Kerbal Space Program 2 Was Murdered.

The ex Creative Director of Kerbal Space Program has broke his silence, and much more has happened following the disastrous launch.

00:00 Take Two Should Be Ashamed
00:33 Whose Game Is It Anyway?
03:39 They Never Stood A Chance...
07:41 Kitten Space Agency, The Game Set Up To Win
09:47 The Fate of KSP2

Sources:

[JensenBooton]

They were not only forced to reuse code from the first game, but at the same time they were forbidden from even talking to the people who wrote that code.

[thomasboys]

There's a bitter irony that KSP2 crashed and burned while it was being launched.

[DeadBaron]

The fact Harvester, the original creator, had no idea it was being created and they never worked with any of the original creators were major red flags

[Creslin]

It's insane to me that Take Two would look at Kerbal Space Program and think "here's an IP we can use to sell toys and micro transactions to the drooling masses!"

KSP is like the most technical, in the weeds, super niche game I've ever played. It's a game for math nerds and wannabe astrophysicists. There is no way that KSP would ever be a mass appeal game and it's so telling that TTWO was clueless enough to think it could be.

[ScytheNoire]

Steam needs to take the game off the store, refund everyone, and charge back Take-Two.

[Giantwaspface]

I'm damn sure a bunch of clueless executives at Take Two saw the Kerbals, thought "They look like Minions!", and the rest is history.

[xraze]

So basically, we find out who actually owns KSP 2 by blatantly violating its copyright in some way and see who sends documents?

[stormtempterf]

The moment the publisher killed the original studio because they didn't want to have a fair contract, knowing that they could then swoop in and rehire most of the team to work in their scab studio replacement was the moment I walked away from ever being interested in KSP2.

The publisher killed the studio to save a buck, and now they have a failed product. I wish they faced consequences for that corporate malfeasance but I know they'll just get a tax write off and find some other studio to gut and plunder.

[nekogod]

Charging $50 for an early access release with almost no content (beyond a slightly higher res copy of the first part of the first game) was a huge red flag, so glad my BS meter was buzzing and I decided to hold out and see what happened.

[caseygoddard]

Calling KSP2 "abandonware" would be more accurate than calling it "early access".

[LordSesshaku]

Take Two somehow managed to completely destroy an entire franchise. I'll never forgive them for that. I just hope that KSA is a sucess and that somehow, they'll eventually get the KSP license. Because Kerbals deserve better than oblivion.

[ethanblanke]

The fact that they wanted KSP2 to be some flashy merch-selling AAA game goes to show just how out of touch the corporate overlords were with the original fanbase.

[ZexMaxwell]

This explains SO MUCH on why there was push back from the devs to the community on fixing the "kraken" and noodle ships. they reused old code and no one knew how to fix it.

[Captain_Razor_]

"Take Two Give None" should be the real name.

[Cheater]

KSP2 was murdered
KSP had murders commited in it
Clear messaging on which game is better

[BoredPodcaster]

Nonsense like this REALLY needs to stop in the industry.
At no point should you be charging people full price for an unfinished build of a game, and certainly not when the rights holder is UNKNOWN.

[TheCrazyCapMaster]

Take Two aiming for a flashy shiny game over a complex technical one really feels like they didn’t bother to understand what they had with KSP… hidden under the hilariously bouncy Kerbals is a very robust, surprisingly realistic space simulator. It IS a technical game, so a pitch that wants to focus on that aspect is one that will be more likely to satisfy and grow the existing playerbase. At the very least, it shows that the folks behind that pitch understand the players and the game, which is the most important step forward.

EDIT: changed “what they’d made with KSP” to “what they had with KSP”, I wasn’t aware they were latecomers who only bought KSP, didn’t really make it.

[TheNightquaker]

The fact that KSP2 is still being sold for full price even during the Steam Winter Sale is insane

[jijonbreaker]

I've legit been thinking I've just been insane for years because nobody ever remembers the complete fuckery that was the forced bankruptcy of Star Theory. And any time I've brought it up as the game having been doomed from the start, people look at me like I'm crazy.

[moonasha]

forcing them to use old code is just ... insane. I can't even imagine that. Especially since KSP was made by inexperienced devs.