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The founders of the Subnautica franchise have filed a lawsuit against Krafton after the parent company fired the top three leaders of Unknown Worlds, the maker of Subnautica, the undersea survival game that has more than 12 million players to date.
Those leaders were in a midst of developing Subnautica 2, but Krafton also announced it was delaying early access due to lack of progress. Then it removed them from control of the company. As shareholders, they’re suing for “Krafton’s desperate efforts to avoid paying the earnout, and its flagrant contractual breaches in pursuit of that goal,” the lawsuit said.
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