{"id":3147,"date":"2026-07-01T21:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/krafton-settles-with-subnautica-2-developer-after-drawn-out-dispute-over-250-million\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:45:23","slug":"krafton-settles-with-subnautica-2-developer-after-drawn-out-dispute-over-250-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/krafton-settles-with-subnautica-2-developer-after-drawn-out-dispute-over-250-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Krafton settles with Subnautica 2 developer after drawn-out dispute over $250 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A screenshot from Subnautica 2.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Unknown Worlds Entertainment\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/SN2_Coral_Gardens_with_Friends_4K.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a lengthy legal dispute, Krafton has settled with its subsidiary Unknown Worlds Entertainment, which is developing <em>Subnautica 2<\/em>, and will pay bonuses to the studio&rsquo;s staff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-01\/krafton-agrees-to-pay-subnautica-2-bonuses-as-developer-s-ceo-resigns?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MjkxNTU0NywiZXhwIjoxNzgzNTIwMzQ3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSEkyRklLR0lGUEUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.WjwpXH3Q1yC4ZNFhKO0dYP4Ud-b1dypbv-REPIWQvaI&amp;leadSource=uverify%20wall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dispute began last year after Krafton pushed out Unknown Worlds&rsquo; cofounders, Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire, and its CEO, Ted Gill, ahead of a potential $250 million bonus for hitting certain financial goals that would have been shared with the studio. After the executives sued, a judge reinstated Gill as CEO in March, and <em>Subnautica 2<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/920668\/subnautica-2-early-access-release-date-unknown-worlds-krafton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally launched in early access in May<\/a>. The game passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2026\/05\/subnautica-2-early-access-sales-top-four-million\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four million copies sold in five days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Details  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/960354\/krafton-subnautica-2-settlement-bonuses-unknown-worlds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lengthy legal dispute, Krafton has settled with its subsidiary Unknown Worlds Entertainment, which is developing Subnautica 2, and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}