Following a year of acrimonious legal tussling and a settlement agreeing to pay bonuses to Unknown Worlds developers, Krafton has now pledged to turn the Subnautica series into a "franchise IP" amid confirmation Subnautica 2 has surpassed 5m sales. Read more

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  Following a year of acrimonious legal tussling and a settlement agreeing to pay bonuses to Unknown Worlds developers, Krafton has now pledged to turn the Subnautica series into a "franchise IP" amid confirmation Subnautica 2 has surpassed 5m sales. Read more
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  Subnautica 2 publishers Krafton may have had to pay Unknown Worlds a massive earn-out, after losing a farcical courtroom battle with ousted studio execs, but they're tickled pink by the ocean survival game's sales. According to Krafton's latest quarter-year financials, Subnautica 2 has sold over five million units since the early access launch. They're now trumpeting its potential to become "our second franchise IP" after PUBG, in the words of head of investor relations Sophie Lee, which indicat