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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Just gonna copy paste my comment on a related post...

Similar shit happened when they were PUBG Corporation. Fuck these lying assholes. Player Unknown was a smart, capable dude, and they exiled him to a remote office because he got pissed at the CEO for over-monetizing things in a way that cost them players.

When they released the battle pass while the game was retail, all of the non-Korean employees nearly revolted. It wasn't smart, and it was a money grab on the players. When the team lead of market research told the product manager that the feature was a bad idea and would lose them all their Western players, the product manager got him demoted and moved to another team.

When the numbers didn't look good, the data analysts were freaking out because they couldn't deliver bad news up the chain of command, even if it was accurate.

When they acquired Mad Glory, they promised that the dev team would still be contracted to other game companies to build APIs and tools for them, keeping the game industry tooling ecosystem healthy (think op.gg). When PUBG Corporation acquired them, the company canceled their contract with Bethesda for the API they were in the middle of building and forbade them from working with other companies.

Fuck Bluehole. Fuck PUBG Corporation. Fuck Krafton. Fuck game studios in Korea. Don't play Korean games. Kpop and cosmetics and whatever are chill. Don't play Korean games. Korean game companies are fucking cancer.

Don't buy Subnautica 2. The Subnautica franchise died when Krafton became the publisher.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Probably would not add kpop to the list of chill. That industry is rife with abuse like slave contracts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Well, you can't deny that whatever are still chill, at least. That's not nothing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

jokes on them, i already pirate their games ☕

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Natural Selection and then Natural Selection 2 - no games or communities like it. Before there time both of them and very much under appreciated. Felt like NS2 never really found it's rhythm but Unknown World kept it going longer than most games.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago

Well this just wrecked my evening.

But this is an ongoing, recurring story. Thief 2014 was a mockery of the original titles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I feel like I learn more about what I shouldn't play then what games I should play when I am on here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

But can I still buy the OG subnautica?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I remember Flayra from Natural Selection, a half-life mod twenty years ago. I remember him making appeals for investors/donations to keep Unknown Worlds afloat (or maybe just launch it as a company. I recall a video he posted where he showed us his tiny apartment and the milk in his fridge.)

Then Subnautica came out years later and I thought 'Well I'll be damned.'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Were you on the NS forums? I went by "Scythe" back in those days.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

Why can't the OG devs just opensource the code out of spite. Would be a big middle-finger

[–] [email protected] 69 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Pop it in your calendars? Maybe I'm using calendars wrong, but mine aren't filled with things I should avoid doing. But, I'm willing to learn. What date should I put "Don't Buy Subnautica 2" on?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Everyday up until it releases

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Shat about after it releases? How will I know to keep not buying it?

[–] HugeNerd 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Shat about after it releases?

Sure, but maybe not in public?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

It's not coming out until 2026. It's probably unhealthy to hold it in that long.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (9 children)

I will support this by continuing to be apathetic toward (and in fact ignorant of) the game known as Subnautica 2.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago

You should get a publisher if:

You want to make one game then get fired

You want your work to be bastardized by the publisher in the future

You want countless hours of overtime/crunch and no compensation

You want to be another disposable cog in the machine

If that doesn't sound like something you want, self-publish.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Nooooooooooooooo I was literally just talking about being excited for this game.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Pirate all Krafton games.

Edit. Apparently there's more to the story.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

Publishers are cancer. Self publish whenever possible !

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

It's not so black and white, Clair Obscur : Expédition 33 has that level of quality and polish because the team behind it was able to find a publisher to finance it. Everything has nuance, we got shafted on subnautica 2 but we had other great games, some self published, some not

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

They did all this because they know that the vast majority of the playerbase will never hear about this, and many of those that do will either forget, or simply not care enough to boycott the game. We're in an age of apathy across the board, with so much bad press that any given scandal just fades into the background noise.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 14 hours ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 13 hours ago

Best comment. Trust the publisher bro !

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[–] [email protected] 272 points 19 hours ago (21 children)

It's a canon event for any game company that achieves moderate success

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (7 children)

I am also boycotting Microsoft and every product from companies owned by them.

Sure, that doesn't leave a lot of games I can buy, but hey, Indie games are often the best games. Also I have a backlog so huge there will probably be peace in the middle east before I'm through with it.

Besides if there is a game I really want to play, I hear there arrrrr still ways to do so without supporting genocide.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 15 hours ago (19 children)

Linux gaming is really hot right now. Out of my 575 games on steam I can play 568 of them.

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