A battle in Krafton between three former Subnatika 2 developers and their publishers intensified over the weekend, after an internal document appeared online, it was shown how the scope of survival game during development has decreased. The source of this document is unknown. In fact, a lot of facts about the document are unknown. Nevertheless, Crafton has jumped on the occasion of confirming his authenticity.
For those new people for the play, Sabannatika is one of the most comfortable sports on 2 steam. A few weeks ago, three senior management people in the studio unknown world were thrown out and replaced by the head of another crafton -owned studio. Three dismissed developers were co-founder of Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuer with CEO Ted Gill. No clarification was given, but Cleveland later revealed that he disagreed with the publisher whether the game was ready to release. He said that Subnatika 2 was ready for early access. Crafton did not agree.
Then a report from Bloomberg revealed the Levithan in the room: a $ 250 million payment that would receive the employees of the unknown world if a released game sold sufficient copies until the end of 2025. After the leadership coup, Crafton announced that he would delay the game by 2026, making this “earner” impossible. Fire managers then filed a case against Crafton, and Crafton in turn issued a statement that caused negligence on the managers. The whole thing is very dirty.
This was messed up at the end of this week. On Friday, there were two slides from a presentation of unknown length. Reddit posted By an unknown party. Slides show how the scope of sports characteristics decreased over a period of two years. It claims that the game for release was considered “due to the lack of polish levels”.
“Compared to originally employed EA launch specifications,” a line, “the amount of current target material is low or adjusted in various elements such as biomes, fauna, equipment/progress and features. Due to a difference between the current status and the amount of material received during the initial launch planning, it is necessary to release the release timeline and the roadmap again.”
It is not uncommon for the game that there are features stripped during development, but it is an exact point on which craftton and removed developers disagree. Crafton confirmed the authenticity of the presentation in a statement to RPS and several other press outlets.
“Documents that have been moving on social media and reported by various outlets are actually part of an internal milestone review held as part of the Sabnutica 2 project,” The statement is written in the statement, adding that milestone reviews, “All projects” are regularly organized in collaboration with the creative studios of Crafton.
“Given these circumstances, Crafton has determined that transparent communication is necessary and selected to confirm the authenticity of the document. Krafton believes that reducing speculation and ensure accurate communication with the players should take prejudice.”
For all Crafton of transparency, we have a stunning amount of information No Learn about this document. The document is incomplete. When it was written, there is no date or timestamp to show it. There is no attention to show who has written it basically. It does not show who is the recipient of the document (ie. It was sent to the unknown world, or was it written to be shared between the parties within Crafts?). The identity of the person or individuals posing the document is not known: it comes from the Reddit account “Complet_Bread_4924”, who has not made any other posts or comments.
What we can say is that Krafton stands to benefit from its appearance, as it supports his side of the story about the delay of Sabantika 2. He confirmed that slides are authentic in their statement – a practice itself that is rare for companies when talking about leaks. Given this unusual development, and speculation that can increase it, we have asked Crafton, through their PR, many questions about the origin of the document.
We have asked Crafton to confirm or deny that they are sources of this leakage. We also asked on which date the document was written between other questions. He has so far replied us by supporting the press release quoted above. We will tell you if they come back to us with some more solids.
The game media is roughly trying to understand the facts about the story and the story about the story. Crafton has not been particularly helpful. Publishers say that under circumstances, “transparent communication is necessary”. However, he has only chosen to show a small piece of internal discussion around the game, inviting the audience and the media to make more decisions and speculation. Jumping on this suggests that they believe that slides will help them forward their version of events.
For the excluded developers, they have firmly withdrawing in lawyer mode and there is no doubt in reducing the possibility of victory against corporate legends. Last week, Cleveland said Cleveland said, “A multi-billion dollar company was certainly not in my bucket list to sue a painful, public and possibly popular manner.” “But it needs to be made right.”
So what do we take away from all this? The authenticity of the slides seems to be different from the Kleveland, McGuer and Krafton directed in Gill, like another angry volley. Crafton will undoubtedly avoid a long legal dispute about the game, especially considering the payment of $ 250 million to be disputed. Is it enough to scare the noise loudly that the developers are yet to be seen.
