You know that personal film project they claimed one of the founders was distracted by? It was a Subnautica film they asked him to make.
You know that personal film project they claimed one of the founders was distracted by? It was a Subnautica film they asked him to make.
““This doesn’t sound plausible. Are they really going to ruin their investment and effectively kill the company to supposedly save a quarter of a billion”
You should see the documentary about the making of Lego Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG55COe_f8I
A wildly succesful game, so what did the publisher do after having released a wildly succesful game and having the team that made it under their wings? Fire them all and try to weasel out of the promised bonuses.
It was standard practice 30 years ago, and it still is…
Standard practice has been to fuck over the developers after release. They haven’t released Subnautica 2 yet. They’re screwing the developers over before they’ve cashed out the game. That’s the part that made it implausible in my mind.
It’s ready for prerelease it seems, and very playable. Sounds like they already have what they need. They’re just taking a little headstart :p
We don’t know the exact state of the game but what we know is that it’s early access ready. If previous Unknown world games are of any indication it’s still 2 years away from final release. They might make some money back with early access but it will be negatively reviewed under the pretense that it will not be properly finished. The release is already guaranteed to take a financial hit.