Disco Elysium creators 'fired on false premises' claims Studio ZA/UM founding member

pcgamer.com:

Last week came the news that several key figures behind Disco Elysium, arguably the best game you can play on PC, had left developer Studio ZA/UM. The news came via a blog post from Martin Luiga, a founding member of the studio, who said that Robert Kurvitz, Helen Hindpere, and Aleksandr Rostov had all left: Kurvitz and Hindpere being the driving forces of Disco Elysium's lauded script, with Rostov's impressionistic art style a defining feature.

Now Luiga's said a little more. «It happened late last year,» he told Gamepressure in an interview. «They were fired on false premises and the entire ordeal has been very traumatizing for both them and people close to them.»

Luiga is apparently subject to an NDA that means he can't talk about certain stuff. «Anyhow, I am super worried,» says Luiga, «but I am still not disclosing all information I have, and there is also information which I don't have, and I am rather sure that we will not have the full picture before the final judgment.

»I think already the fact that three prominent figures have been fired, while the fanbase would expect them to go on, is vital information, and it hadn't been held a complete secret either. The thing is, I love truth, beauty, and justice."

Luiga's mention of a 'final judgment' suggests that there is legal action going on which is yet to be made public, which in the case of people being fired under false premises one would perhaps expect. And yes Disco Elysium fans at this point are probably wondering how ironic all this is going to get. The game itself is hyper-critical of capitalist structures, the petit bourgeois, and the compromises that people make in their lives to accommodate such systems.

«I even see it as fair, if not entirely