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Fired Disco Elysium devs allege fraud at Studio ZA/UM, say “civil and criminal charges are on the table"That’s a spicy meatball
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Image credit:ZA/UM
Image credit:ZA/UM
Just over two weeks ago I predictedthe ZA/uM situation would only get messier, so slap my face and call me Mystic Meg.Disco Elysium’s game director Robert Kurvitz and art director Aleksander Rostov have, at least partially, offered up their side of the story on why they were fired from Disco dev studio ZA/UM in a Medium post titled ‘TO FANS OF DISCO ELYSIUM, CONCERNING THE SITUATION AT ZA/UM’. Short answer is: they allege fraud.
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Kurvitz and Rostov, who say they refrained from speaking out until now due to both their own mental health and consideration for those still working at ZA/UM, claim they were excluded from daily operations as soon as Kompus and Haavel took over. They also allege they were fired within weeks of asking for documents and financial data.
Kurvitz and Rostov further allege that this fraud was perpetrated with “support” from Kaur Kender (who they describe only as “another minority shareholder”, but he’s also a writer who helped Kurvitz self-publish the novel the Disco Elysium setting is based on).
