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Imo, the part of this whole controversy that's really been danced around is how much of the disputed $250m bonus is developer bonus and how much is executive bonus. I would be very interested in more details around this breakdown and eligibility if anyone has seen it.

As far as I've seen, the only indicator that this was anything other than an executive bonus dispute was one executive claiming they were totally going to share it with the rest of the team after the shit went down and the story was in the press. Sorry if I find that claim less than reputable. What Krafton did was undeniably greedy and illegal, but how worked up am I supposed to get about executive payouts? It seems like the other employees weren't in the sale language at all, and there's a very real possibility they may end up getting larger bonuses now that the executives have resorted to using their development team as a tool to garner additional public sympathy.

Probably will end up buying this. I liked the first one but eventually switched to Planet Crafter which i actually enjoyed more. But still, this game is going to be good, you just know it.

And to think this game almost got cancelled because the CEO made a promise, got cold feet, and asked ChatGPT to weasel his ass out of it, and FOLLOWED THE PLAN, and LEFT RECEIPTS.

Rich people aren't smart for getting rich. They're incredibly fucking stupid as a baseline.

Steam review excerpt from Ulrich

--" Their EULA specifically calls out the following behavior and actions as not allowed and will result in the termination of your license:

• Using a VPN.
• Streaming the game.
• Making fan art.
• "Taking actions that go against social norms"
• Playing the game on more than one device without buying more than one license.
• Any action that "Tarnishes the reputation of Krafton"

They also mention that they:

• Reserve the right to "remote access the game" at any time, meaning they have backdoor access to your computer.
• Reserve the right to harvest your personal data, such as full legal name, email, physical address, phone number, gender, etc.
• Will pass that data on to third party providers, such as marketing agencies and cloud services
• Provide no guarantee that the data is protected or anonymized in any way (it includes your name and address so how could it be, anyway?) "--

Might want to read the eula for the game, otherwise you might lose access to it.

The three claimed, however, that Krafton had betrayed them by firing them right before delaying Subnautica 2, a move they allege was designed to deliberately prevent its Early Access release, and avoid it selling well enough to trigger a $250 million bonus for the development team.

Disgusting if true.

But it's in Early Access.. so I don't wanna see yet. I'll wait for full release

I have a soft spot for the first two, but that's mainly because I can play them on my phone and the controls actually aren't awful like most mobile games.

It's fine. It's just the first game with a shitty UE5 plaster on top and a slightly different story. Wish they'd improved upon the general depth of interaction with the world, but it's exactly the same as the other two.

Fuck this game. The CEO ties to fuck over employees and last year they announced shifting to "AI first" for gaming. Fuck Krafton and every game they make or buy.