I had a contentious comment recently decrying the People Make Games documentary on Disco Elysium as being anti labor and pro capital. I posted another video on the subject, but the one covers my...
I had a contentious comment recently decrying the People Make Games documentary on Disco Elysium as being anti labor and pro capital. I posted another video on the subject, but the one covers my feelings in more detail. Check out the comments for PMG's response, as well. In my opinion, they didn't age well at all give Argo Tuulik's firing and the subsequent work done at Summer Eternal.
In short, my feelings are that known international financial criminal Toniz Haavel and his compatriot Ilmar Kompus stole the DE IP from its rightful owner, Robert Kurvitz. He wrote Sacred and Terrible Air before Disco Elysium had begun development. To my eyes, he has clear claim to the IP.
I believe this is further evidence by ZA/UM cancelling their game in the Elysium universe. My belief is that they thought they would win the, still ongoing, court case easily. When it seemed like they wouldn't, they pivoted to a new IP. Remember the lawsuit is simply to release basic documents on Kurvitz, Rostov, and Hindpere's employment like the contracts they signed. They haven't even begun to argue over the, speculatively, illegal matter of ZA/UM purchasing the IP from themselves.
I agree Kurvitz is probably a nightmare to work with. I imagine his firing was more than justified. I don't think that gives ZA/UM the right to block him from using the universe he created, which to me is the enormous failing of the PMG documentary. They conclude with "Kurvitz is as ass, and the legal case is too complicated for us to get into" which perfectly plays into the hand of the capitalists, namely Kompus, who they soft ball interviewed and actively helped in their ongoing smear campaign against Kurvitz et al.
I had a contentious comment recently decrying the People Make Games documentary on Disco Elysium as being anti labor and pro capital. I posted another video on the subject, but the one covers my feelings in more detail. Check out the comments for PMG's response, as well. In my opinion, they didn't age well at all give Argo Tuulik's firing and the subsequent work done at Summer Eternal.
In short, my feelings are that known international financial criminal Toniz Haavel and his compatriot Ilmar Kompus stole the DE IP from its rightful owner, Robert Kurvitz. He wrote Sacred and Terrible Air before Disco Elysium had begun development. To my eyes, he has clear claim to the IP.
I believe this is further evidence by ZA/UM cancelling their game in the Elysium universe. My belief is that they thought they would win the, still ongoing, court case easily. When it seemed like they wouldn't, they pivoted to a new IP. Remember the lawsuit is simply to release basic documents on Kurvitz, Rostov, and Hindpere's employment like the contracts they signed. They haven't even begun to argue over the, speculatively, illegal matter of ZA/UM purchasing the IP from themselves.
I agree Kurvitz is probably a nightmare to work with. I imagine his firing was more than justified. I don't think that gives ZA/UM the right to block him from using the universe he created, which to me is the enormous failing of the PMG documentary. They conclude with "Kurvitz is as ass, and the legal case is too complicated for us to get into" which perfectly plays into the hand of the capitalists, namely Kompus, who they soft ball interviewed and actively helped in their ongoing smear campaign against Kurvitz et al.