The dispute about the Subnautet 2 continues, the court at the first stage was fulfilled by the authors

The court rejected the requirements of the South Korean publishing house Krafton In a dispute with Charlie Cleveland, Ted Gill and Max McGir, the former head of the studio Unknown worldsThe company demanded a forensic verification of evidence and a data storage team. Both steps abandoned the court on the grounds that they are not needed.

“Inorganized defense Krafton raises more questions than answers,” the authors say Subnautiki 2 And they talk about a change in the testimony of the publisher. Initially, Krafton justified the release of the developers without fulfilling his duties, then he said in court that Cleveland, Jill and McGuire threatened to “release the game without support, marketing, promotion or distribution from Krafton”. Currently, three accuse tens of thousands of components and emails of the company on their own equipment.

“Building files was not illegal, and Krafton claims that he learned about this only after the release of the founders [studia]The file downloading files cannot be a real reason for the termination of employment, ”the counterparty says.

The dispute about Krafton and former bosses of unknown worlds lasted since the beginning of July. Krafton claims that the authors neglected the development of Subnautica 2, and the game was not ready to release in the early access, which also had to suspend the name for the next year. According to the developers, the main goal of the publisher was to avoid the payment of a bonus in the total amount of $ 250 million, and therefore the company was supposed to sabotage the development of the game.

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