{"id":37807,"date":"2026-03-20T11:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37807"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:04:37","slug":"reinstated-subnautica-2-dev-says-kraftons-release-date-announcement-was-potentially-damaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37807","title":{"rendered":"Reinstated Subnautica 2 Dev Says Krafton&#039;s Release Date Announcement Was Potentially &quot;Damaging&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1837\/18375603\/4668791-subnautica2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s become a recurring theme, but the legal drama between the leaders of Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds and its parent company Krafton isn&#8217;t over. Lawyers for the reinstated CEO Ted Gill and founders Charlie Cleveland, and Max McGuire say Krafton set Subnautica 2&#8217;s early access release without consulting them.<\/p>\n<p>According to Game File, the legal team for Gill, Cleveland, and McGuire filed a complaint with the court alleging that Krafton&#8217;s announcement potentially damaged &#8220;the game and [sowed] additional confusion among the Subnautica community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letter to the court goes on to note that Unknown Worlds studio head Steve Papoutsis had no authority to make the Subnautica 2 early-release announcement because it came after Gill was reinstated to his CEO position following a recent ruling. It further contends that Krafton&#8217;s announcement occurred without the &#8220;significant marketing activity, fanfare, and community coordination&#8221; that would have normally accompanied such news. The filing also suggests that Krafton purposefully leaked the memo and later confirmed it in defiance of the earlier court order.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/reinstated-subnatica-2-dev-says-krafton-cant-choose-early-release-date\/1100-6538914\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become a recurring theme, but the legal drama between the leaders of Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds and its parent company Krafton isn&#8217;t over&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4058,752,4140,18310,18579,18580,18578,563,9961],"class_list":["post-37807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-announcement","tag-date","tag-dev","tag-krafton039s","tag-potentially","tag-quotdamagingquot","tag-reinstated","tag-release","tag-subnautica","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}