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Jason Schreier: BREAKING: Krafton has delayed the highly anticipated game Subnautica 2 to 2026, potentially costing the development team a $250 million bonus.

The studio's leadership had wanted to release the game this year but were ousted by Krafton last week.

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[–] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This game is screwed, calling it now.

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  • [–] 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    These absolute dipshit MBAs could've made so much goddamn money if they just let the original team make the game they want to make.

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Any business executive who graduated after 1993 can't run a business sustainably...all they know is line go up, microtransactions, layoffs, give themself bonus, buzzwords & lie.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Can't wait for the release of Underwatica.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Similar shit happened when they were PUBG Corporation. Fuck these lying assholes. Player Unknown was a smart, capable dude, and they exiled him to a remote office because he got pissed at the CEO for over-monetizing things in a way that cost them players.

    When they released the battle pass while the game was retail, all of the non-Korean employees nearly revolted. It wasn't smart, and it was a money grab on the players. When the team lead of market research told the product manager that the feature was a bad idea and would lose them all their Western players, the product manager got him demoted and moved to another team.

    When the numbers didn't look good, the data analysts were freaking out because they couldn't deliver bad news up the chain of command, even if it was accurate.

    When they acquired Mad Glory, they promised that the dev team would still be contracted to other game companies to build APIs and tools for them, keeping the game industry tooling ecosystem healthy (think op.gg). When PUBG Corporation acquired them, the company canceled their contract with Bethesda for the API they were in the middle of building and forbade them from working with other companies.

    Fuck Bluehole. Fuck PUBG Corporation. Fuck Krafton. Fuck game studios in Korea. Don't play Korean games. Kpop and cosmetics and whatever are chill. Don't play Korean games. Korean game companies are fucking cancer.

    Don't buy Subnautica 2. The Subnautica franchise died when Krafton became the publisher.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Seeing how publisher buying company and fucked their employees, now i'm super glad Hoopo sell only the IP to Gearbox, and not the whole company. Unknown Worlds might as well become a f2p company now, and my interest had plunged below zero.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Odds that Ted Gill, Charlie Cleveland, and Max McGuire, previous leadership at Krafton saw that well earned bonus and just thought, "yoink"?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    There's a petition going around now to try to "Save Subnautica".

    It's at least worth a shot: https://www.change.org/p/save-subnautica

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Really quite booba of them

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