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Change, Thursday, March 23: ZA/UM studio has issued a respond to Robert Kurvitz’s and Sander Taals’ feedback.

The Disco Elysium maker reiterated that Kender admitted that the lawsuit change into faulty on his fragment. It said, “To boot to, as fragment of a court assert, he additionally paid the licensed charges for CEO Ilmar Kompus, who needed to answer that now-withdrawn claim.”

ZA/UM provides, “The utilization of crucial parts delight in ‘looting,’ ‘stolen cash,’ and ‘crime’ originate for riveting reading but are far from actuality. The precise hurt to the studio is now no longer from some fictional ‘looting,’ but reasonably from Mr. Kurvitz and Mr. Taal, whereas employed by the studio, refusing to originate their jobs, constructing a toxic situation of labor, demeaning colleagues, and making an are trying to misappropriate Studio IP.”

Moreover, the studio defined that Kurvitz and Taal are welcome to allege these info in court.

Change, Thursday, March 16: Robert Kurvitz and Sander Taal own issued a response to ZA/UM licensed dispute and own described the matter as “deeply misleading” as a straight concerned event.

In an announcement despatched to GamesIndustry.biz, Kurvitz and Taal (the latter being an alias for Aleksander Rostov, in step with ZA/UM) said the clicking free up is fraudulent in more than one areas. The pair have they’re the final minority shareholders of the studio.

The developers defined, “The press free up implies that our employment claims against the studio were withdrawn for lack of evidence. They were now no longer. We scrutinize our dismissal as fragment of a better advertising and marketing and marketing campaign against us and will pursue licensed alternatives accordingly.”

The commentary provides that they disagreed with Kender admitting the lawsuit he withdrew in December 2022 change into faulty.

“Kender’s lawsuit change into in step with the misuse of ZA/UM’s funds (€4.8 million) by the majority shareholders [Ilmar Kompus and Tõnis Haavel] to enhance their very delight in stake in the firm. Within the clicking free up, Kompus and Haavel admit to this misuse, arguing handiest that the cash has been ‘paid again to ZA/UM,’ ” the duo defined.

“Paying again stolen cash, on the quite a lot of hand, does now no longer undo the crime; right here, it does now no longer undo the majority that Kompus and Haavel own illegally acquired in ZA/UM.”

Moreover, they described that, in incompatibility to Kender, they would well now no longer be silenced in this ongoing licensed dispute.

“Unlike Kender, now we own now no longer participated in the looting of ZA/UM, and Kompus and Haavel haven’t any power over us.”

Original Story, Tuesday, March 14: The ongoing licensed dispute between Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM and the game’s producer Kaur Kender has been resolved.

ZA/UM studio has supplied that ex-staffer Kender has repaid all debts owed to it.

Moreover, per a court assert, Kender has repaid CEO Ilmar Kompus for licensed charges from a lawsuit that change into at closing withdrawn again in December. Moreover, he’s divested all his shares in the video games firm.

“I am thankful for the years of have faith and cooperation with the team, which made Disco Elysium a a hit mission,” said Kender. “After leaving my full-time characteristic, I filed a lawsuit which I spotted, after seeing the info, change into faulty.”

The news comes after a series of claims surfaced against the Disco Elysium maker from Kender, and ZA/UM shareholders emerged in the direction of the tail stop of 2022.

In October 2022, it change into reported that three key creators, Helen Hindpere, Robert Kurvitz, and Aleksander Rostov, left the firm “involuntarily.”

ZA/UM Studio says both Kurvitz and Rostov own dropped their “unfair dismissal” claims attributable to lack of evidence.

Nevertheless, the firm says it continues to face a “series of baseless allegations from inclined workers” and expects more claims to “give design underneath licensed and correct scrutiny.”

Later in the month, a lawsuit change into filed against the studio by Telomer, a firm that incorporated Kurvitz – author of the Disco Elysium novel and designer of the game – as a board member.

In November 2022, a lawsuit submitting alleged that Kompus spent €4.8 million ($5.1 million) in firm funds to achieve a majority fraction of the studio.

Following Kender’s swimsuit withdrawal against Tütreke, the ZA/UM’s majority shareholder, Kompus and Tütreke paid €4.8 million ($5.1 million) again to ZA/UM.

“As this transaction shows, originate discussions are the reliable technique to optimistic up misunderstandings and variations, especially when it be for the earnings of the team,” said Kompus.

“We own approached this with the collective ardour of ZA/UM and our not likely team in mind, and we’re happy to own reached a full resolution.”

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