Why not? It’s not like the game/company is going away whether they ultimately win or lose in this legal battle.
This is a legal battle between the co-founders and Krafton. The co-founders were heavily involved with the first Subnautica, but for this second (third) game they were mostly just providing the overall direction for the game.
The way I see it, buying the game before September helps to take more money away from Krafton and give it to Unknown Worlds.
The company working on the game (Unknown Worlds) was bought by Krafton (famous for PUBG) with a contract where Krafton would give $250 million if Unknown Worlds hit certain sales targets by the end of 2025.
Subnautica 2 was supposed to release as early access in 2025. Krafton had run the numbers and estimates were putting Unknown Worlds around receiving almost all of the bonus payout that Krafton had promised. The CEO had buyers remorse and consulted with his lawyers who told him that there wasn’t much they could do. The CEO then consulted with ChatGPT and came up with a plan to kick out the leadership of Unknown Worlds (the co-founders) and delay the release of Subnautica 2.
The plan was to push the narrative that Unknown Worlds was forcing the game to be released as early access before it was really ready for that. Also the leadership of Unknown Worlds would be blamed for not being involved enough in the game and for refusing to delay the game’s release to a more reasonable date.
It worked for a bit, the playerbase was split on Discord. Many took sides one way or another with some players seeing through these actions as being related to the $250 million payout.
The courts recently ruled to restore the former Unknown Worlds’ CEO to his position and to extend the contract’s deadline by 9 months (September 15, 2026). Krafton had an internal goal to release the game by May of 2026 and Unknown Worlds is sticking with that schedule. Krafton is no longer listed as the publisher of Subnautica 2 on Steam. The overall court case is still ongoing.
What exactly was the error you were getting when trying to install the games?
Could it have been something like a missing DLL that you would normally have from installing almost anything else on those machines at the time?
I’ve also noticed that my old game collection runs much better on Linux (using wine) than it does on Windows with compatibility enabled.
The decision does not apply to every game, instead the courts would have to look at each game to see if loot boxes would be considered gambling or not.
From the article:
The Supreme Court of Austria has ruled that the loot boxes in the FIFA games do not constitute gambling as they do require some skill.
GamesMarkt reports that the justices in Vienna have decided that the specific game mechanic in FIFA Ultimate Team is not gambling, but they also state that loot boxes can be gambling. To be specific, loot boxes and the games they are part of need to be taken together on this matter.
Also works with Arbok -> “Kobra”
The Lazarus facilities in Star Citizen have a constant irradiated electromagnetic storm around them. If you fly too deep (past the facility), your ship will be disabled and you’ll crash. You can take a tram deeper into the storm and you’ll start to receive radiation damage. So you’ll either want a special protective suit, or take refuge inside of facility buildings every now and then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OzfPaUWYpY
On this particular planet, your ship can also get hit by stray bolts of lightning (a rare occurence) while flying around any storm . It will shut your ship down for a short time.
On some parts of planets, the weather is cold enough to freeze you (if you’re not wearing the right protection).
Some planets are very hot and will kill you if you stay too long outside without protection.
There’s an underground prison on a hot moon that you can escape from. If you don’t get to a vehicle in time, you’ll die from the heat (or lack of oxygen).