It's probably a miracle that the original game released at all, but still.

THE HAM SANDWICH PEOPLE ONCE AGAIN PROVE THEMSELVES INCAPABLE OF ADVANCED THOUGHT AND EFFICIENT PLANNING, SQUANDERING THEIR PATHETIC LIVES WITH THE AL-GUL AND POTATO

Man I fucking hate Estonia

Far too on the nose that capitalists ended up owning and destroying this series.

The whole history of ZA/UM, the original company, not this zombie husk, was that it was a group of friends coming up with their own ideas for a fictional universe. It really shows in DE that it was essentially a labor of love done by a small group, and it's completely different from any other modern game. This wasn't enough for the vampires who can't appreciate anything that isn't made from the ground up to be a money making machine, so they just had to take it over. "Wow, a new popular IP, how about a TV show on Amazon?"

oh no, capitalists trying to shamelessly capitalize on the ideological product of their natural adversaries, yet failing to consider that words meant as weapons might be unwieldy or downright dangerous to handle for the target of their attack?

hm. well then

Most prescient video game.

Was it already known that the Disco Elysium sequel had been canned back in 2022?

Aside from that, I dont know what the fuck they are up to if they have a third Disco Elysium "IP" related project in the works now, after cancelling an actual sequel plus an expansion, whats left, a card game?

lmao wasnt counting on it coming out after the hostile takeover shitshow.

You would think this is the simplest thing in the world. A game makes a bunch of money? Throw more investment at the people who made it until it reaches the "police academy threshold", then drop it. No need for all this corporate takeover nonsense where you burn the creators, that just jacks up your risk for no reason.

I didn't realize they were working on an expansion. Probably for the best, considering the new owners.

Really hoping Kurvitz is working on something. Preferably at least a "spiritual sequel". Does anyone know if there were any updates on him being able to get the rights back?

Also wanna highlight this part of the quote right after.

They also said “I don’t think women were treated the same and that their work wasn’t as valued.”

Big fucking shock, great job of that shitass documentary to let the remaining writers specifically try and smear Helen Hindpere as incompetent and lazy, while not questioning them in the slightest about the claims from Helen as well as producer Yuan Zhang-Taal(only two women in the documentary btw) who say that Kaur Kender and Tonis Haavel both verbally abused Helen as well as also ran a campaign of attempting to undermine her credibility towards her coworkers.

It is prime tragicomedy in a sense that communist game devs from a post-Soviet state got cheated by literally the first convicted white-collar criminal in post-Soviet Estonia.

Of all the money men to go with they picked the guy who did a speed run on fraud after the fall.

I'm curious about whether or not they would have retconned Sacred and Terrrible Air. In the church dance party scene La Revacholiere implies Harry can possibly prevent Revachol getting nuked in the world war Innocence Ambrosius kicks off somehow - oddly noncommittal considering how much of Disco seems intended to contextualize Sacred.

All of this is bullshit but I don't want a disco Elysium expansion. It's fine as it is. I don't want a sequel or prequel or anything else in that universe. I know there is other stuff in thar universe in novel.form.or whatever but it's a really powerful singular experience that works best at least for me that way. I don't want more Disco Elysium, it did what it artistically set out to do and hit way harder than anyone could predict. I like it too much to want more.

I thought itd at least last long enough to make a new worse thing

Well well well, who would have thunk it

Remember the hackjob "investigative piece" People Make Games made about the ZA/UM dispute, where they heavily relied on the money mens narrative about Kurvitz being bad a business? Do you think those fucking dogs ever sit down and re-evaluate their bullshit?

The historic opportunity for a sequel has passed. It will not come back any more. However hard I try, whatever I do.

I suspect it was tanked on purpose. Controversial I know.

The devs mentioned how they were inspired by True Detective. Perhaps the executives became too enveloped by the capitalist destruction of Disco Elysium that they can’t help but project it onto their own business you can almost smell the psychosphere!