Disco Elysium creative lead Robert Kurvitz was quietly fired from ZA/UM in late 2021, files lawsuit against them

[Grauken]

The rumors I read were that Kurvitz was totally unmanageable and got kicked out by decision of his co-workers.

These days "totally unmanageable" often simply means "not a totally meek and submissive male". "Decision of his co-workers" is usually a euphemism for yeeted by HR after a single complaint from a woman with BPD, multiple piercings and a body count of over 300.

Maybe he pulled a John Romero

 

[AwesomeButton]

Given the "it no longer represents the ethos it was founded on" line
I would say the safest assumption is that the studio has grown more interested in profit and the new arrivals aren't the kind of people that those devs enjoyed working with

In that case, the Codex has been their home all along.

 

[Maxie]

congrats for ZAUM for joining Green Day in the silly and awkward attempt to push a punk product

 

[Egosphere]

Rostov iirc hasn't been updating either his art blog nor his artstation page for ages. Strange drop off in productivity. He's in England now too, right?

Edit: oh he just posts all his stuff on twitter now. my bad.

 

[Maxie]

Rostov iirc hasn't been updating either his art blog nor his artstation page for ages. Strange drop off in productivity. He's in England now too, right?

Edit: oh he just posts all his stuff on twitter now. my bad.

obviously the visual novel they released was but a launch pad for the pinko brigade to ditch eastern europe where communism actually ruined everything for the greener pastures of the uk where it remains an intellectual fancy

 

[Reever]

It's pretty easy to go for the low-hanging fruit and say "Heh, commies" but by the looks of it, at least from their side of the story, they seem to have been pushed by investors out of the company for not agreeing with them. I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted more monetization schemes shoved into the sequel.

 

[Taxnomore]

When Disco Elysium 2 comes out and win prizes, the guys will take the stage and thank Adam Smith.

 

[Alienman]

20 bucks for the OST wasn't enough?

 

[Haba]

I doubt anyone was surprised to find out that we won't be getting a second DE. Just like back in the day it was pretty clear there wouldn't be a sequel for PS:T. And the making of both titles was similarly torturous.

Something something art. But it seems to be true.

 

[Egosphere]

Think DE didn't really need a sequel. They could have made a new game entirely, but that seems off the table now. Oh well.

 

[V_K]

more monetization schemes shoved into the sequel

NFTisco Ethereum?

 

[__scribbles__]

Think DE didn't really need a sequel.

Most genuinely good games don't. Just look at Dark Souls, Fallout, and Deus Ex.

Will I need to read the works of Marx to understand the plot? or can I play this and call myself a commie?

No to both. Call yourself a commie when you've read the Communist Manifesto and agree with it.

 

[AwesomeButton]

DE has a very potent setting, that has been developed for decades by talanted people. Ripe for being turned into a piece of woke shit, once a big hit comes out based on it. But the big hit must be created first.

 

[Egosphere]

Think DE didn't really need a sequel.

Most genuinely good games don't. Just look at Dark Souls, Fallout, and Deus Ex.

Will I need to read the works of Marx to understand the plot? or can I play this and call myself a commie?

No to both. Call yourself a commie when you've read the Communist Manifesto and agree with it.

Yes, all three would have been better off left as is tbh. The return to hewing so close to the souls formula in elden ring was probably a misstep from From as well. BB and Sekiro were both very good.

 

[AwesomeButton]

__scribbles__ ,

I'd like to inform you that after getting to know her, I feel strangely attracted to Joyce L. Messier, both intellectually and sexually.

You have been warned.

 

[vota DC]

Prime Junta wrote a blog post a couple of months ago talking about how happy he is to work at ZAUM. He may call himself a commie, but when the chips are down, he's a corporate bootlicker.

wait......so he faked his own death at the end of the game!

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Prime Junta wrote a blog post a couple of months ago talking about how happy he is to work at ZAUM. He may call himself a commie, but when the chips are down, he's a corporate bootlicker.

wait......so he faked his own death at the end of the game!

PJ was using the avatar of Rene, not the Deserter.

 

[vota DC]

But he sent his friend Gaston to say "Prime Junta died by heart failure" instead he Is happy and he Is working.

 

[AwesomeButton]

He actually planted a rumor on the codex that he is dead? I can't believe it

 

[Rafidur]

Ruh roh! Disco Elysium gacha? Battle royale? The possibilities are endless!

 

[AwesomeButton]

Ruh roh! Disco Elysium gacha? Battle royale? The possibilities are endless!

A roguelike mode for all those who whined about no combat system.

 

[__scribbles__]

Ruh roh! Disco Elysium gacha? Battle royale? The possibilities are endless!

 

[V_K]

A roguelike mode for all those who whined about no combat system.

 

[BanEvader]

Oh look, it's still not an RPG.

Something something art.

Disco Elysium is not an RPG, but it is a video game I guess, and as such can never qualify as art.

 

[TheSoul]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscoElysium/comments/xt4u1t/cant_have_nice_things_huh/

damn neoliberal capitalists that funded my gay space communism game.
I feel for the founders though. Imagine having everything you worked for taken away by a bunch of leeches.