>Korean PUBG publisher Krafton buys Unknown Worlds (Subnautica dev) for $500,000,000
>Orders Subnautica 2 developed with planned EA release
>years pass
>the 3 top execs of Unknown Worlds are abruptly fired early July 2025
>they then launch a lawsuit against Krafton claiming they were deliberately delaying EA in order to avoid paying them $225,000,000 bonus if the game met certain sales figures
>Krafton responded by saying the game was nowhere near EA readiness as the development had stalled
>Krafton claims they found out the 3 execs, who were supposed to be leading the active dev team, were absent from the project and spent most of their time working on personal side projects
>A leaked dev document shows the continuous decline of developmental scope since 2023, lending credence to the claim that development had slowed to a crawl without active leadership
>Unknown Worlds has now sued the 3 former execs for downloading up to 90,000 confidential company files shortly before leaving the company after they were terminated

I'm on the side of Krafton with this one. The former execs are woke liberals and it looks like they thought they could scam their publisher out of 225 million dollars. Krafton responding to their lawsuit by saying they have "resorted to litigation to demand a payday they haven't earned" is absolutely bang on. They thought they could relax and fuck around with personal projects and the team would do all the work, meet the bonus requirements after release due to the success of the 1st game, and they could sail off into the sunset as multimillionaires.

The Subnautica 2 situation is an absolute clusterfuck of back and forth info war and the "fans" on Reddit are trying to kill the game and get all the developers fired to get back at Krafton for firing 3 people on the basis of not even half-understood information.
What a dumpster fire.