Krafton issued a response to a recent lawsuit submitted by former subnautica 2 guides, offering the overthrow of developers’ claims and claiming that “they resorted to the dispute for the demand for a multi -million payment he did not earn.”
This is a response to a legal complaint lodged by the former general director of the unknown world, Ted Gill and colleague Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire last month. In it, previous cables claimed that Krafton tried to make it difficult to develop Subnautica 2, delay the game, and eventually release them from their roles to stop them and other employees from collecting a bonus of $ 250 million, which would start if early access to the game was published this year and achieve certain milestones.
In his answerKrafton claims that the game has been planned for the release of Q1 2024. However, “Cleveland and McGuire abandoned their roles as a game director in the entire studio and technical director to focus on their personal passion projects and completely give up games for unknown worlds. And the guill who remained focus on using their operational control to maximize the paid payment, not develop a successful game. “
Krafton claims that by 2023, the Director for the Development of the Unknown World commented that the founders were “checked”, and in particular Cleveland publicly stated that he had abandoned video games to continue creating movies. The release date of Subnautica fell until 2024, and then in 2025. “Internal assessment of the first game in the possibility in March 2024 explained that the team did not fulfill the promise of developing enough fresh content. But instead of raising the sleeves and making the promised game, the key employees blamed others and converted the team.” Krafton also claims that with time Leadi still reduce the scope of the game.
The answer says that by spring 2025, Krafton tried to stop them from releasing the game, saying that he was not ready. However, Krafton claims that potential customers tried to free them anyway to get maximum earnings.
Exception of key employees for the immediate release of the game was extremely driven by their own interest in obtaining the extraction. At every step, during the development of the key employees, the laser was focused on avoiding a “schedule that did not set a collection of possibilities” and planning the edition to maximize the payment. Conversations in the period after taking over explain key employees [sic] Focused on their payments, not the game. Already in 2022, an employee who was to receive a part of the lifting stated that despite significant delays in the game he was confident ” [Gill] will be come up with a program to get this result. ” [emphasis Krafton’s]
The answer gives answers to each claim in the lawsuit, paragraph according to the paragraph. Krafton asks the Tribunal to rule in its favor, deny the claims of the founders of relief and costs of granting Krafton, including lawyer fees.
This saga began in July, when Krafton apparently unexpectedly announced that he would replace the advantage of unknown worlds over a former distance, Steve Papoutis. In the following weeks there were reports regarding the premiere of $ 250 million of the promised personnel among the questions whether this payment will be honored. While Leady Subnautica claimed in various statements and in their trial that Krafton tried to delay Subnautica 2 and eventually released them to avoid paying them a bonus, Krafton accused them of neglecting their duties, saying that Subnautica 2 was not ready to be launched. This final claim remains in the air, with Document leakage Since the time verified by Krafton confirming that unknown worlds received feedback from the publisher, that the game was not ready to launch early access. But Report with Bloomberg He suggests that it may not be completely true.
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