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.
I just meant that there’s so many excellent games, old and new, everywhere you look, that it is easy to just walk past ones that seemed like they have anything even remotely distasteful about them.
They’ll be paid either way. They make the sales, they earn the bonus. They don’t make the sales, they’ll probably be awarded the bonus plus punitive damages from the lawsuit they basicslly already won since it’s very apparent the publisher sabotaged the development of the game specifically to not have to pay the developers the bonus in their contract.
The court is literally waiting to see what happens with the sales before deciding a verdict.
Not sure what’s going on now, since Unknown worlds don’t list krafton as publisher anymore. This article says that the Deal meant paying 2,87 Euro for every Euro starting at 64 million Euro turnover with a maximum of 230 million.
Anyways I’m all for support of the developers. I’ll get it if it’s fun and if not I’ll think about it.
A shame, really, but this is the way. Subnautica was one of the best games of the past decade for me and I was really looking forward to the sequel, but I’m not willing to spend a cent on it after all this shitshow.
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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.
But what if it is like subnautica 1 or 2 but with a new map? Then it would be fun.
That other ant colony on the other side of the sidewalk looks pretty good!
Not sure what you mean
I just meant that there’s so many excellent games, old and new, everywhere you look, that it is easy to just walk past ones that seemed like they have anything even remotely distasteful about them.
I hope I’m wrong, but Subnautica really stands alone in genre all to itself.
All the other survival games I’ve played have been annoying or too violent… And I really like the underwater setting.
So it’s really not true that there are other games that compare to Subnautica 1 and 2. Unless there are – I am open to recommendations.
Why? The developers get the money when sales reach a certain threshhold, as far as I know it…
They’ll be paid either way. They make the sales, they earn the bonus. They don’t make the sales, they’ll probably be awarded the bonus plus punitive damages from the lawsuit they basicslly already won since it’s very apparent the publisher sabotaged the development of the game specifically to not have to pay the developers the bonus in their contract.
The court is literally waiting to see what happens with the sales before deciding a verdict.
Not sure what’s going on now, since Unknown worlds don’t list krafton as publisher anymore. This article says that the Deal meant paying 2,87 Euro for every Euro starting at 64 million Euro turnover with a maximum of 230 million.
Anyways I’m all for support of the developers. I’ll get it if it’s fun and if not I’ll think about it.
I have been a fan of Subnautica since before items had textures and they were still playing with terrain manipulation.
I absolutely refuse to buy Subnautica 2. I will be pirating it.
A shame, really, but this is the way. Subnautica was one of the best games of the past decade for me and I was really looking forward to the sequel, but I’m not willing to spend a cent on it after all this shitshow.