'The original devs got screwed out of the rights"?

[IGV]

"Probably the greatest game ever made, but you should pirate it- the original devs got screwed out of the rights by a band of corporate raiders."

Any backround to this, than just a blunt statement/claim?

[Space is the Place]

It´s true, although a little bit simplified. If you are feeling adventurous there´s plenty of videos and interviews filled with "he sais, she sais" arguments among two groups of former devs.

That being said, I think using that as an excuse to play Jack Sparrow... not so sure. Listen creators of games are fired, they change companies, they don´t get residuals from remakes or newer versions of the old thing... This happens a lot in the industry, this is not the only game where the money you pay doesn´t go to the original creator team, in fact unless it´s an indie dev most chances are it won´t. It´s disgusting, and we should all hope the industry changes for the better... but not paying it´s not the answer, specially if you want to play it. Even if the original devs do not get a cent of that sale, this is still their game, it´s their portfolio and resume all in once, if you want them to ever make another game, the good publicity and sales of Disco Elysium can only work towards that. Although in this case it´s hard to know, as no matter where you get your tale of what happens, it seems several of the people in charge created a pretty toxic enviorement.

[skullymex]

It's pretty complicated, but afaik the 3 original creators who lead the project got ♥♥♥♥♥♥ over pretty bad by the company. Ofc there's other people who worked on the project who are still with ZA/UM, artists and programmers and such. As an artist myself, I'm heartbroken over the fact that the people who breathed life into this game won't get to work with the IP anymore, even though they clearly wanted to.

[IGV]

Originally posted by IGV:

Originally posted by Space is the Metal Mail-Man:

It´s true, although a little bit simplified. If you are feeling adventurous there´s plenty of videos and interviews filled with "he sais, she sais" arguments among two groups of former devs.

That being said, I think using that as an excuse to play Jack Sparrow... not so sure. Listen creators of games are fired, they change companies, they don´t get residuals from remakes or newer versions of the old thing... This happens a lot in the industry, this is not the only game where the money you pay doesn´t go to the original creator team, in fact unless it´s an indie dev most chances are it won´t. It´s disgusting, and we should all hope the industry changes for the better... but not paying it´s not the answer, specially if you want to play it. Even if the original devs do not get a cent of that sale, this is still their game, it´s their portfolio and resume all in once, if you want them to ever make another game, the good publicity and sales of Disco Elysium can only work towards that. Although in this case it´s hard to know, as no matter where you get your tale of what happens, it seems several of the people in charge created a pretty toxic enviorement.

Bought weeks ago. While no reason not to ask. They got not much anyway. Ok.

[Dopey Shepard]

I am a white sailor of the high seas and I had to buy to feel better about myself, oh, and to trigger achievements happening on Steam. No reason not to try to 100% this one, whilst having an actual legit platform to do so

[Sam]

They just got into a legal kerfuffle that might as well be a situation you could face in the game

[Dopey Shepard]

Originally posted by Sam:

They just got into a legal kerfuffle that might as well be a situation you could face in the game

Your face, however, leaves much to be desired (avatar)

[AN]

One of the members of the original collective released an open letter back shortly after it hapened, you can look that up.