this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
1830 points (97.7% liked)

Games

40546 readers
3025 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Rules

1. Submissions have to be related to games

Video games, tabletop, or otherwise. Posts not related to games will be deleted.

This community is focused on games, of all kinds. Any news item or discussion should be related to gaming in some way.

2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

No bigotry, hardline stance. Try not to get too heated when entering into a discussion or debate.

We are here to talk and discuss about one of our passions, not fight or be exposed to hate. Posts or responses that are hateful will be deleted to keep the atmosphere good. If repeatedly violated, not only will the comment be deleted but a ban will be handed out as well. We judge each case individually.

3. No excessive self-promotion

Try to keep it to 10% self-promotion / 90% other stuff in your post history.

This is to prevent people from posting for the sole purpose of promoting their own website or social media account.

4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

This community is mostly for discussion and news. Remember to search for the thing you're submitting before posting to see if it's already been posted.

We want to keep the quality of posts high. Therefore, memes, funny videos, low-effort posts and reposts are not allowed. We prohibit giveaways because we cannot be sure that the person holding the giveaway will actually do what they promise.

5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

Make sure to mark your stuff or it may be removed.

No one wants to be spoiled. Therefore, always mark spoilers. Similarly mark NSFW, in case anyone is browsing in a public space or at work.

6. No linking to piracy

Don't share it here, there are other places to find it. Discussion of piracy is fine.

We don't want us moderators or the admins of lemmy.world to get in trouble for linking to piracy. Therefore, any link to piracy will be removed. Discussion of it is of course allowed.

Authorized Regular Threads

Related communities

PM a mod to add your own

Video games

Generic

Help and suggestions

By platform

By type

By games

Language specific

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

This looks less like heroes becoming villains and more like villains (who were always villains) tricking the hero and murdering them. Unknown World's founders and developers of the first game all got fired by the company that acquired them.

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Definitely died as heroes.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The founders are the villains of this piece as much as Krafton. They sold out for a big payday. This was all very predictable.

You’d have to really dense to think that Krafton is going to come along with half a billion dollars and just let things carry on as usual.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

They tempted the heroes with wealth beyond measure so that by the time they stab them in the back, nobody mourns.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They didn't sell out. That's a childish view.
They made one and a half games (Subnautica and the dlc turned full release), never made the direct sequel, cut thier losses and cashed thier checks.

If they sold out they'd still be on the dev team, making micro transactions for the corpo.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They literally sold out. They sold the company. And, they sold it to a corporation whose portfolio is littered with microtransactions.

cut their losses

What losses? Were they not profitable?

and cashed their checks

Yeah, that’s the selling out part.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 0 points 19 hours ago

No. That's taking the money and run.
If they sold out they'd still be on the dev team, making micro transactions for the corpo.