How does a person this fucking stupid become a CEO of any company? Jesus fucking Christ.
Because we don’t promote those with worthwhile talents, the grifters find their way in and fail upwards.
They wouldn’t be CEO unless they had the parasitic impulse. If they wanted to make things or facilitate people there are way better positions to do that from
Dad was rich probably
Privilege. That’s the entire thing. Meritocracy is a lie.
Always has been.
Partly that, and partly the fact that the system rewards psychopathic attitudes and a machiavellian willingness to stomp on whoever you have to in order to get your way. It’s the reason why CEOs and executives exude such a disproportionate level of anti-social behaviour.
That seems a lot of money for a small game
They were trying to do a Elon Musk/Twitter and bullshit their way from the beginning.
What an absolute twatwaffle.
Just further proof CEO is a position usually filled with idiots with no moral compass.
He always had a full legal team at his disposal. But he not only didn’t consult them, he completely ignored their warnings, fully trusting the sycophancy machine.
That’s because he doesn’t have to pay ChatGPT for a consultation, I’d wager.
CEOs are in for a shock in the near future. The board would LOVE to eliminate their bloated salaries, and ChatGPT can actually do their job. Unlike the janitor.
Now, I know a big part of their scam is being on each other’s boards and backing each other up, to keep their own salaries high and maintain power. But… nobody gets to be CEO without screwing over many people, and all of those victims don’t just disappear into the ether. They have more enemies than many of them even realize.
The board would LOVE to eliminate their bloated salaries
“The board” is typically made up of the CEOs and other C-suite denizens of other companies, so it’s in their interest to approve the bloated compensation packages because then their own bloated compensation packages get approved. Corporations are a true circle jerk in the finest sense of the term.
Next he sues chatGPT, not openAi, but the LLM itself.
Omg you’re kidding. This can’t be real can it?
It is haha, was heavily reported when it first was revealed!
So its unethical to spend money on subnautica 2?
No, the devs are getting the payout they deserve.
Do the parasites get any cut? I don’t want to give them a penny. More important than paying artists I prefer to pirate or not play if the undeserving take a penny
The stipulation is that if enough people buy the game Krafton loses hundreds of millions. We’re talking a range from 145 million $ to 250 million $, provided the game sells between 5 to 12 million units. At 5 million units they will have made roughly 149,950,000 $ — which Krafton immediately loses all of.
This is all readily available information and has been common knowledge in the Subnautica community for months.
It’s like 3$ a copy the publisher is still getting $20+ of revenue per copy. It’s much better pirating it and donating $10 to the devs. Tjat way the publisher gets zero snd the devs get triple.
The game will need to sell 11.9 million copies at 29.99 in order for Krafton to break even.
‘Loses all of’ so they get zero cut of any of sales after of just that how much are you inferring how much are you citing exact words
Use commas, you can look at the information yourself — all I know is they’re getting fined almost exactly what the game will make between a minimum of 145 million to 250 million.
Edit: the numbers work out to Krafton needing to sell 11.9 million copies in order to break even. The devs are getting paid, and Krafton is getting fucked.
It’s the opposite, in my opinion. Krafton is the publisher, but right now their name is no longer on the game. So the Developers are self publishing, it looks like. But since Krafton fucked up so royally, the ruling is that if the game sells X amount of copies (I forgot the actual amount) before September, the developers still get the $250m. And Krafton gets no further say in the game and has no further say in the developer team.
Huh. Maybe. I’m iffy about courts ruling in favor of labor feels lik3 a trap
Do they still get any cut of profits because if so fuck no
It is so unbelievably ludicrous why these giants feel so compelled to keep gaining as much money as they can when they could already retire several lifetimes’ worth. Greed is truly a mental illness.
power corrupts
I don’t get it. If I somehow ended up with enough money to not have to work the rest of my life I’d buy a decently nice house and and a newer sedan so that it’s reliable, keep working part time in my field because I genuinely love it, spend more time on my hobbies, and do all the traveling I’ve been dreaming of but too broke to do my entire life.
If I had a ludicrous amount of money I’d have a serious thought about how many normal people I could help and how and who I wanted to help. I’d love to set up a scholarship fund for adults going back to school (any school), but I’d also love to help adults in underdeveloped nations starting a business, and I’d love to work with medical charities, and I’d love to help underprivileged children get educated, and there’s so many things I’d love to do to help people’s lives get better.
Scheming on how to steal more money from ordinary people would be the last thing on my list!
That’s what everyone thinks they would do. A statistical analysis of lottery winners says otherwise. Most people when they get money go crazy spending and blow whatever extra money they get, thus needing even more money.
You need to keep in mind that that is not an analysis of a random sampling of the population, that is an analysis of people who are willing to play the lottery in the first place. By definition these are people bad with money and planning.
Exactly, and the billionaires are all people who took some crazy risk and actually won. There were dozens of nascent EV companies when musk invested in tesla, he just got lucky and now he’s a moron with a ketamine addiction and more money than anybody else.
Exactly, and the billionaires are all people who took some crazy risk and actually won.
The billionaires are all people willing to exploit and steal from others in order to hoard as much as they can. You cannot earn 1 billion dollars.
Luck is a factor, but with daddy’s money the can afford to roll those dice as often as they want until they get “lucky”.
I’m not going to pretend that I wouldnt do rich guy shit and try to constantly grow my wealth to some degree but at the very least Id make sure my employees fucking adored me and be the absolute gold standard of employers.
That’s why you’ll never have those options the only way togrt that much money us to exploit and steal and be a bastard
But that’s not true; Mark Cuban is legitimately not that bad as far as billionaires go. There are also the owner of Patagonia and some other truly incredible donors. There are people whose lead they could easily follow… and just aren’t…
My creepy uncle wasn’t bad as far as pedophiles go but he still deserved a wood chipper I used to think we could just dismantle money and watch them and let them have the same kinds of nice life everyone gets but they can’t they can’t be people again being that rich breaks something in them
What… kind of… I don’t understand your response. We were talking solely about the wealthy, not pedos, so I don’t know why you suddenly brought up your uncle out of nowhere. Also, do you mean by “dismantle money” the removal of money from society? That’s impossible; it’s a tool to manage greed, which is present in all. The severity of and social impact of it is what turns it into the level of a mental illness.
Too much money and power just corrupts the mind and I truly believe that only very few people can resist.
Is it too much money and power corrupts the mind, or is it a corrupt mind that seeks too much money and power?
You’re right, greed is a mental illness, and exactly the key mechanism here. It’s the same underlying thing as hoarding, for the like - miserly greedy, especially.
But there’s also this huge complicating factor of the sort of…spot on the spectrum one lands, usually at birth, between
no_resources_availableandall_resources_available.Human brains, as they grow into adults, normalize their sort of “home life” circumstances - any understanding of those circumstances - how those compare with broader and broader “others”, AKA how their growing up differs from other folks, and how that came to be?
By dint of biological development, the capacity for those thoughts, leaving aside merely hopeful exposure to them - that ability itself can only develop after the developmental points at which the burgeoning consciousness forms it’s baseline observations about what the world is. Ya dig?
It’s something a lot worse than just the hoarding flavor fixated on money. It’s mentally unhealable people raising people at such an extreme end of the
resources_availablespectrum as to make roughly all of them ~equivalently unhealable as a result. Generation after generation, worse and worse, just really baking in that “hole in one’s humanity” unwellness.Until ta-da! - something snaps, then a lotta things do, then a lotta extra heinous shit happens for a buncha years (by which I mean a lotta people suffer, die, and are forgotten), and eventually a whole lotta the world ends up with pretty different rubble and rules to try to reorganize around. Often some flavor of “second verse, same as the first” but yeah.
So IDK what to call it. We keep doing it, must be pretty cool stuff lol.
Every social revolution, bloodshed or not, has brought about either short-lived or very long-lived privileges (divorce, more racial equality, etc.).
Great point, we’re certainly due for more of that.
So should I now buy it or not?
I love Unknown Worlds since Natural Selection but absolutely despise Krafton.
Buy it until their sales numbers get to about 3 million units where sold where the devs bonus starts to cap out. Apparently the devs get $3.12 for every dollar in sales past around $70 million and their total bonuses cap out at $250 million.
If you really want to royally screw Krafton over while making sure the devs get the maximum payout, hoist the colors when they announce 3 million total units sold 🏴☠️
This should be in the description of the post. Thank you so much for sharing this!!
It’s honest to god a sickness and we need to treat it. These people are unwell
Me and my partner have been talking about this a lot. We need to start pathologizing billionaires. And much like Lithium treats depression, a different malleable metal has been known to be an effective treatment for Excess Resource Hoarding Disorder.
I am waiting. I heard the eula os absolutly ridiculous. I almost wonder if its that way to purposely tank sales
Have you bought the first Subnautica?
It still holds up extremely well today.
Note: If you have any fear of open water, or sharks, or anything. It’s more of a horror game
Yeah I played it. It is not about the game. I don’t want to give a single dime to Krafton.
So steal it.
I am waiting for Empress already
It was leaked 2 days before release, so a version is already out there. Mutliplayer didn’t work for it though, understandably.
It doesn’t use Denuvo and Empress retired months ago.
Fck, I didn’t know Empress retired.
She hadn’t done anything in a long time anyway.
Exactly pirate it and donate straight to the devs if you care that much. Makes no sense to pay a publisher to support the devs.
What?!?! The Subnautica people are the same who made Natural Selection?!??
I LOOOOVED Natural Selection!! I’d always play as an alien… creeping through the ceiling 🤣 The hive mind concept visualized through the “wall hack” was so well done, but the RTS element of the humans was also SUPER original and both sides contrasted each other perfectly
Yep, mainly Charlie Cleveland aka Flayra. Was very active in the forums and I also have donated to get the badge ingame.
Bonuses are not just salaries, they are the tokens of your appreciation. You don’t have to pay them if you’re not grateful for their work!
It’s like a tip! It’s actually disrespectful to tip coworkers soi really he was just showing them respect
Holy shit these greedy ass people need to just go the fuck away.
Fab
If they didn’t have the chat logs, would the CEO have won?
OOTL how did the chat log get revealed in the first place?
They were ordered to by the judge
He fired them under false accusations (of not working on the game and instead working on other projects) so no, don’t think so.
Yeah but what ppl did and what can be proven in court are not the same. If the chat logs were the proof then without them, who would have won the case?
iirc some of the devs had a hunch of what was going to happen and downloaded the source code before being locked out. That code will have had a .git folder with a neat list of everything anyone ever did regarding the project. And even without that there should still be ways.
Remember everybody, if you’re going to do fraud, don’t talk about it to your friendly neighborhood surveillance company!
Not unless you’re already rich enough to pay them off, at least!
Yes, then you can just use gmail to plan all your crimes and it will never have any consequences for you.
When the AI chatbot responded that the earnout would be “difficult to cancel,” the ruling read, Kim didn’t accept the answer. He pushed further—and the chatbot obliged with a detailed, multi-stage corporate takeover strategy dubbed “Project X.”
OMG, the text transformer did a text transformation task!
Project X, not at all childish or anything 😆
It’s also a great emotionally crushing movie starring Matthew Broderick training chimps to fly planes.
The kind of thing you’d see in a movie plot. You know, like the text that the text generation machine was trained on that matches this kind of situation.
Project X
Sounds like a teenager’s ambitious ideas lol.
Musk is obsessed with the letter X, he probably told grok to always use it,and that leaked to chatgpt because the plagiarism bots all plagiarise each other.
And then, this dork, unaware of such (and so many other things) read that shit and went “hell yeah, Project X? That’s great. I’m in, like a hacker, this is clearly the good stuff only someone like me can get it to do” 😂
And wow. He was right!
Well you have to admit, Project X sounds a lot cooler than Project C.
I wonder if he likes X so much, because X is only missing 90 angle arms to look like swastika.
Holy… I cannot believe that many people would bother to come to an unknown event. Unbelievable, lol. Thanks for sharing.
That should be jail time. Fuck that guy
silly you, jail time is for the poors
A boy a can dream right? This 45 year dream IS take abit long for my liking though
Why is no one using their full name? How do you embarrass anyone or hold them accountable if you didn’t even say their name?
Kim Chang-han
There can’t be that many CEOs of Krafton… it’s not really a mystery who it is
I have no interest in learning the names of every CEO. Publish the names when they are caught doing something shitty so everyone recognizes it as an asshole
Reduces friction and avoiding the need for looking things up.
