated after 1993 can't run a business sustainably...all they know is line go up, microtransactions, layoffs, give themself bonus, buzzwords & lie.
  
  Imagine living up to your username like that.
This game is screwed, calling it now.
- Thirty seconds of oxygen left, please enter credit card information to refill tanks.
  
  Detecting multiple executive class lifeforms in the game. Are you certain whatever you're paying is worth it?
According to the article the old leadership wanted to share the bonus with the whole development team of around 100 people. I don't think the motivation of the team will be great now that the publisher pushed the bonus in unreachable distance. Fucking assholes can't even stand by their own promises.
- $2.5 million per person. They can't afford that, they need their slaves. I hope whole dev team publishes game source code on torrent and resigns.
Chunk of the founders ousted and a dev team resentful about getting screwed. Think we got ourselves another Concord on our hands.
- One of the best robot chicken scenes.
  I was in tears the first time I saw it
Can't wait for the release of Underwatica.
Seeing how publisher buying company and fucked their employees, now i'm super glad Hoopo sell only the IP to Gearbox, and not the whole company. Unknown Worlds might as well become a f2p company now, and my interest had plunged below zero.
Odds that Ted Gill, Charlie Cleveland, and Max McGuire, previous leadership at Krafton saw that well earned bonus and just thought, "yoink"?
Really quite booba of them
There's a petition going around now to try to "Save Subnautica".
It's at least worth a shot: https://www.change.org/p/save-subnautica

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