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Chang-han denied using ChatGPT.

The article just points out that the founders accused the CEO of using ChatGPT to find a way out of the layout and the CRI denied it. There's no evidence at all, just hearsay.

I'm waiting for the lawsuit to progress to make a judgement. And I'm waiting for Subnautica 2 to release and get reviews before making s purchasing decision. Heck, I usually wait a couple of years to buy games anyways.

I normally would side with the founders over the business executives, but the idea that Subnautica 2 was finished, and is of a quality similar to or better than the first game, and Krafton is just sitting on instead of releasing it... That seems really dumb. Bonuses are typically structured as a percentage of profit. The whole point of bonuses is to align the interests of employees with the employer. Krafton should WANT the game to release and sell well enough to hit the bonus incentives.

This is a really weird situation and I can't remember seeing anything like this in the industry before. Usually it's the opposite- the publisher and business executives pushing the developers and creative people to release things too early and unfinished. Because that's how the incentives are usually aligned.

It's also worth giving credit to Krafton for things like buying Tango Softworks after it closed and trying to hire back as many former employees as they could. They are removing Denuvo from Hi-Fi Rush, but they are adding in their own DRM (not sure if it will have an online component or not).

They're a corporation and no one's friend, but Krafton does seem to understand that doing what's right for consumers and employees can often be good for their own bottom line long-term. They do not yet have an established history of making short-term decisions that screw over employees and customers to chase quarterly profit numbers like other publisher have. Yet.