There will never be another "normal" Disco Elysium news story.
    • CleverOleg [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      17 days ago

      I think this Moola guy is associated with Kaur Kender, someone who is not a leftist and didn’t have much at all to do with the game other than screw Robert Kurvitz out of ZA/UM and his IP. These are the crooks who stole the game, in other words.

      • CredibleBattery [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        17 days ago

        It’s uhh, fucking strange. While Kaur Kender did have something to do with the hostile takeover and looting of the company (possibly a fuck ton), he and the two main culprits, two estonian finance mobsters, Toni Havel and Ilmar Kompus, had some sort of falling out after the takeover was succesful, which ended up in a lawsuit between them (it was later settled or dropped), leading to Kender joining a different off-shoot studio called Dark Math Games (he recently resigned as Director, but his brother Heiti Kender ended up in the same seat afterwards).

        If Argo’s recent tweets are correct, it would seem that Moola from Longdue if suing both Argo’s Summer Eternal and the Kenders’s Dark Math at the same time as ZAUM, for ‘‘entirely different reasons’’ they both claim.

        on the other hand, Kurvitz and the core team are still MIA.

          • Huldra [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
            5·
            17 days ago

            Yeah he and Rostov, and I think Helen Hindpere too, have a studio called Red Info.

            It basically exists as some legal documents and investments as far as the public is concerned.

        • CleverOleg [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          16 days ago

          I believe Kurvitz is involved in a project in London called “Red Info” but there’s no information about it at all. He’s also currently involved in the “original” lawsuit so it’s certainly possible at the end of the day that Kurvitz will get ZA/UM (or what’s left of it) and Disco Elysium back. There was a woman on the DE sub a couple months back who was at a restaurant in Estonia where Kurvitz was eating with his mom. She overheard him say the lawsuit trial was “going well”. She asked him for a picture with her and he obliged, so it’s not like she made up the story from whole cloth.

  • CredibleBattery [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    17 days ago

    Woah, this is super fucking odd. Before this there wasnt really any indication that Longdue had anything to do with ZAUM, but now they’re launching lawsuits too? against the same targets?? the strangest thing here is that Gooner Elysium from Dark Math Games (kaur kender’s project) is getting lumped in by the lawsuits with Summer Eternal and Argo Tuulik (if Argo’s posts are true)

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    17 days ago

    lt-dbyf-dubois YOU - “I know who Argo Tuulik is, but who is this ‘Riaz Moola’ guy?”

    steban STEBAN, THE STUDENT GAMER - “Only ZA/UM’s most trusted lieutenant, the Evangelist of the Revolution, and the founding father of the successor studio Longdue.”

    steban STEBAN, THE STUDENT GAMER - “He also happens to be the greatest communist developer after Tuulik himself. It was Moola who first postulated the existence of ideological plasm, which forms the basis of Disco Elysium-like gameplay.”

    A BRIEF LOOK AT DISCO-ELYSIUM SUCCESSORS - Known to his numerous admirers as the ‘Evangelist of ZA/UM’ and to his even-more-numerous enemies as the ‘Apocalyptic Shrike’, Riaz Moola remains one of the most controversial and fascinating figures to emerge in the years of the ZA/UM Revolution, second only to Argo Tuulik himself.

    A BRIEF LOOK AT DISCO-ELYSIUM SUCCESSORS - During his unparalleled life, he helped develop a revolutionary game at one company and founded a new studio after the ZA/UM Revolution. Along the way, he committed some of the most notorious war crimes in an era famed for its atrocities.

    de-encyclopedia ENCYCLOPEDIA - Oh, right. During the disastrous development of successor titles to Disco Elysium, Moola personally ordered up to 12,000 ZA/UM prisoners of war impaled on sharpened spruce trees in the Samaran backcountry. Thereafter his opponents began referring to him as the ‘Apocalyptic Shrike’.

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    17 days ago

    Apparently Argo worked at one of those successor studios before going on to fund his new one, and something in that work or agreement seems to be the alleged problem.

    ZA/UM separately alleges shit like copyright infringement, which I would assume is some shit like accusing him of repurposing material from the cancelled games and DLC he worked on.