Former Deep Sea Trek 2 development team leadership decides to sue the publisher

2025-07-16 23:53:50|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

The former leadership of Deep Sea Trek 2 developer Unknown Worlds has announced a breach of contract lawsuit against Krafton, and the controversy surrounding the project continues to ferment.

Today, controversy over Krafton's postponement of Deep Sea Trek 2, firing the studio's founder and a $250 million bonus continues.Krafton, the publisher who acquired Deep Sea Trek developer Unknown Worlds in 2021, issued a statement pointing the finger at the recently fired leadership, saying it "abandoned" the project.In response, a former leadership member, one of the studio's co-founders and now resigned, responded on social media that the three former executives would jointly file a breach of contract lawsuit against Krafton.

Former Unknown Worlds executives include two co-founders, Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire, as well as former CEO Ted Jill.Cleveland revealed on social media today that the three people have filed a lawsuit: "We have filed a lawsuit against Krafton, and the details will eventually be made public (at least most of them) - everyone deserves to know the complete story." Fighting a big company like Krafton is no easy task, so either the team is enthusiastic or the key details that can affect the legality of the lawsuit.

In the statement, Cleveland also spoke for other members of the team: "As for that performance bonus, it is completely untrue to say that I, Max and Ted want to take it all the time. I joined the industry because of love, not for wealth. We have always shared profits with the team, and the same is true when selling studios. It is certain that we will deal with this performance bonus as well." He turned off the comment function of the post, but as of press time, the post has received more than a thousand fans liked it.

The controversy began a few days ago, with Krafton's first statement today responding."We allocated about 90% of the performance bonus of up to $250 million to three former executives, hoping that they can demonstrate leadership and actively participate in the development of Deep Sea Trek 2," the statement released on its official website said. But the statement went on to say, "Unfortunate leadership has turned its back on the responsibilities that have been given to them."

The statement said the company had repeatedly asked the two co-founders to focus on Deep Sea Trek 2, but they never did, even saying that Max McGuire "chooses to focus on personal film projects."Krafton even said that "it is deeply betrayal of their behavior of letting down fans' trust" - this statement seems quite exaggerated from a company, especially when calling himself "our fans" to refer to "Deep Sea Trek" players, who are really confident.

Although the latest statements from Krafton and former leadership from Unknown Worlds have brought new progress to the incident, it is difficult to determine which side’s statement is the whole truth.If the details of the lawsuit are finally made public, we may be able to get a clearer understanding of the situation.

Ultimately, people hope that the dedicated development team of Deep Sea Trek 2 will get the promised reward.Krafton also mentioned this in his statement: "Krafton promises to provide fair and reasonable rewards to all the remaining Unknown Worlds employees who continue to work tirelessly for Deep Sea Trek 2 development... We reiterate that we will deliver on the promised reward." This sounds good, but there is no specific details, so it's not time to celebrate now.For now, we can only wait for more news - it seems that the day will not be too far away.

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