Krafton lost the case against Subnautica 2 director and ex-CEO Ted Gill. The court orders the publisher to re-establish roles of the founders and give Ted full control over the Unknown Worlds studio and the game.
The case was rather confusing from both sides, but the judge sided with the CEO as his arguments were more consistent and reliable. The seizure of the company and termination of rights and roles of founders were done without legal grounds.
The case is not over though, they will have to settle next steps and compensations. But even now the judge extended the term for the game to earn the required sum for founders to get bonuses.
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The case was rather confusing from both sides, but the judge sided with the CEO as his arguments were more consistent and reliable. The seizure of the company and termination of rights and roles of founders were done without legal grounds.
The case is not over though, they will have to settle next steps and compensations. But even now the judge extended the term for the game to earn the required sum for founders to get bonuses.
#Krafton@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV
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Krafton lost the case against Subnautica 2 director and ex-CEO Ted Gill. The court orders the publisher to re-establish roles of the founders and give Ted full control over the Unknown Worlds studio and the game. The case was rather confusing from both sides…
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By the way, Hanwha is basically Samsung military branch that was rebranded in 2015 to avoid issues for Samsung. But due to very odd oligarchy in Korea, they are all related anyway.
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By the way, Hanwha is basically Samsung military branch that was rebranded in 2015 to avoid issues for Samsung. But due to very odd oligarchy in Korea, they are all related anyway.
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#WTF@GameDEV
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Krafton lost the case against Subnautica 2 director and ex-CEO Ted Gill. The court orders the publisher to re-establish roles of the founders and give Ted full control over the Unknown Worlds studio and the game. The case was rather confusing from both sides…
Since Krafton lost the case against the founders of Unknown Worlds, they were also removed from Steam page of the game.
It's not yet clear how it unfolds, Krafton still owns Unknown Worlds to a degree. But they may have been locked out from any control over the game.
Before the company made a deal that included a huge royalties for the studio founders if Subnautica 2 meets the quota.
To prevent this from happening, Changhan Kim, the CEO of Krafton rejected his own lawyers and listened to Chat GPT instead that helped him to file a claim, took the studio from founders, and then lose miserably in court.
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It's not yet clear how it unfolds, Krafton still owns Unknown Worlds to a degree. But they may have been locked out from any control over the game.
Before the company made a deal that included a huge royalties for the studio founders if Subnautica 2 meets the quota.
To prevent this from happening, Changhan Kim, the CEO of Krafton rejected his own lawyers and listened to Chat GPT instead that helped him to file a claim, took the studio from founders, and then lose miserably in court.
#Krafton@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV
#Subnautica@GameDEV
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Subnautica 2 just got out and already sold over a million copies 😎
After all these years and the battle against unhinged Krafton publishing, the game is finally out and is indeed a huge success.
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After all these years and the battle against unhinged Krafton publishing, the game is finally out and is indeed a huge success.
#Subnautica@GameDEV
#Survival@GameDEV
#Krafton@GameDEV
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Subnautica 2 just got out and already sold over a million copies 😎 After all these years and the battle against unhinged Krafton publishing, the game is finally out and is indeed a huge success. #Subnautica@GameDEV #Survival@GameDEV #Krafton@GameDEV
Over 2 million copies sold 12 hours after the release and the game reached 467K CCU on Steam.
Krafton is seemingly still a publisher but now they will have to pay founders $200m since the sequel will earn the desired sum.
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Krafton is seemingly still a publisher but now they will have to pay founders $200m since the sequel will earn the desired sum.
#Subnautica@GameDEV
#Survival@GameDEV
#Krafton@GameDEV
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