"Every corporation wants a piece of the fortune."

Tuulik even had a message for his former colleagues (“comrades”) at ZA/UM, including Kurvitz and Rostov:

“To all other former respected comrades (Kurvitz, Rostov, everyone) – long time no hear, but we would love for you to join the struggle as well: time to roll up our sleeves and start building communism!”

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    2 months ago

    I don't really remember that tune coming out of Tuulik when he was still holding on to ZA/UM during the documentary lol.

    Pretty big shift from meekly suggesting that maybe Kurvitz could get a license to keep writing in the Elysium world.

    But whatever, they are making video games, time will tell if it will be interesting or not.

    • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      To be fair, that stance was probably from before he was fired.

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        2 months ago

        Well yeah, but it's more about the principle of it, he's supposed to be a ZA/UM old guard and that was part of his value in being in the documentary, so it's not as if being fired should be a radicalizing moment.

        Basically I think he appears a bit too flexible, the radical rhetoric comes off leaning more towards branding than deep principle.

    • CriticalOtaku [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      • ZA/UM itself, or it's shambling corpse.

      • Red Info. The company Kurvitz and Rostov founded after they left ZA/UM, funded by Netease. Unfortunately we don't know much about what they are doing, other than that they have a project. Understandably the legal battle for the rights of Disco Elysium probably came first.

      • Longdue. Unfortunately we know the least about this studio, just some concept art and some PR speak.

      • Dark Math. This studio has a trailer for a game that's um... a little familiar, it's also associated with Kaur Kender who was one of the people involved in the shenanigans that went down at ZA/UM. Article

      • and now Summer Eternal, who don't have a trailer or proof of concept or pretty much anything except a manifesto (and are therefore the true inheritors of the crown, imo). That said, they're explicitly set up as a worker's co-op with a structure that's designed to prevent a hostile takeover, so it seems some hard lessons have been learnt

      The scuttlebutt is that ZA/UM's non-compete clause for their ex-staff expired today, which is the reason for all these announcements, but that's speculation that can't be corroborated so take it with a pinch of salt.

      • Bisexual_Cookie [comrade/them, any]
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        2 months ago

        thx! :) oh the non-compete clause thing would make a lot of sense, i was wondering why it was all happening so close to each other. Summer eternal does seem promising!