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The CEO got punished for it, dude. Let go. The game is only alive because the employees fought the dipshit tooth and nail at every turn and he got shafted. Now he owes all the employees 250 million.
How many years did he get?
Lost full rights of any managerial ability with subnautica 2 & reinstated the old CEO & required to pay the bonus out if sale targets are hit and the deadline was extended to September/w the ability to delay the deadline further to march 2027 at the choice of Unknown World.
That's also ignoring monetary damages and punishment for it which is phase two of the lawsuit and currently in the courts still.
I doubt jail time will be done(nor should it really as this is all monetary issues) but, punishment for the blatent breakage of the EPA terms is likely nowhere near over for krafton.
He lost his job and will soon need to pay 250 mil. Even if you think that's a light punishment, anything in that vein is too much for their fragile asses.
caveat: the game still has to sell at least 3M copies for the devs to get the $250M
They sold 2M copies in the first 12h, I think they'll hit that target.
The CEO is a billionaire that will pay his employees only if it sells a certain amount. It's a slap on the wrist. Doesn't change the fact he tried it and has shifted the entire company to AI first.
Stop sucking CEO dick.
How am I glazing him with this post? The game sold 2 million copies in the first 12 hours, their goal is 3 million. I think they're close to hitting it. This is literally the only time a CEO suffered consequences for being an evil piece of shit.