Great. An upper management restructuring. Capitalism does it's thing again. Subnautica 2 will be a shitty cash grab.

At least we had the first one.

Oh good now maybe the Subnautica developers can go independent to make a spiritual successor that isn't called Subnautica and isn't garbage.

In their place, Striking Distance Studios CEO Steve Papoutsis (who has a major role in the development of The Callisto Protocol) has been appointed as Unknown Worlds CEO.

I can smell the mediocrity from here.

Does this mean in 6 years we’ll get “BelowTheWatermica Dos” by a new studio, and it will be a far better spiritual sequel?

It’s happened only a few times when a publisher cans the developers.

Not enough micro transactions or live service elements.

Ah yes the song of our times: concerning leadership changes.

One reason Subnautica came out better through the years was the relationship built between the developers and players (beta testers?) by relying on transparency and active feedback. Subnautica was a big mess during the first iterations, and a lot changed and improved thanks to this collaboration IMO.

I remember when they explained that the game won't have weapons and I scratched my head as I wanted to play an undersea Natural Selection game. I was wrong then, and I hope we're all wrong and a better game (or at least similar one) comes out of this.

Ffs one of the few games I was actively but patiently excited for, pretty much down the drain. I can only hope they make their own studio with blackjack and hookers

Welp. That's that for that.

Not gamedev but other software, going through the exact same thing (new, external CEO). Guess the axeman cometh for us all eventually.

aw man i was HYPED for subnautica 2. loved the first game and below zero but now I'm worried

I'll wait for more info,... but from now on I'm approaching SN2 with extreme caution

Unknown Worlds was already dead anyway.

The team had already lost any chance of recreating the greatness of the first game when their sound designer made unbelievably stupid comments on social media, leaving the company no choice but to fire him.

This is very sad because I loved their stuff ever since the Natural Selection Half-life mod.

Maybe it isn't such a bad news. To get ppl hooked on any paid services, they need a good product first.

They can get lost with anything like Kerbal 2. That is if they relese something in pre-alpha state and ask $40 for it.

I mean I wasn't planning on getting sub 2 after the shitshow that was below zero, the studio is clear they didn't understand what caused the magic in the first game, and failed at delivery in the second one.

Below Zero wasn't exactly great, though.