I would encourage everyone considering buying this game to not buy this game.
It got way more complicated than it was just a few months ago.
Yeah, but it’s complicated like an ant colony–incredibly complex and nuanced, but tiny, inconsequential, and easy to ignore.
I got one whiff of that dumpster fire and thought, “You know what? I’m going to check out some of the near-infinite other entertainment options available to me in the Information Age and give that whole thing a miss.” I’m sure a significant portion of other people interested in the game came to a similar conclusion, which can’t be ideal for their sales goals.
How is Krafton removal from the steam page a bad thing? Unknown worlds is the OG owner so it should be an improvement in termes of their control over the game isn’t it?
Gill doesn’t have to launch the game until September 15 to be eligible for the $250 million bonus at the center of the lawsuit.
Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier reported last year that, should Subnautica 2 meet the necessary revenue targets to trigger the bonus, a portion of it will be shared among some of Unknown Worlds’ staff.
I’m half-expecting the share given to employees to be a couple million tops and fans to turn on both sides, just to put the cherry on this crap sundae of a scandal.
The original deal was that 90% went to the three execs and 10% went to the workers.
So I would say feel free to hate all of them already.
25 million over about 250 employees, so maybe 100k each, although not likely to be evenly split.
About in line with what happened when Minecraft sold to Microsoft. Shitty redpill notch makes 4 billion, decade long employees that made Minecraft into a succeas make 6 figures at best.
I would not turn it down of course, but the imbalance does chafe.
And poor Zach of Infiniminer made $0
