>30% of a story-based exploration game released in early access?>BUY BUY BUY I NEED TO EXPERIENCE AN UNFINISHED PRODUCT AND RUIN THE PACING FOR MYSELF NOOOOW NEW THING NEW THING NEW THING
>>738983581why can't you be a wait chad and wait for it to be finished and patched and DLCed there's like a billion game out there to play
>>738983581Why do you care what other people do with their money? Just buy it on official launch then retard
>>738983581I don't understand, they didn't get a bonus because CEO said the game is not ready. They won the case, but the game is not ready
>>738983665oh but it is ready**for early access (alpha)
>>738983665This, riddle me this
>>738983665They only won because the publisher used AI for the court documents or something lmaoOnly the scammers won. Everyone else lost.
>>738983581nomies are retard just wait a year for full release
>>738983665>they didn't get a bonus because CEO said the game is not ready.yes its not ready because the CEO stole designated funds and redirected it to other hobby projects while stalling sub2
>>738983661I wanted to play with my friend when it has full release but now he's just completely ruining the shared experience of discovery by sneak-peeking
>>738983665its fucking funny how one of the ceos literally left the company to make a chirstmas movie (with hilarious ai generated posters) and openly bragged about becoming a movie producer while another ceo made moobreaker instead of them both working on sub2 and krafton still lost.
>>738983581Wasn't there some controversy with the former developer being fired or something? How did it get so popular despite that? People talked about how evil the company was or somethingNot that I give a shit, never played any of their games. Just curious
>>738983581AAAAAAA PEOPLE ARE NOT EXPIRIECING THE GAME THE SAME WAY AS I AM SAVE ME LOVECRAFT'S CATcome on man
>>738985057All I know is that the game before this one sucked
>>738983665>they didn't get a bonus because CEO said the game is not readyfor early access. You left out that pretty major qualifier. The milestone that their bonuses hinged upon was being ready for early access.
Sorry but I need good underwater games like a junkie needs drugs. Besides, I'm satisfied with what I got for the relatively low asking price, and I get to keep coming back to it as more and more content gets added
>>738985057tl;dr>krafton buys unknown worlds (UW), developer of subnautica>promises a big $250 million bonus cheque to UW if subnautica 2 releases in ea before mid 2026>internal development targets all say they'll manage to reach ea and target sales easily>krafton CEO unhappy, consider the big bonus cheque was actually a bad decision>try to negociate out of it, UW tells him to get stuffed>krafton CEO desperate, asks chatgpt for a plan to get out of bonus cheque, despite objections from legal dept., krafton senior managers and chatgpt itself>smear campaign, locks UW from their steam page, and make announcement that subnautica 2 won't be ready for ea for made up reasons and fires UW lead team>lawsuit>judge sees all the evidence and tells krafton CEO to fuck off>reinstates the UW lead guy, grant a months long extension on the bonus cheque targets>still waiting on judgement for additional damages that krafton will have to pay to UW
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>>738983581It took just over 3 years for Subnautica 1 to reach 1.0. How long do you think this one will take?
>>738986240About treefiddy.
>>738983581please tell m they didn't make this a narrative game like the ice one instead of exploration focused
>>738985160Who gives a shit shlomo, this is clearly another griftLmao @ the few cuck devs still trying to put effort into this slop
>>738983665All this drama with Crafton and bonuses is just a marketing ploy.>yeah, buy our game NOW(available in early access) to stick it up to the publisher, goy!
>>738984097closethe ceo of the publisher used AI to generate an epic plan to steal all the money and fire everyone without bonuses
I posted this comment on a tiktok back in april and they called me stupid
>>738986726You are indeed stupid.
>>738984136See you in three years when it's finished.
>>738986726go back zoomer
>>738986797>>738986964how am I wrong? enjoy your merely 1 hour long of campaign
>>738987660How is that killing the game? If you play solely for the story, you simply don't get the game.
>>738987660>>738986726turbo retard alert
>Supposedly been in development for years>Only 30% doneIs EA going to last like 3 years or whatHow much content did Subnautica 1 and Below Zero release in EA with?
>>738987892its been in development for 8 fucking years and its still not donestarting to feel like the bonus really isnt deserved after all
>>738983581>caring about story in a survivalcrafter friendslop game
>>738986726"A game feature that was asked by the audience be implemented to the game will kill it"Yeah 100%. Gamers are not developers and they're also a pretty low IQ demographic. Playerbases have been ruining games by asking for retarded shit since the beginning of the internet (ever heard of WoW ?).
>>738987947>Kim ch still seething
>>738983581I bought the original and it was good, played a little bit every update and got to experience the "VOXELS ARE THE FUTURE" version before they disabled and then baked it. No regrets.Then i got Below Zero and it was so terrible and screamed "WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE APPEAL OF THE ORIGINAL WAS" from the very first release, so i didn't even bother to check up the second update. Massive regrets and why im ignoring 2.
>>738987801the sandbox elements are part of the campaign, its the core of the game's narrative to have enough places to explore, things to unlock and farm, it all ties together, multiplayer is just a greedy gimmick to sell, no one ever asked for it, it adds nothing to the value of the game, it just takes away of how much we could've had in EA if it wasnt for so much development allocation to be pushed towards it.
>>738983581>all the bullshit surrounding Krafton and Subnautica 2>the EULA>early access with barely any content>another Subnautica after the garbage that was Below ZeroYeah, that is a lot of red flags.
>>738988836nah SN2 is really good its just taking too long 8 years + up to 4 more in EA is insane
>>738989008>8 yearsWhat's up with retards repeating this obvious lie?
>>738989008SN2 is in development since 2022 retardbro
What would ChatGPT do in this situation?
>>738989640Tell you it's a retarded idea but fold when you insist that it's actually a great idea.
>>738986726Go back
>>738988227Who?
>>738990780Krafton ceo.
>devs appeal to the "PLZ ADD MULTIPLAYER" crowdSo tiring
The content is so limited that you could actually see it as a demo.A demo for 30 bucks and the full version of the game coming in 3 years though.
>>738986180Ohh, so it's cool to buy the game then
>>738991634Maybe? I mean it's not like the judicial saga will make it into a game genre you instantly like if you didn't care for it before.
>>738986180I'm glad Last Epoch decided to sell out to these guys, I was worried there for a second that PoE would have competition and might have to improve
>>738986726>le (((optional)))every time
>>738991953To be fair krafton might be on the way down with shit like that. I'm sure a lot of studio heads have been reconsidering acquisition offers from krafton.
>>738986180>internal development targets all say they'll manage to reach eaNo it didn't.They missed most, if not all, milestones and the initial complaint was that releasing into EA in 2025 would be a disaster for long term growth as they basically had nothing.Seeing the state of the EA now in 2026, a whole year late, it would appear krafton was correct in this assessment.
>>738993034That's krafton's version. The judge saw the evidence and concluded differently.>N. The Milestone Review>In May 2025, the parties scheduled a milestone review meeting. For Unknown Worlds, this was an opportunity to coordinate with Krafton on marketing and publishing logistics for the upcoming launch. Krafton’s finance team ran earnout projections to prepare for the meeting. Their models predicted that a successful August 2025 early access launch of Subnautica 2, with “over 1.67 millioncopies sold by Q4 2025,” would generate significant revenue and “trigger [the] earnout.” A “Financial Planning Base” case scenario indicated a $191.8 million total earnout payment, and a best-case scenario indicated a $242.2 million payment.https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=392880Pages 29-30.
>>738983581Fuck Subnautica
>>738993639The estimation is based on engagement and wishlists on youtube and steam. Not on what is actually in the game.Seeing as the EA is a whole year delayed and it only has 4 hours of content in it one can safely conclude that there's merit to the claim that milestones were missed.
>>738994839>A week later, the planned milestone review meeting went forward. Gallegos showed Krafton executives the latest game build, which showed great progress. Gill and Cleveland advocated for support for the planned August 14 release. But some Krafton executives claimed the game was “not ready” for release, citing a lack of “freshness” and “volume.” Krafton’s Oliveira told a colleague he was “starting to think . . . that people are trying to create excuses to not pay the earn outs.”Kim lost, deal with it.
>>738994990Actually the players lost.
>Underwater Autism Simulator
>>738995182Krafton's fault.
>>738994990cope and seethe you reddit faggot. SN2 is blatantly unfinished despite development hell and the faggots in charge stole funding for it to funnel it on their pet projects. Publisher is 100% in the right here
>>738995481Feel free to read the whole thing instead of being an unabashed faggot.>>738993639>https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=392880
