Krafton Subnautica 2 Devs claims the lost interest in the developing game

Crafton launched another shot Legal battle With former executives in SubNAUTICA 2 Studio Unknown Worlds, who filed a lawsuit last month, claiming that the South Korean publisher undermined the game’s issuance to avoid paying them a reward. In its response, Crafton claims that the three prosecutors, Ted Jel, Charlie Cleveland, and Max McGuer, “lost their interest in development SubNAUTICA 2“

The story that the Crafton’s lawyers in the deposit is that after selling unknown worlds to Krafton for $ 500 million and a sum of $ 250 million in profit bonuses, Cleveland and McGoire have mainly verified work to work SubNAUTICA 2 To focus on personal projects.

“In 2024 and 2025, Cleveland stated that” he no longer works in games, but (…) works on some films “, while” McGuire “started working on initiatives that exceed (the company) major development activities.”

They claim that without the leadership of Cleveland and McCoire, development on SubNAUTICA 2 He suffered to the extent that the delay in the early arrival of the game was necessary.

… With the end of the Carlout, the game was not anywhere near its planned scope. Indeed, in late March 2025, just two months before the main employees claim that the game was ready to issue the first early arrival (“EA), I noticed the development of SubNAUTICA 2 in unknown worlds that the first and second EA (planned for December 2025) will only be” about 12 % of our intended range 1.0 “, and it declined” at this price will be for 30 years. “